The country has decided to grant a licence to a state-owned company to develop a gas field, preferring to keep control and income from the resources within the government rather than give a foreign private company the rights to develop the new project

As Pope Francis prepares to visit Papua New Guinea in September, the Superior General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart said he will find "a Church with a strong practice of faith, but in the style of Papua New Guinea"

Papua New Guinea's national statistician, John Igitoi, has assured the public that the data collected with tablets in the ongoing digital census will be secure and confidential, after all measures have been taken

Wood has secured a contract worth $18 million from the Newmont mining company to upgrade the Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea, with projects focusing on maintenance and improving the condition and performance of the plant

Two weeks after the landslide in Yambali village, humanitarian assistance is still hampered by lack of access to roads, tensions between tribes and new evacuation orders; 670 people at least are considered missing