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Papua New Guinea added to US visa bond list requiring $15000 for travel

RNZ 20 Mar 2026
Papua New Guinea has been added to an expanded list of 50 countries whose nationals will need to post a US$15000 bond to be able to travel to the United States for business or tourism purposes ... ....
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Reliant on imported fuel, Pacific islands appeal for help as oil prices surge

The Guardian 20 Mar 2026
Samoa and Tonga raise supply concerns with foreign partners as businesses and residents in Papua New Guinea ...
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Papua New Guinea Launches Foreign Policy Blueprint Amid Rapid Global Change

Scoop 18 Mar 2026
The country's "friends to all, enemies to none" mantra remains at the heart of the country's foreign policy blueprint ....
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VALLOUREC SECURES A CARBON STORAGE CONTRACT WITH BP BERAU LTD. FOR THE FIRST OFFSHORE INJECTION WELLS IN PAPUA, INDONESIA (Vallourec SA)

Public Technologies 18 Mar 2026
FOR THE FIRST OFFSHORE INJECTION WELLS IN PAPUA, INDONESIA ... for the development of the Tangguh project, the first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) offshore project, in Papua Barat province, Indonesia.
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Indonesia to build over 2,000 homes for tribal chief in Highland Papua

Antara News 18 Mar 2026
Wamena, Highland Papua (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Housing and Settlements Ministry will help develop thousands of homes for tribal chiefs and residents in the Highland Papua province, a ministry official has confirmed.
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Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua

Mongabay 17 Mar 2026
... said to have risen from the dead, were recently described from rainforests in the Bird’s Head Peninsula on the Indonesian half of New Guinea (the island’s eastern half is part of Papua New Guinea).
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Cruise Ship Grounds on Reef in Papua New Guinea After ECDIS Route Change Derails Approach

gCaptain 13 Mar 2026
The grounding occurred during the ship’s final approach to Dregerhafen, a narrow and poorly marked harbor used by expedition cruise vessels visiting Papua New Guinea’s remote Huon Peninsula.
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Indonesia, Australia to broaden security cooperation to include Japan, Papua New Guinea

Straits Times 12 Mar 2026
The possibility of developing a training defence facility in eastern Indonesia was also discussed ....
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Freeport contractor shot dead in Central Papua, body flown to Jakarta

Antara News 12 Mar 2026
Timika, C Papua (ANTARA) - The coffin of Simson Mulia, an employee of contractor CV Mpeigelah who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near the former Grasberg open-pit mine in Indonesia’s Central Papua, has been flown to Jakarta for burial.
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Watch: 'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers

RNZ 12 Mar 2026
For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far south eastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all ... "This is the problem in West Papua.
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Harmony Gold doubles dividend on bullion bull run

Moneyweb 12 Mar 2026
‘We have grown selectively, sequentially and affordably, turning today's gold prices into durable and compounding value,’ says group financial director Boipelo Lekubo ... .
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Distorted development fuels long-lasting violence in Papua

The Jakarta Post 11 Mar 2026
the escalation of conflict and violence in Papua. Casualties keep mounting among the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police (Polri), the Free Papua Movement (OPM) and civilians alike.
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BRIN researchers identify two new endemic moths in Papua, Sulawesi

The Jakarta Post 09 Mar 2026
National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) research team identified two new moth species endemic to Indonesia in Papua and Sulawesi ... Indonesia and is endemic to Papua, in the Foja Mountains.
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