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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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Death Toll Rises as Aftershocks Rattle Papua New Guinea

Landslides have blocked aid delivery to some of the hardest-hit areas

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

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

Papua New Guinea Moves to End Student Protests

Demonstrators have called for the Prime Minister's ouster over corruption allegations

By Simon Lewis

PNG Police Fire on Students, Killing 4

Protesters were attempting to march on the legislature

By Simon Lewis

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

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

Australian Detention Center at Manus Ruled Illegal

Australia houses 850 refugees and illegal immigrants on the Papuan island of Manus

By Mark Rivett-Carnac

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

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

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

Drought Triggers Food Shortages in Papua New Guinea

Water supplies have completely dried up in some areas

By Mark Rivett-Carnac

Hunger Strikers Protest Australian Resettlement Plan

Several are refusing water and have sown their lips shut

By Sabrina Toppa

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

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

Gay Asylum Seekers May Be Resettled in Anti-Gay Country

The men had originally sought refuge in Australia

By Rishi Iyengar
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