Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific Senior Journalist. Bougainville has gone through many turbulent periods over the past 100 years, not least the Civil War of the 1990s, which claimed as many as 20,000 lives.

Miss Papua New Guinea, May Hasola, received a profoundly emotional welcome upon her arrival in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville today, marking the start of a significant cultural and promotional ...

THE 20th Bougainville Foundation Day celebration at Hutjena Oval on Monday was graced by a distinguished local figure, Miss Bird of Paradise and Miss Papua New Guinea, May Hasola.

Combat and life on Bougainville were rugged; the Japs were on the island in force, frantically building new airfields and resisting every U.S. effort to widen the beachheads on Empress Augusta Bay.

So when Paul the local tourism chairman tells us the cultural show will begin at 8am today, we have to first figure out if he's talking Bougainville time or Moresby time (which plenty of people ...

The first hearing date has been set in a class action against miner Rio Tinto for historical environmental and social damage caused by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea that it ...

The leader of the South Pacific island of Bougainville aims to reopen the giant Panguna mine, which holds billions of dollars worth of copper, gold and silver. And he’s visiting the US to rally ...

Ingalls Shipbuilding christened the U.S. Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship, the future USS Bougainville (LHA 8), during dockside ceremonies at the Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard Saturday morning.

Bougainville looks to reopen mine that sparked Pacific island civil war. Reopening the Panguna copper complex is seen as central to region’s drive for independence from Papua New Guinea.

When Bougainville Copper last reported its December 2024 balance sheet in February 2025, it had zero debt and cash worth K21m. In the last year, its cash burn was K14m. Therefore, from December ...

Francis Ona was described as "a leader who became a legend" Francis Ona, the man who launched a bloody 10-year war for independence in Papua New Guinea's island province of Bougainville, has died. He ...

But in 2002 the Bougainville government had sent me as a youth to represent Bouganville at the Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival in Fiji, so that is where got interested in tourism.