Australia Supports LHS with Medical Supplies LAE, Papua New Guinea — 11 August 2026: The Australian Government has handed over a 40-foot container of donated medical supplies to Lutheran Health Services (LHS), supporting the Church’s frontline healthcare services in Morobe and other parts of Papua New Guinea. The supplies were officially handed over to LHS […]
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LAE, Papua New Guinea — 1 September 2026 The Australian Government, through the Australian Consulate-General in Lae, donated 20 ventilators valued at K1 million to Lutheran Health Services (LHS) during a handover ceremony held at the Australian Consulate-General office in Lae on 1 September 2026, strengthening emergency and life-saving care at Lutheran health service rural
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Financial Review based in the Canberra bureau. Nicola SmithCanberra bureau chiefNicola Smith is The Australian Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief. She was formerly a foreign correspondent covering Asia and the European Union and joined the Financial Review in 2025. Reach Nicola securely on Signal @niccijsmith.03. Five-year plan endorsed for Pacific seismic network that warns communities
BA, 17 AUGUST 2026 (OFC)—Rewa FC came from 1-0 down to defeat Lae City FC and book their place in the semi-finals of the OFC Men’s Champions League, in an entertaining tussle in Ba. By virtue of their superior goal difference, the Papua New Guinea side knew a draw would be enough for them to
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PORT VILA, 17 AUGUST 2026 (VANUATU DAILY POST) —The United States (U.S) Embassy in Port Moresby, which handles U.S interests in Vanuatu, has defended the decision to permanently include Vanuatu in the U.S Visa Bond Programme, saying the measure is aimed at enforcing immigration laws and reducing visa overstays. The Embassy told the Daily Post
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fishing HONIARA, 17 AUGUST 2026 (FFA)—Sixteen vessels of interest (VOIs) were identified during Operation Island Chief 2026 (OPIC26), one of the higher numbers recorded in recent FFA coordinated regional surveillance operations, as Members and partners stepped up fisheries monitoring activities across the region. The two-week long operation, coordinated by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
decade in charge of FIFA with funding increasing from US$2 to US$3 million over a four-year cycle to US$8 million in the last round. Infantino inaugurated a new national soccer center in Papua New Guinea, funded by FIFA Forward money in 2023, and another has opened in the Solomon Islands. Vanuatu has a new stadium.
PORT MORESBY, 14 AUGUST 2026 (THE NATIONAL) —About 4,000 to 4,500 jobs awaits for the Papua LNG project downstream operations, says ExxonMobil PNG national content manager Sam Koyama. Koyama said during the Papua LNG development forum in Port Moresby that ExxonMobil’s national content plan for Papua LNG downstream had three pillars. “For workforce development, the
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PORT MORESBY, 14 AUGUST 2026 (EU- STREIT PNG)—Papua New Guinea has expanded its capacity to process cocoa locally with the inauguration of a US$2.8 million upgrade at Queen Emma Chocolate in Port Moresby. The new equipment is expected to double the factory’s output and allow more Papua New Guinean cocoa to be turned into higher-value
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PORT MORESBY, 14 AUGUST 2026 (DEVPOLICY.ORG) —Papua New Guinea’s agricultural production has been in steady decline for more than two decades, and continued emphasis on policies and legislation will not reverse the trend without a fundamental change in how farming is carried out on the ground. The decline began around 1990 with the Bougainville crisis,
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