MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal ...

Rugby league is the most popular sport in Papua New Guinea, which has an impoverished population of 12 million mostly subsistence farmers, wracked by tribal warfare, worsening violent crime and ...

Signed in December last year, it aims to help Papua New Guinea's overwhelmed security forces contain arms trafficking, drug smuggling and tribal violence. "Australia and Papua New Guinea are vital ...

There has been plenty of smoke around Papua ... tribal clashes — but the game can act as a flashpoint for conflicts that stretch back decades. Rugby league is not a game in Papua New Guinea ...

The Chimbu, an indigenous tribe from Papua New Guinea's central highlands, practice a unique tradition of painting themselves ...

Signed in December last year, it aims to help Papua New Guinea's overwhelmed security forces contain arms trafficking, drug smuggling and tribal violence. "Australia and PNG are vital to each ...

Now, in what is certain to be hailed as the biggest sports diplomacy engagement in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea will get its ... amidst the civil unrest and tribal warfare that has put the ...

What a year it’s been. 2024 held plenty of hard news for nature, but there were also notable wins. Those successes deserve to ...

The grand chamber of the National Parliament Haus in Waigani, Port Moresby, resonated with the voices of young leaders on 18 November 2024 to mark the opening of Papua New Guinea’s National ... and ...

Next week, Albanese will officially announce that a team from Papua New Guinea will enter the NRL ... more than 800 living languages and where tribal violence remains a deadly reality, rugby ...