PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
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 […]
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 […]
