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Papua New Guinea

A look at what comes next as Gaza ceasefire takes hold
Full Episode
50:34
Australia signs security deals with India and Papua New Guinea
5:00
Papua New Guinea celebrates 50 years of independence
7:03
On this remote isle, a Saint Mary icon endured flames of war
3:52
Sacred Spaces
On this remote isle, an icon of the Virgin Mary has endured the flames of war
4:25
Saint Mary statue endures flames of war on this remote isle
4:25
Bougainville, Part 3: The world’s next country?
13:06
Bougainville, Part 2: The world’s next country?
13:08
Bougainville: The world’s next country?
13:17
Business, Economics and Jobs
Bougainville: The world’s next new country?
13:17
Pope Francis lands in Indonesia on Southeast Asia trip
5:48
Papua New Guinea’s population mystery
4:41
Papua New Guinea recovers from deadly landslide
4:02
Israeli airstrike kills displaced Palestinians in Rafah
Full Episode
48:28
Papua New Guinea landslide may have killed thousands
4:03
Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province
Top of The World
Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan
A truck carrying a Bougainville flag drives by a man.
Global Politics
The islands of Bougainville may become the world’s newest country
High tide at Nukatoa Island, in the Takuu Atoll, Papua New Guinea.
Climate Change
Understanding the human side of climate change relocation
People stand with face masks on the verandah of a yellow hospital building.
Health & Medicine
A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific
A Chinese flag flies in front of the Great Wall of China
A group of Western nations are planning to bulk up their Pacific presence to counter China
Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney against the treatment of asylum-seekers at Australia-run detention centers
Conflict
Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia’s shuttered detention center on Manus
Some 600 asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea have refused to leave after Australian and Papua New Guinean officials formally shut down the camp and cut off power at the camp on October 31st.
Conflict
Critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for 600 asylum-seekers in an offshore Australian detention camp
Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. It is scheduled to close October 31, 2017. Eoin Blackwell/AAP/via Reuters/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - FACES PIXELLATED AT SOURCE. THIS PICTURE
Global Politics
For the asylum-seekers in one of Australia’s controversial offshore detention camps, there’s good news and bad news
This cartoon by Eaten Fish is playing off the name of the Australian-funded offshore detention camp in Papua New Guinea where the Iranian cartoonist is being held. It's called the Manus Regional Processing Centre but many hundreds of the aslylum seekers t
Justice
The Trump Administration says it will honor the Obama-era deal with Australia to resettle its offshore detainees. That’s good news for cartoonist Eaten Fish.
Dorothy Ketau
Development
How a struggling single mom in Papua New Guinea found her cloth on a New York fashion runway
A pig-nosed turtle, which is becoming a favorite as an exotic pet.
Environment
Pig-nosed turtles are adorable — and that’s made them the target of traffickers
Robotic arm taking samples
Environment
Deep seabed mining is a new — and lightly regulated — ecological experiment
Global Scan
Presidential problems pale in comparison to the stress facing one small marsupial…
Health & Medicine
Study finds alarming number of men in 6 Asian countries don’t think rape is rape
VIDEO: Australia plans to offshore handling of refugee review
Environment
Working on the future
Lessons from Traditional Societies on Raising Children, Caring for the Elderly
Environment
Tracing the Ocean’s Ingredients
Chasing Kangaroos
Paupa New Guinea: Natural Resource Conflict Turns To War
Chasing Kangaroos
EarthEar
New Guinea Mine Mess
Conflict & Justice
Geo answer
Lifestyle & Belief
Geo Quiz
Arts, Culture & Media
Strange new species
Global Politics
Relic collectors endanger WW II remains
Environment
A gathering of global warming skeptics