Businesses, individuals and governments have faced difficulties obtaining foreign exchange (FX) in PNG over the last decade.

Among the more than two dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was an order to pause US development assistance for 90 days to undertake an “assessment ...

It has proven very challenging to find out how the redistricting of PNG electorates in 2022 changed the electoral map, says Thiago Cintra Oppermann.

As communities across Vanuatu welcomed a new year and contemplated multiple aspiring political candidates ahead of the 16 January snap election, a popular reggae song was making the rounds.

Part 1 of this two-part blog series explained the constitutional limitations on changes to PNG’s electoral maps and the process that led to the most recent changes. The new set of Electoral Boundary ...

The 2024 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, eventually came to an agreement on the quantum of climate ...

The noble push to achieve “Freedom from Hunger” gained momentum after World War II with the formation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which “strives to eradicate hunger ...

An earlier version of this blog was published in The Conversation. After publication, the authors received valuable feedback which is incorporated into the revised version below. There was so much ...

We republish in two parts an investigation first published by In-depth Solomons and undertaken in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Part 1 described the ...

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first female Prime Minister, emerged from Parliament on 21 January 2025 with her leadership intact, despite deep divisions within the ruling Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua ...

Sir Charles Watson Lepani KBE, who passed away on 10 January, was the last surviving member of Papua New Guinea’s famous “Gang of Four”, four young bureaucrats who, at the time of independence, seemed ...