An Australian university professor has been taken hostage in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has confirmed.

The number of active covid-19 cases in Niue has reached 59, with five new cases recorded in the latest reporting period.

Activists and academics are joining forces to fight plans by Japan to start dumping nuclear waste from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Solomon Islands has been struck by two earthquakes within half an hour, the United States Geological Survey has said.

Transparency International Vanuatu, which observed the recent general election, believes there was illegal activity during the polling and has concerns about the counting process.

Samoa’s prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa says dealing with climate change remains her country’s number one priority.

Isolated rural areas of Papua New Guinea have been hit hardest by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake.

The U.S. Geological Survey has detected a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in northeastern Papua New Guinea.

The nine suspects arrested over a barbaric bush knife attack in Papua New Guinea last Sunday outside the counting venue in Port Moresby have been released from Police custody.

The new and extended deadline for the return of writs for the 2022 PNG National Elections has now been gazetted.

Re-elected Papua New Guinea MP Tim Masiu says much of the blame for the country’s election fiasco can be directed at the Electoral Commission.

The Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry is calling on national leaders to impose a curfew in the country’s capital Port Moresby.