Two international aid organizations have donated 500 life-startup kits to more than 350 internally displaced persons (IDP) in five highlands provinces. Recent floods and landslides…
Cocoa production in Morobe has been affected by heavy rain in the past few months, cocoa board regional manager Anton Ningi said. He said the…
Retailers in the capital of Eastern province Goroka are experiencing a drop in sales of as much as 50% for some products compared to previous…
The IPP industry group (IP3) said the energy sector in Papua New Guinea is in trouble with PNG Power still owing independent power producers (IPP)…
The central government launched a new vaccine storage facility in the capital of Central province Bautama on September 13. With the new storage, immunization will…
The police and military are struggling to cope with chronic tribal revenge killings among locals with high powered weapons in Porgera, Enga province. Reports from…
The bodies of two people, identified as a father and his son, were found at a swamp in the Gerehu residential area in National Capital…
The race to become Indonesia’s next foreign policy chief has intensified after Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi announced that she would be taking on a…
A total of 10,652 cases of child abuse were reported between January 1 and September 7, affecting at least 11,796 children, according to the Women’s…
Two earthquakes that struck Sukabumi regency in West Java on September 15 and 16 caused minor damage, according to the West Java Regional Disaster Mitigation…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed September 16 to ensure the morality police will no longer "bother" women, in remarks to the media on the second…
A man suspected of plotting to assassinate former US president Donald Trump was charged with federal gun crimes on September 16. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58,…
The United States on September 16 imposed new sanctions on Georgian officials for violence targeting pro-Western protesters who unsuccessfully sought to stop a new law…
Germany on September 16 expanded border controls to the frontiers with all its nine neighbours in hopes of curbing the flow of irregular migrants, a…
Flooding sparked by Storm Boris in central Europe has burst dams, knocked out power and killed at least 15 people, authorities said September 16 as…
Thousands of people demonstrated in Brussels on September 16 in solidarity with the workers of a nearby Audi factory making electric vehicles that the German…
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 16 pardoned 37 prisoners convicted of "extremist offences" -- a term Minsk uses to describe political prisoners -- in…
After weeks of fierce political horse-trading, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen unveiled September 17 her new top team to help steward the EU…
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan granted bail September 16 to 10 lawmakers from jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party, an AFP journalist witnessed. At…
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said September 16. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of…
Police have detained 104 striking workers protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India as they were planning a march on September…
Bangladesh's new caretaker government has wrapped up its first key diplomatic meeting with a call to "reset, reform and restart" after a student-led uprising ousted…
Malaysian authorities have frozen close to 100 bank accounts belonging to a conglomerate accused of running care homes where hundreds of children were allegedly abused,…
A Cambodian union leader vowed on September 16 to carry on fighting for workers' rights after she completed a prison sentence for leading a strike…
The Philippines insisted on September 16 that it had not given up a South China Sea reef, two days after it pulled out a ship…
