Of the almost 7,000 languages currently spoken, some linguists estimate that between 50 and 90 percent of them will be ...

Indonesian authorities said Saturday the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region has been freed by separatist rebels.

Over 500 tribals in Rayagada district protest against the arrest of anti-mining activist Kartik Nayak, demanding his release amid concerns over proposed bauxite mining in the Sijamali hills.

The Kokoda Track is Australia’s special national monument in PNG to as well to fallen heroes as Gallipoli is in Turkey.

Operations at Barrick Gold's Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been suspended due to ongoing violence.

earned the exaltation as the father of modern ethnography and field research through his 1922 magnum opus “Argonauts of the ...

In his first general audience since returning from the longest international trip of his pontificate, the Pope expressed ...

Papua New Guinea has granted police emergency powers, including the use of lethal force, to contain the violence in Porgera.

In the general audience held today in St Peter's Square, Francis retraced the stages of the apostolic journey that in recent ...

A violent conflict between rival tribes over control of a gold mine in Papua New Guinea has resulted in at least 30 deaths, ...

Conflict between rival tribes in the Porgera Valley in Papua New Guinea over mining access intensified this weekend, killing ...

Tribal violence has again erupted in Papua New Guinea with at least 30 people killed in gun battles between rival tribes in PNGs remote central highlands. The unrest started in August when ‘illegal ...