Papua New Guinea is the largest and most populous state in Melanesia. Australia has been signing security deals, dishing out aid funding and ramping up diplomatic visits to cement its influence in ...

A defence deal being forged between Australia and Papua New Guinea may signal Canberra ... Observers said the security pact mooted last Thursday in Brisbane between Australian Defence Minister ...

The federal government has announced it will begin negotiations with Papua New Guinea on a formal defence treaty. Australia hopes the treaty will deepen its ties with the Pacific island nation and ...

A part of this year’s Operation Talisman Sabre military exercise will be held in Papua New Guinea ... and deals a major blow to Beijing, which approached PNG with its own security deal ...

Australia’s push for security and policing agreements with Pacific countries ... opening new diplomatic posts, negotiating a security deal with Papua New Guinea and vowing to deepen economic aid. Sora ...

Australian prosecutors have dropped a charge against a Papua New Guinea government minister accused of assaulting a woman in ...

SYDNEY--Papua New Guinea is in early talks with China ... PNG signed a A$200 million ($132 million) security deal with Australia last month to boost policing, and days later Prime Minister James ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural ... including providing physical security for foreign investors, regaining investor confidence, restoring integrity to state institutions ...