Bougainville

A company in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville region has donated a water pump to Buka Hospital after the hospital's was stolen.

Australia's High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea has concluded her posting early, with Canberra declining to give a reason why.

The new MP for the Atolls of Bougainville, Raymond Masono, has called on the government to improve shipping to his region.

The Buka General Hospital in Papua New Guinea's autonomous Bougainville region has scaled down its operations after its water pump was stolen.

There are hopes people moved from Bougainville's endangered Carteret Islands will be able to produce food to send back to those that remain.

There are hopes a Carterets Atolls community being relocated to the Bougainville mainland will be able to supply food to those islanders who have not moved.

The head of Transparency Papua New Guinea says the case surrounding former police commissioner Geoffrey Vaki has highlighted several areas where action is needed to combat corruption.

Six people who drifted for miles after their boat sank near the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville have been airlifted to a US hospital ship and given medical care.

Disaster authorities in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville say the search for two people missing after their boat sank off the Carteret Islands on Saturday has been called off.

Disaster authorities in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville are still searching for two people three days after their boat sank 30 kilometres off the Carteret islands.

The United States Navy hospital ship, USNS Mercy, is in Arawa in Bougainville to provide medical and other assistance.

A mother and her baby clung to the remnants of a boat and drifted for more than 24 hours off Bougainville at the weekend, surviving a boating mishap on the way to the Carteret Islands.

The President of Bougainville, John Momis, has appointed seven members to his government's Bougainville Executive Council, with more appointments expected later.

The Bougainville President John Momis, re-elected in a landslide last month, is expected to name his new cabinet today and it will include a new economic services ministry.

Bougainville may seek arbitration if the Papua New Guinea Government does not pay what it says are outstanding grants of $US143 million dollars.

The re-elected President of Bougainville, John Momis, says the Papua New Guinea government owes the region more than $US143 million dollars in development grants.

The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville has today sworn in members of parliament following the six week long election process.

The international group which observed the just completed elections in Bougainville say the vote counting process was conducted with integrity.

Reports from Bougainville say that many losing candidates in the recent election are now talking to their lawyers in a bid to overturn the election results.

The re-elected Autonomous Bougainville Government President, John Momis, has announced part of his caretaker cabinet.