Papua New Guinea's government has finally passed the legislation required to establish a new upstream oil and gas regulator to replace the existing regulator which has for years been the subject ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, land tenure issues, and the high cost of developing infrastructure. The ...

Meanwhile, the Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Index (NEER) decreased by 0.77% MoM in February 2025 to a provisional value of 39.09 from 39.39 (revised) in Janaury 2025. On a yearly basis ...

This masthead can reveal the PNG government will bankroll a historic rugby league development – an ‘NRL Village’ to attract Australia’s elite talent to represent the code’s new club in ...

A major war game will be held outside of Australia for the first time, in a defence agreement with a close ally allowing a key military exercise to be held in Papua New Guinea. A portion of this ...

Mr Harvey has picked up slightly more than $10m worth of Mayur stock for a 6.7 per cent stake, investing via a vehicle named after one of his former racehorses, Velrosso. London-based Polus ...

A defence deal being forged between Australia and Papua New Guinea may signal Canberra’s bid to use the Pacific island nation as a base to keep a closer watch on Chinese naval activities in the ...

SYDNEY – Australia said on Feb 20 that it will strike a defence treaty with Papua New Guinea, bolstering ties with a Pacific state that has been courted persistently by China. The historically ...

For PNG, opening the door for its inaugural defence treaty is an indication that it views Australia as its preferred security partner into the future. Australia, for its part, has stepped up its game ...

On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might. By Melissa Kirsch Where were you in March of ...