AS the country prepares to hand over New Ireland Governor and former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan’s casket to the ...

Nestled in the Pacific, Bougainville is about to make history as the world’s newest country. This tiny island, a part of Papua New Guinea, is home to just 300,000 people and is a land of ...

Bougainville, nearly as big as Hawaii’s main island and just as stunning, is the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the autonomous Papua New Guinea region preparing for its ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

Skip to content viewer section. Opposition to mining development at the Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea's North Solomons Province led to the emergence of a secessionist movement on Bougainville in ...

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, General Montcalm's aide-de-camp, was diminutive, overweight, asthmatic and possessed a good military mind. As he had already written two books on mathematics and was ...