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Papua New Guinea police officers shoot and kill 11 prisoners after a mass jailbreak on Friday. At least 34 prisoners remain at large.
2020-08-18

Papua New Guinea reports its first confirmed case of COVID-19, a male patient from Spain currently being isolated in Lae. The country will also close its borders.
2020-03-20

Papua New Guinean media reports confirm that 17 people were fatally shot by prison officers during a prison escape in Lae on May 12.
2017-05-15

Papua New Guinea student protest leader Noel Anjo says demonstrations will continue despite the court order barring protests. "The students are not going to give up until and unless the prime minister resigns or surrenders himself to police and is arrested and charged," Anjo said.
2016-06-9

Eleven prison inmates are killed in Papua New Guinea while trying to break out of Buimo jail in Lae as part of a 90 person jail break.
2016-02-26

An official from Papua New Guinea's maritime safety authority estimates that 100 people were trapped aboard the ferry Rabaul Queen which sank off the northeast coast yesterday.
2012-02-3

A landslide in central Papua New Guinea leaves four people dead and 60 missing.
2012-01-25

At least 20 people die after an Airlines PNG de Havilland Canada DHC Dash 8-102 crashes on the north coast of Papua New Guinea between Lae and Madang.
2011-10-13

A strong earthquake of 6.6 magnitude occurs off the coast of New Britain in Papua New Guinea but no tsunami warning is issued.
2011-06-16

Papua New Guinea Deputy Prime Minister Puka Temu joins with opposition MPs in an attempt to bring down the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare.
2010-07-19