They have children at home. Selling betel nut — an addictive, natural chew — to passersby in mountain towns of Papua New Guinea is a good way to earn a living. But the extra income sometimes ...

Papua New Guinea is home to one of the world's highest incidence of gender-based violence. Young, low-income women who work at night selling betel nuts are among the most vulnerable. Time now for ...

On a tree-lined street in Papua New Guinea's capital, Ruth sits at a small table covered in rows of betel nuts and mustard sticks for sale. In Port Moresby, there is no shortage of buyers for the ...

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Papua New Guinea, where roughly half the population of 9 million people chews betel nut, has the world’s highest incidence of oral cancer, according to estimates. 4 In recent years, oral cancer ...

They can put up signs. They can try to stop it. But as long as life is hard and the days are long, people will chew. Because ...

In particular, Papua New Guinea was badly hit, with 84 per cent of oral cancer diagnoses linked to betel nuts, according to ...

its streets full of bearded men from the Papua New Guinea highlands chewing and spitting betel nut, overlaid with the noise and fumes of revving minibuses, trucks and four-wheel drives.