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22 May – Papua New Guinea and the United States will sign a security pact today that will see U.S. troops stationed in the country in the largest American presence there since the Second World War. [5] 29 August – The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape announces that his country will open their Israel embassy in disputed ...
6–9 September – Pope Francis conducts the first papal visit to Papua New Guinea since 1995. [12] 12 September – Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape survives a vote of no confidence in the National Parliament. [13] 17 September – At least 35 people are killed in intertribal clashes near the Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province ...
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.
The economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is largely underdeveloped with the vast majority of the population living below the poverty line. [20] However, according to the Asian Development Bank its GDP is expected to grow 3.4% in 2022 and 4.6% in 2023. [ 21 ]
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A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being granted a license. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua ...
18 June – Papua New Guinea receives 146,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from New Zealand, facilitated through the COVAX initiative. [ 6 ] 15 July – Papua New Guinea reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a 65-year-old Filipino who is the captain of a cargo ship which departed from Indonesia on June 26 ...
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... This is a list of newspapers in Papua New Guinea. The National; Papua New Guinea Post-Courier; Wantok Niuspepa; ...