Australia and Papua New Guinea will on Thursday announce they ... just 14 months after the two nations signed a landmark security agreement, and three months after they inked a $600 million deal ...

While the pact aims to strengthen Canberra’s regional leadership, it could also be utilised to monitor Chinese naval activity ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...