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Papua New Guinea
APEC Summit: World Leaders Savage 'America First'
By Charlie Campbell / Port Moresby
APEC Leaders Descend on Papua New Guinea
By Charlie Campbell / Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea Government Criticized After Buying 40 Custom Maseratis
By Billy Perrigo
Report: Papua New Guinea to Shut Down Facebook for One Month
By Laignee Barron
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Papua New Guinea
Death Toll Rises as Aftershocks Rattle Papua New Guinea
Landslides have blocked aid delivery to some of the hardest-hit areas
By TIME Staff
March 4, 2018
Australia Is Responsible for the Manus Island Detainees, U.N. Says
The U.N. Human Rights Committee insists Australia resettle the 600 asylum seekers who remain at the facility
By Eli Meixler
November 9, 2017
Australia Will Pay Manus Island Asylum Seekers $52 Million
The government will pay some 1,900 claimants, but has not acknowledged liability for mistreatment
By Kevin Lui
June 14, 2017
Papua New Guinea Moves to End Student Protests
Demonstrators have called for the Prime Minister's ouster over corruption allegations
By Simon Lewis
June 8, 2016
PNG Police Fire on Students, Killing 4
Protesters were attempting to march on the legislature
By Simon Lewis
June 7, 2016
A Bangladeshi Refugee Has Died on Nauru
An activist group accused the government of "covering up" the fact that the man had overdosed
By Simon Lewis
May 11, 2016
PNG Will Close Manus Island Detention Center
"We did not anticipate the asylum seekers to be kept as long as they have"
By Mark Rivett-Carnac
April 27, 2016
Australian Detention Center at Manus Ruled Illegal
Australia houses 850 refugees and illegal immigrants on the Papuan island of Manus
By Mark Rivett-Carnac
April 26, 2016
Australia to Send Asylum Seeker 'Baby Asha' Back to Nauru Eventually
The child and her mother have been moved from a hospital to community detention
By Rishi Iyengar
February 22, 2016
Australian Churches Offer Sanctuary to Refugees
Nearly 270 asylum seekers — among them 37 infants — are currently facing return to the islands of Nauru and Manus
By Simon Lewis
February 4, 2016
Australia's Offshore Detention of Refugees Ruled Legal
The court ruled that conditions at the offshore sites do not violate Australia's constitution
By Rishi Iyengar
February 3, 2016
Drought Triggers Food Shortages in Papua New Guinea
Water supplies have completely dried up in some areas
By Mark Rivett-Carnac
January 22, 2016
Hunger Strikers Protest Australian Resettlement Plan
Several are refusing water and have sown their lips shut
By Sabrina Toppa
January 19, 2015
Asylum Seekers Want Obama to Save Them From Australian-Run Internment Camps
The refugees say they are being treated like animals at an Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea
By David Stout
November 28, 2014
Australia's Plan to Outsource Refugees Won't Work
Impoverished, repressive and corrupt Cambodia is no place for an asylum seeker
By Ian Lloyd Neubauer
September 29, 2014
Gay Asylum Seekers May Be Resettled in Anti-Gay Country
The men had originally sought refuge in Australia
By Rishi Iyengar
September 24, 2014
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