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Northern Division have disappeared, sparking concern within the Health Ministry...Dr Romanik said the seven could have moved to Viti Levu. "These cases were part of our follow-up and counselling program but this year, they just moved to another place without...

SIX per cent of women have suffered abuse from a male partner, according to studies. They show 30 per cent suffered repeated abuse and 42 per cent had been assaulted during pregnancy. The regional office of the United Nations Development...

Brain-eating tribe helps in understanding of mad cow disease Updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 16:15 IST London: Scientists have discovered a rare example of rapid human evolution by analysing a cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribespeople...

AusAID-Papua New Guinea, Dr Nii Plange gave these comments during a three-day regional symposium on population and development in the Pacific held at the USP. Dr Plange said advocates avoided the use of the word "sex" and "sexuality issues" in...

En route to Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently, I noticed on my Air Niugini flight from Brisbane to Port Moresby that the instructions in the toilets were in Icelandic! Now Reykjavik is a fair trek from Port Moresby (and not...

Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for compensation. Frederick Martens, 60, was sentenced to five years' jail after being accused of a 2001 sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Papua New Guinea. But last week...

Some have been here for more than 30 years after fleeing Indonesian rule...The Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby has been offering to repatriate those who want to return home and yesterday two planes carried 140 people from Wewak to Papua's...

These questions and many others are answered in a report, “Building a Mobile Money Distribution Network in Papua New Guinea,” launched this week in Papua New Guinea...Pacific-wide programme helping provide sustainable financial services to low income households.

Within a matter of weeks, the Papua New Guinea Government expects to close a deal with Exxon Mobil to export liquefied natural gas, in what promises to be the single largest investment in the nation's history...However, this growth will only...

Despite the establishment of new AFL, A-League and Super rugby teams from 2011, NRL chief executive David Gallop revealed yesterday that the issue would not even be discussed again by the league's governing body before then. ''We've done some research...