Internet affordability in Papua New Guinea is generally considered poor. A discussion paper published in 2016, a working ...

“There are people in the buildings in town,” Port Vila resident Michael Thompson told AFP news agency by satellite phone ... in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, said the US Embassy in ...

The country's plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations would make it one of the world's largest legalised deforestation undertakings.

While seeking to lock China out of the Pacific, the Australian-led operation establishes a rapid deployment force for ...

on the border with Papua New Guinea, to make way for a cluster of giant sugarcane plantations. This makes the project one of the largest legalized deforestation undertakings in the world.

A local journalist says there are "multiple deaths" following a magnitude-7.3 quake in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It struck the capital a depth of 57.1km on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. At ...

Space exploration is difficult, and when things go wrong, they can go very wrong—as demonstrated by this light-hearted review ...

China sent a team of four technical specialists to Vanuatu to help with earthquake recovery efforts this week, in a Pacific islands first for Beijing as it steps up engagement with nations in the ...

Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The primary goal of the project is to generate an accurate record of variance in long-term sea level for the Pacific region. The ...

As 2025 dawns, here is a look at some of the storylines that could shape the fate of tropical forests this year. More reading ...