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Riots occur in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, following a strike by police over a reduction in their pay. Ten people are killed and 13 others are seriously injured as a result of the riots.
2024-01-10

Four people are injured after a PAC 750-XL aircraft crashes in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea.
2023-02-9

Authorities in Papua New Guinea urge people to get vaccinated as the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant was confirmed yesterday in the Filipino captain of a ship which was docked in Port Moresby. Currently less than 1% of Papuans are vaccinated.
2021-07-16

The government of Papua New Guinea declares a state of emergency and suspends the government of Southern Highlands Province following post-election riots in the provincial capital of Mendi.
2018-06-16

Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month "in order to research the social network’s effects on the population and to crack down on fake accounts."
2018-05-29

All residents are evacuated, 500 of them to the nearby island of Blup Blup, while the once-dormant Kadovar volcano in the Schouten Islands, Papua New Guinea, erupts for the first known time, sending an ash cloud 2.1 km above sea level.
2018-01-8

Anti-government protests erupt across Papua New Guinea against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, calling on him to resign. Papua New Guinea has been in a state of political turmoil since 2014 when the Prime Minister was accused of fraud and corruption.
2016-05-28

Head of Australia's Department of Immigration Mike Pezzullo denies that the detention centre for asylum seekers on Manus Island must be closed. He said there was no crisis that required any closure of the centre despite Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling it to be unconstitutional and ordering the release of the detainees.
2016-05-6

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says Australia and Papua New Guinea will hold emergency talks next week about asylum seekers Australia has been holding on PNG's Los Negros Island in Manus Province. Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled this detention is illegal, and ordered the PNG and Australian governments to immediately take steps to end it. An Iranian refugee detainee remains in critical condition after setting himself on fire yesterday to protest Australia's treatment of refugees while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was visiting the island.
2016-04-28

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes off the coast of Papua New Guinea, setting off tsunami warnings for the country.
2014-04-11