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It’s now been confirmed that Australia’s Senate will establish a Select Committee to review allegations relating to conditions and circumstances at the Australian-run Regional Processing Centre on Nauru.
Continue reading “Aus Senate votes for Moss Review committee as govt signs on Cambodia”
An international court overnight dismissed the claims of Papua New Guinea company Oil Search that it retained ownership of 40 per cent of the Elk-Antelope gas field in the nation’s Gulf Province.
Continue reading “Court win for LNG ‘super major’ Total to see huge PNG windfall”
Port Moresby is further relaxing the ban on betel nut, adding restricted areas for its sale and use at the newly renovated Koki market.
Continue reading “PNG capital relaxes betel nut ban adding regulated market stalls”
The Vanuatu government has announced a new attempt to change its parliamentary system to stop MPs crossing the floor and to clarify the affiliations of independents.
Continue reading “Call for anti-‘grasshopping’ ideas for 2016 Vanuatu referendum”
Radio Australia’s shortwave signal to Asia will cease this weekend, another result the ABC says of recent government funding cuts.
Continue reading “Radio Australia to cease Asia shortwave service”
Human Rights Watch released its World Rights Report 2015 late yesterday, and the chapter on Papua New Guinea detailed a range of concerns, including the nation’s problems with police brutality.
Continue reading “PNG rates badly in World Rights Report 2015”
Since his ascendency to general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012 and the presidency in March 2013, Xi Jinping has executed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government and state-owned industry.
Continue reading “‘Tigers’ snared by China’s anti-corruption campaign”
Taiwan’s ailing former president Chen Shui-bian has been freed from prison on medical parole after serving six years of a 20-year sentence for corruption during his presidency.
Continue reading “Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian released on medical parole”
More than two million refugees have now fled Syria’s civil war seeking safe haven in neighbouring countries.
Continue reading “Lebanon struggling to help Syrian refugees”
The passing of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is not just a day of mourning for Australia, but also for a region shaped by his expansive policies of outreach to Asia and the Pacific, regional leaders say.
Continue reading “Regional leaders hail ‘pioneer’ Gough Whitlam”
