This small country has preserved languages from 40,000 years ago and is now the most linguistically diverse place on earth.

New Guinea is the second-largest island in the world, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 14.8 ...

The visiting Cook Islands rugby league team arrived in Port Moresby early last week to a rousing welcome at Jackson's Airport ...

Papua New Guinea is a diverse, developing nation of mostly subsistence farmers where some 800 languages are spoken. It is in a strategically important part of the South Pacific. With 10 million ...

James Cook University is expanding its language program with Townsville's 3rd Brigade, adding a third language as the ...

THERE are approximately 7,000 living languages in the world today, although these are obviously not evenly distributed across countries. While Papua New Guinea may have an estimated 840 languages — ...

Most Papuans say they were denied their right to choose and continue to demand a separate nation. Although the independence ...

In almost exactly one year, Australia’s closest neighbour, Papua New Guinea, will be celebrating 50 years of independence. However, since well before then, since at least the earliest days of European ...

E ver since Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) in April, Australia has been trying to fend off a security pact between the two countries. Mr Wang ...

Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a boycott of next month's UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a ...

Pacific Islanders say representing their home nations helped them connect with culture and become better players.

ExxonMobil and its joint venture partners in the Papua New Guinea LNG project will soon receive a much-needed injection of new gas from a US$1 billion gas field development in the jungles of the ...