Papua New Guinea is the most populous and important country in the South Pacific, and its strategic significance has been enhanced with the Obama administration’s “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific ...

New South Wales, Australia – In Papua New Guinea, two men both claim to be the prime minister. Since its independence in 1975, PNG has been a constitutional democracy.

A week ago, it looked like Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister was about to lose his job — instead he has managed to take control of Parliament, and suspend it for five months.

July 22 (UPI) --The United Nations on Thursday condemned political violence in Papua New Guinea "unequivocally" and called for an "immediate cessation" of the election-related violence.