The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination ...

A newly released video shows the first-ever footage of the subalpine woolly rat, one of the world’s largest rodents, captured in Papua New Guinea.

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

BANGKOK: The Earthquake Observation Division of the Thai Meteorological Department reported a strong earthquake in Papua New ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Papua Peace Network urges President Prabowo Subianto to appoint a special envoy to establish a ...

JAKARTA -- An eruption of violence in Indonesia's eastern Papua region, which has seen more than 40 people killed this year, has prompted calls for the government to pay greater attention to the area ...

Torrential rains forced a halt on Monday (May 19) to Indonesia's search for over a dozen missing in its easternmost region of ...

(Reuters) -A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea, early on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 53 km (32.93 miles ...

Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) confirmed that 15 people died in a flash flood that struck a gold ...

Indonesia's military has killed 18 Papuan separatists during an operation in its easternmost region of Papua, an official said on Thursday, and three civilians also died.

A protest by university students in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua turned violent on Thursday (May 22), leaving ...