Lawmakers and observers have criticized a proposed housing incentive for members of the House of Representatives (DPR), claiming that it lacks urgency and increases the…
Indonesia hosted an international meeting involving the UN and opponents of Myanmar's ruling military on October 4, according to sources familiar with the talks, as…
Violence against women and children has decreased over the past eight years, according to a survey released by the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and…
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to grant $26 million or around 102 million kina for projects in Hela and Morobe. The cash…
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) granted 224 million kina for developing utility networks in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in an agreement signed…
Aropa Airport will receive upgrades funded by a civil aviation investment signed between Papua New Guinea National Airports Corporation (NAC) and the Autonomous Bougainville Government…
An armed robbery occurred at the parking lot of the Vision City shopping center on Waigani Drive in National Capital district, Port Moresby at around…
An agreement to initiate feasibility studies for the proposed Madang Integrated Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Vidar, Madang was signed by the government. The pact…
A new assessment format to monitor border command officers has been introduced to assess daily performances and their conduct. Border Command assistant commissioner Perou N’Dranou…
The government of Morobe province allocated 2.1 million kina to fund several projects to develop its education, health, economic and law and order infrastructure on…
Kyiv said October 7 its forces had struck a large oil terminal overnight on the occupied Crimean peninsula as Moscow claimed the capture of another…
A Russian court on October 7 sentenced a 72-year-old US citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine to nearly seven years in prison.…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff Sue Gray resigned on October 6 after facing intense scrutiny during the Labour government's first few months…
The German government has slashed its forecast and now expects Europe's largest economy to shrink for a second year running as hopes for a consumption-driven…
The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said October 6, the latest in…
A record 973 migrants crossed the Channel on small boats on the same day in which four died while attempting the journey from France to…
France's budget for 2025 will "fully" be in line with the European Union's new spending rules, Finance Minister Antoine Armand vowed, ahead of his first…
Sweden plans to contribute as many as eight fighter jets to NATO’s air policing next year, in addition to warships and 600 troops that will…
Rwanda's health minister said the country would begin vaccinations against the deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus on October 6 after receiving some 700 doses of a…
South African police have arrested three people in connection with the killing of 18 relatives -- mostly women -- gunned down at a rural homestead…
Torrents of water rushing downstream from the Himalayas have killed at least 20 people in India and Bangladesh in floods and landslides, government disaster officials…
Pakistan's government has banned an ethnic Pashtun rights movement that has accused the military of a heavy-handed crackdown on civilians in the border regions with…
Soaring temperatures at a hugely crowded airshow in India where organisers had hoped to break record attendance figures left at least five people dead, media…
India's ruling party is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress party and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting…
The Philippines and South Korea committed October 7 to deepening maritime cooperation, their presidents said, in the face of China's assertion of its claims over…
