PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
Housing has become one of Papua New Guinea’s most urgent social and economic challenges. In towns and cities, rents continue to rise faster than wages, land remains difficult to access, and many families find themselves locked out of formal home […]
In Papua New Guinea, before you talk about recipes, you talk about fire. Fire is where flavour starts. Before gas stoves, before electricity, before someone told us soot was a problem, there was wood, flame, smoke, and patience. You didn’t […]
Apps like Suno, Udio, SOUNDRAW, and AIVA are quietly changing how music is made.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how information is delivered and how people consume it. AI summaries—such as Google’s “AI overviews”—are becoming a normalised way for audiences to find information. However, these summaries often misrepresent facts and, critically, divert readers […]
Sir Brian Bell was part of a generation that helped shape Papua New Guinea’s commercial foundations through long-term commitment rather than short-term gain. His contribution to the country is most closely associated with the Brian Bell Group, one of PNG’s […]
Kava doesn’t arrive in Papua New Guinea with ceremony. It slips in quietly, like a stranger at the edge of a night market. No drum roll. No formal mat laid out. Just a plastic cup, a murky brown liquid, and […]
There are fancy foods in Papua New Guinea, and then there are survival foods. And sitting proudly at the top of that second list—above two-minute noodles, above tinned fish, above last-pay-week bread and butter—is rice and corned beef. Not just […]
Goroka never saw combat during World War II, but the war reached it all the same. High in the Eastern Highlands, the valley had long been shaped by gardens, exchange and seasonal rhythms rather than military strategy. That changed abruptly […]
What was meant to be a procedural meeting to advance Bougainville’s post-referendum transition instead exposed a deeper unease about the very mechanism designed to safeguard peace. When the Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) met in Port Moresby, the focus was expected […]
Long before it became one of Papua New Guinea’s most recognisable coastal towns, Madang was already a meeting place. This stretch of coastline, facing the Bismarck Sea, attracted human settlement for centuries because of its calm waters, sheltered harbour and […]
