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.

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 ...

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 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.

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.