At a ceremony marking the completion of a runway at an airport in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, the ...

The Panguna mine has been the cause of immense social and environmental suffering, but it’s also seen as Bougainville’s main resource to achieve independence.

Bougainville Continues Its Struggle For Independence The region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019, but realizing this in practice has been far from straightforward.

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama is seeking international investors to re-open one of the world's biggest copper mines, with Marape backing his authority on Wednesday.

Political deadlock frustrates Bougainville’s aspirations of independence The territory voted in 2019 to leave Papua New Guinea, but the country’s parliament is still to ratify the separation.

Is Bougainville the next battleground between China and the U.S.? The Pacific region is hoping a huge, abandoned copper-and-gold mine will be its ticket for independence from Papua New Guinea.

A lucky woman, Elizabeth Maikei is the lucky winner for the Traditional category for the Skel Rice Back-to-School promotion. The traditional category is where you buy a rice packet, cut out the logo, ...

The name “Bougainville” (pronounced Bo-gan-ville) is etched into the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Americans with long memories may recall Bougainville’s role in World War II ...

The Bougainville Crisis encompassed several overlapping layers of conflict. The crisis had begun as a dispute over the Panguna copper mine in Central Bougainville between local landowners and the mine ...

It has been more than three years since the people of Bougainville voted to decide their political future. The 2019 referendum, that saw 97.7 per cent of voters express a desire for independence over ...

Richard Marles raises suspicion that Australia intends to interfere in PNG-Bougainville relations for its own strategic interests.

Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company ...