Papua New Guinea News

A spokeswoman from the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the man died earlier today. She says the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby is providing consular assistance to a family member who was also on the trek. Staff are also...

Yesterday, 55-year-old Sydney man Phillip Brunskill died from a suspected heart attack while taking part in a trek. He is the fourth Australian to die on the Kokoda Track this year. Earlier today a woman from the same group as...

Gold rose to a record high of $US1,062.70 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday. The value of gold has soared in recent weeks as the US dollar experienced weakness, China restocked and investors looked for a...

Australian Paralympian Kurt Fearnley completed a grueling 96 kilometer (60 mile) crawl along a jungle trek on Wednesday, just weeks after taking the New York marathon wheelchair title. The three-time Paralympic gold-medalist, who was born without the lower part of...

Five men from Papua New Guinea who were lost at sea for two months have been rescued and are recovering, authorities say. Two other men were alive when found near the island nation of Nauru Sunday by a passing U.S....

Staff from the Australian High Commission travelled to the mountainside crash site last Friday after local villagers reported finding human remains. The Department of Foreign Affairs says they recovered "what appeared to be human remains" and brought them back to...

THE greatest ever Australian crawl to prove that the impossible is possible, has begun. Paralympian Kurt Fearnley set out this afternoon to drag himself on his hands over 96km of Papua New Guinea's infamous Kokoda Track. The 28-year-old wheelchair-user and athlete...

Papua New Guinea was Monday awarded the rights to host the 2015 Pacific Games, holding off its only challenger Tonga by a three-vote majority. Papua New Guinea received 25 votes at a Pacific Games Council meeting here with 22 votes...