PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
Just outside Goroka, a family-owned coffee processing business is demonstrating what targeted investment can achieve in Papua New Guinea’s export economy. Las Malo Coffee, run by Ken and Maureen Dumudi in Eastern Highlands Province, has emerged over the past year […]
When Starlink services went dark across Papua New Guinea in December 2025, many users experienced it as an abrupt reversal — a technology that had become “good enough to operate” in remote PNG was suddenly gone. But the shutdown did […]
By Cleopas Alfred Suehe The Government’s recent announcement of housing tax relief for first-home buyers has generated public interest, particularly among working Papua New Guineans struggling to enter the formal housing market. The proposal includes removing stamp duty on homes […]
China’s move highlights how emotionally interactive AI is outpacing regulation in Papua New Guinea. When China published draft rules on 27 December 2025 aimed at regulating “humanised” artificial intelligence, it marked a turning point in how governments are beginning to […]
Prime Minister James Marape has announced a new package of housing and tax reforms aimed at making home ownership more accessible for working Papua New Guineans, signalling that housing affordability will remain a central policy focus heading into 2026. Speaking […]
Port Moresby woke up to another reminder that authority, when poorly guarded, becomes a tool for the lazy and the bold. A man allegedly posing as a police officer was arrested after extorting money from members of the public around […]
On 28 August 1972, a Royal Australian Air Force DHC-4 Caribou aircraft crashed in the mountains of Papua New Guinea while flying from Lae to Port Moresby. The aircraft was carrying Australian military personnel and Papua New Guinean school cadets […]
By WIlliam Yep If fibre is the gold standard of modern connectivity, then Papua New Guinea must ask an uncomfortable question: why are so many consumers choosing satellite instead?This is not an attack on fibre. Fibre exists, and in any […]
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 […]
