Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato says Nick Kuman is the winner of the contentious Gumine seat in the national election.

Protest action has entered a second day at the refugee prison camp on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.

An Australian economist says the latest financial information from Papua New Guinea shows the economy is being extraordinarily mismanaged.

Peter O'Neill has been re-elected prime minister of Papua New Guinea by a newly elected parliament.

The People's National Congress party MP Job Pomat has been elected as the new speaker of Papua New Guinea's parliament.

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A sitting in MP in Papua New Guinea's Chimbu province has been charged in relation to election-related violence that left three people dead.

Papua New Guinea police say more pressure could be applied to refugees today to leave the Manus Island detention centre.

Hundreds of refugees are protesting on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island as efforts intensify to evict the men from the Australian run detention centre.

Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner is under pressure to account for the use of police officers in alleged intimidation around lobbying over formation of government.

Tension has risen at the Australian-run refugee detention centre in Papua New Guinea after power and water were cut to one of its compounds.

An advocacy group in Papua New Guinea has launched a petition calling on the new parliament to establish an Independent Commission Against Corruption within 100 days of taking office.

Catholic Church leaders hope that deported religious lay worker, Doug Tennent, will be let back into Papua New Guinea within days.

It's likely that two election results won't have been declared in two electorates by the time Papua New Guinea's new parliament sits on Wednesday.

Vote counting remains in limbo in Papua New Guinea's Kandep Open seat, one of about ten electorates where results from the national election are still to be declared.

The captain and owner of the doomed inter-island ferry, the Rabaul Queen, have been acquitted of manslaughter charges by Papua New Guinea's National Court.

Opponents of Papua New Guinea's incumbent prime minister say they are confident of forming a new coalition government.

The unruly climax to Papua New Guinea's national elections continued this weekend, with a late afternoon court intervention delaying the return of writs and reports of election-related violence…