Nestled in the Pacific, Bougainville is about to make history as the world’s newest country. This tiny island, a part of Papua New Guinea, is home to just 300,000 people and is a land of ...
THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...
Papua New Guinea's copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a landslide vote to secede, its leader said Wednesday. The region -- home to ...
Bougainville, nearly as big as Hawaii’s main island and just as stunning, is the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.
The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...
By 1988, the simmering anger of a group of militant landowners erupted in a campaign of sabotage and harassment of ... Although a ceasefire was negotiated with the Bougainville Revolutionary Army in ...