The next two America-class amphibious assault ships are each facing a one-year delay, USNI News has learned. The future USS ...

More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping to enter ...

"To demand that Bougainville should meet some economic threshold or be economically independent before political independence ...

The Bougainville provincial government still plans to go ahead with secession moves, even though a meeting yesterday postponed the setting of a breakaway date.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government, through the Department of Treasury and Finance, is modernizing its public finance ...

Bougainville was finally granted limited autonomy after the war ended; although it’s still part of Papua New Guinea, it also has its own parliament, president, and legislative powers.

The residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence. Find out how to travel there and what to do when you arrive.

And, if the poll goes as expected, Bougainville could become the world's next country. The islands' history includes colonial exploitation, attempts at independence, a nine-year war and a gradual ...

Bougainville could be the world’s newest nation, as Pacific island goes to polls Twenty years in waiting, decades more in the making, and steeped in blood, 200,000 Bougainvilleans will cast ...

The residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence. Find out how to travel there and what to do when you arrive.

For Bougainville — an area with huge mineral wealth and 250,000 people — the vote also makes it much harder for Papua New Guinea to move slowly through the consultation period required under ...