Papua New Guinea

Transparency International PNG says a planned forestry development in Western Province appears to have got the go-ahead with no due diligence being done by the government.

Papua New Guinea's foremost tourist attraction, the Kokoda Track, reopened on Thursday afternoon after being shut down by landowners over a payment dispute.

When revealing the 2025 Budget, PNG Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey said, "it gives the police more than they asked for."

MP from Southern Highlands Province William Powi says politicians and bureaucrats are arming warlords and holding the nation's progress and security at ransom.

It comes as the ABC has unearthed details of the Australian business behind the project.

Household goods such as rice, tea, coffee, tinned fish, tinned meat, flour, chicken, and noodles, along with diapers, and sanitary pads, will no longer carrying GST charges.

Papua New Guinea has long had notoriously high levels of HIV infection, but in the past year numbers reached a record 6700 cases.

Last week, 13 opposition members defected, increasing James Marape's support in the House to over 90 out of 118 MPs.

The Papua New Guinea prime minister wants the Games to be brought back next year to coincide with the country's 50th anniversary of independence.

He said the government is planning reforms in Public Service, the Provincial and Local Level Government system, the Law and Justice Sector, and in the country's resource laws.

In a statement Rio Tinto, which has never committed to paying for the damage caused by the mine, said the MOU will include setting up a remedy mechanism.

Opinion - The almost unanimous view that things are heading in the wrong direction should serve as a wake-up call for Papua New Guinea's politicians.

The recent violence at Porgera in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province, which claimed a number of lives and saw homes destroyed, has been brought under control by a beefed-up security presence.

Civil society groups and community representatives from across Papua New Guinea say the government must take action to end the widespread abuse of Forest Clearing Authorities (FCAs).

A Papua New Guinean woman on a journey to learn her native tongue says language weeks should only be a starting point.

It's estimated that 5.6 percent of Papua New Guinea's population aged over 50 years old is living with blindness. Audio

Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week is being celebrated in New Zealand for the first time.

Stories of human body parts smuggling, and stories associated with PNG, go back many years, but there has not been any confirmation of such practices. Audio