Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers
The premier of Western Australia state, a member of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal Party, has offered to accept refugees from Australian-funded detention centres amid...
Papua New Guinea
Australia, PNG agree to close controversial refugee camp but give no date
Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island, but gave...
PNG court orders Australia to present an asylum seeker resettlement plan
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Australia to present a resettlement plan for nearly 900 asylum seekers held in what it says is...
Dozens reported wounded as PNG police fire on protesters, riots spread
Dozens of people were wounded and four reported killed in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday after police opened fire on a student demonstration in the...
Light plane crashes in Papua New Guinea, 12 dead-reports
A light aircraft crashed while trying to land in Papua New Guinea’s rugged Western province on Wednesday killing 12 people, Australian authorities and media said...
Quake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Papua New Guinea
An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck off the Pacific Ocean nation of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake, about...
Pressure mounting over Australian people-smuggler payment reports
By Matt Siegel Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott declined to comment on Friday on reports the Australian navy paid a group of people-smugglers thousands of...
Woman accused of witchcraft axed to death in missionary
By Alisa Tang Police in Papua New Guinea vowed to find the men who axed to death a woman accused of using witchcraft to spark a measles...
Australian refugee camp protest over, but not tensions
By Matt Siegel A protest involving hundreds of asylum seekers at an Australian immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea, some of whom had sewn...
Hundreds protest amid rising tension in Australian refugee camp
By Matt Siegel Hundreds of asylum seekers have gone on hunger strike at an Australian immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea, rights groups said...
