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The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape 's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.
East Timor and Papua New Guinea are both members of the Non-Aligned Movement, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the G7+ states, in which East Timor plays a leading role. [3] Both nations hold observer status within ASEAN. In 2019, Richard Maru, Papua New Guinea's Minister of National Planning and Monitoring, visited East ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Papua New Guinea's massive landslide three days ago buried more than 2,000 people, the government said on Monday, as treacherous terrain impeded aid and lowered hopes of finding ...
The unification of Western New Guinea with Papua New Guinea was official Australian government policy for a short period of time in the 1960s, before Indonesia's annexation of the region. [42] Generally, proposals regarding federation with Papua New Guinea are a minority view in the freedom movement.
An eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano that raised regional tsunami fears subsided Tuesday, but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby. One of ...
Xi made the comments in a meeting with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape, who was in Beijing to attend this week's Belt and Road Forum. The Pacific Islands nation, which signed a ...
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
East Timor and Papua New Guinea are both members of the Non-Aligned Movement, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the G7+ states, in which East Timor plays a leading role. [3] Both nations hold observer status within ASEAN. In 2019, Richard Maru, Papua New Guinea's Minister of National Planning and Monitoring, visited East ...