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Journalist Patrick Winn, writing for The World website, reported that Toroama wants the support of Washington and has offered Bougainville as a site for an American military base.

The mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region was the catalyst for the nearly ten-year long civil war through the 1990s.

A round-up of news and sports in brief from arond the region, including over 100 illegal fish aggregating devices (FADs) found in the waters of Palau.

Ezekiel Masatt said a joint understanding has been reached with Papua New Guinea to broaden the role of the recently appointed independent moderator.

This comes after the release of draft results of an investigation into the damage has confirmed what many people have been saying for years.

President Ishmael Toroama said the plans represent Bougainville's continued progress towards realising the dreams of past generations.

The Porgera gold mine was re-opened with fanfare earlier this year, after a three year shut-down during which the government negotiated terms more favourable to it.

This week, Bougainville is to get a new bank, one that is geared to providing banking services directly to women. Audio

The lawsuit seeks compensation for alleged historic mismanagement of a mine that sparked a civil war.

The Panguna mine closed in 1989 after anger about pollution and the distribution of profits sparked a landowner rebellion. As many as 20,000 people - or 10 percent of Bougainville's population - are…

These are the Bougainville Government Land Bill, Customary Land Bill, Land Registers Bill 2024, and the Planning and Development Bill.

A new dark sky sanctuary, a cocoa boom and a viral TikTok star promoting Māori kai are among this week's feelgood stories.

A large-scale study has found a plethora of actual and potential human rights violations, including risks to life.

The world price of cocoa is up dramatically after crop failures in much of West Africa boosted other producers.

For Bougainville, whose cocoa trees were old, tired and ignored by the end of the civil war, what was needed was the lift provided by aid donors through the Bougainville Partnership.

This follows a memorandum of agreement between the government of the autonomous Papua New Guinea region and the National Airports Corporation.

Sir Jerry has been holding meetings with both the leaders of PNG and Bougainville, and other officials, in Port Moresby this week.

Former New Zealand Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae is in Port Moresby this week to meet with the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and the Bougainville President.

The event, first held in 2019, aims to showcase Bougainville's cocoa production and to foster an interest in chocolate products.