Papua New Guinea

Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province

Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan

China's military flies a record 149 flights over international airspace, prompting Taiwanese defense forces to scramble in response. Also, Australia announces it will stop sending asylum-seekers for processing to Papua New Guinea by the end of the year. And, Germany agrees to extend compensation to thousands of Holocaust survivors.

Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan
A truck carrying a Bougainville flag drives by a man.

The islands of Bougainville may become the world's newest country

The islands of Bougainville may become the world's newest country
High tide at Nukatoa Island, in the Takuu Atoll, Papua New Guinea.

Understanding the human side of climate change relocation

Understanding the human side of climate change relocation
People stand with face masks on the verandah of a yellow hospital building.

A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific

A raging TB epidemic in Papua New Guinea threatens to destabilize the entire Asia Pacific
A Chinese flag flies in front of the Great Wall of China

A group of Western nations are planning to bulk up their Pacific presence to counter China

A group of Western nations are planning to bulk up their Pacific presence to counter China
Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney against the treatment of asylum-seekers at Australia-run detention centers

Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia's shuttered detention center on Manus

Australia forces all would-be asylum-seekers into camps on two islands. Police in Manus, where one of the camps is located, removed dozens of refugees in an effort to end a stand-off that has drawn global attention to Canberra's tough asylum-seeker policies.

Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia's shuttered detention center on Manus
Some 600 asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea have refused to leave after Australian and Papua New Guinean officials formally shut down the camp and cut off power at the camp on October 31st.

Critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for 600 asylum-seekers in an offshore Australian detention camp

About 600 asylum-seekers in an Australian offshore detention camp on Papua New Guinea are hunkering down and refusing to leave. The power has been cut off, there's no air conditioning and food is running out.

Critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for 600 asylum-seekers in an offshore Australian detention camp
Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. It is scheduled to close October 31, 2017. Eoin Blackwell/AAP/via Reuters/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - FACES PIXELLATED AT SOURCE. THIS PICTURE

For the asylum-seekers in one of Australia's controversial offshore detention camps, there's good news and bad news

The US agreed to resettle refugees stuck in an Australian-run offshore detention facility. But with the camp slated to be shut down in late October, not a single refugee has been approved.

For the asylum-seekers in one of Australia's controversial offshore detention camps, there's good news and bad news
This cartoon by Eaten Fish is playing off the name of the Australian-funded offshore detention camp in Papua New Guinea where the Iranian cartoonist is being held. It's called the Manus Regional Processing Centre but many hundreds of the aslylum seekers t

The Trump Administration says it will honor the Obama-era deal with Australia to resettle its offshore detainees. That's good news for cartoonist Eaten Fish.

The Trump Administration says will honor the 'dumb deal' President Obama made with Australia to resettle its offshore detainees. Could this mean a new home for Iranian cartoonist Eaten Fish?

The Trump Administration says it will honor the Obama-era deal with Australia to resettle its offshore detainees. That's good news for cartoonist Eaten Fish.
Dorothy Ketau

How a struggling single mom in Papua New Guinea found her cloth on a New York fashion runway

Florence Jaukae found herself abandoned by her husband, with children to feed and didn't know what to do. So she took a tradition from her Papua New Guinea village and reinvented it for a modern world.

How a struggling single mom in Papua New Guinea found her cloth on a New York fashion runway
A pig-nosed turtle, which is becoming a favorite as an exotic pet.

Pig-nosed turtles are adorable — and that's made them the target of traffickers

Pig-nosed turtles are so cute that thousands of them are being smuggled by animal traffickers to be sold as exotic pets. But while they're adorable as babies, they grow up to become big, feisty animals that many people abandon  — a problem for a species that's considered threatened.

Pig-nosed turtles are adorable — and that's made them the target of traffickers
Robotic arm taking samples

Deep seabed mining is a new — and lightly regulated — ecological experiment

A Canadian company has struck a deal with Papua New Guinea to mine gold and other metals from deep beneath the sea. The project raises great concerns about the impact on life in the deep ocean.

Deep seabed mining is a new — and lightly regulated — ecological experiment

Presidential problems pale in comparison to the stress facing one small marsupial...

Male members of a small, mouse-like species in Papua New Guinea that care barely stand to come into contact with female members of their species, according to new research. Meanwhile, old episodes of Doctor Who, the pop-hit TV show, have resurfaced. Today's Global Scan.

Presidential problems pale in comparison to the stress facing one small marsupial...

Study finds alarming number of men in 6 Asian countries don't think rape is rape

A new study from the United Nations out last month revealed startling attitudes toward sex and sexual violence in six countries across the Asia Pacific region. In one example, the study revealed that 25 percent of the men studied in Cambodia admitted to having committed rape.

Study finds alarming number of men in 6 Asian countries don't think rape is rape

Lessons from Traditional Societies on Raising Children, Caring for the Elderly

Lessons from Traditional Societies on Raising Children, Caring for the Elderly