A violent tribal clash has left at least 30 people dead and 15 missing in Papua New Guinea’s remote Trobriand Islands, often referred to as the “islands of love.” The bloodshed erupted on Monday, resulting from a longstanding dispute between two villages that originated during a football match two months ago, linked to the country’s general election in July. The violence escalated... 

Two white academics—one from Britain and the other from the Netherlands—have been forced to flee for their lives from Papua New Guinea after trying to persuade their employers at two universities that cheating, an inability to do simple math, and the appointment of staff on tribal allegiances rather than merit, was a bad idea. The nearly-comical antics of the two whites—both race-denying liberals... 

Chaos is looming in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Manus Island detention camp—built to house nonwhites who attempted to illegally invade Australia—as its closing day, October 31, approaches, with inmates barricading themselves inside the camp, locals arming themselves, and the PNG government saying that the invaders are “Australia’s problem.” The Manus center is being closed after being declared... 

Australia’s highest court has ruled that the country’s policy of sending asylum seekers to migrant camps in Papua New Guinea is valid. Thursday’s decision by the High Court of Australia follows a ruling by Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court last year that found Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on the Pacific nation’s Manus Island was unconstitutional. Both Australia and Papua New... 

There was a tsunami warning issued after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit east of New Guinea on Saturday. Russia Today reported: A powerful earthquake, initially measured at magnitude 8.0, has hit east of Papua New Guinea, according to the US Geological Survey. The tremor prompted New Zealand’s Civil Defense to issue a tsunami warning, which was soon canceled. The quake initially struck about 157... 

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck off Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported. This is just two days after a 7.4-magnitude jolt shook the southern coast. The quake, which struck 150km southwest of the town of Arawa, appears to be relatively shallow. There have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties, Reuters says. A tsunami alert has been issued by the Pacific... 

View of Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands A tsunami warning has been issued after a strong, 7.5-magnitude quake hit near the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific for the second time in hours. It follows a 7.6-quake that rocked the region overnight. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake, later revised down to 7.5, was centered about 114 kilometers south of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands,... 

At least three people have died after an Australia-bound boat carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of Indonesia, with up to 157 people rescued. The boat, carrying 175 people, all of them Iranians and Sri Lankans, encountered harsh sea conditions and simply broke up, Australian media reported. More than a dozen people are still unaccounted for as search and rescue operation continue. Two children,... 

Australia’s Prime Minster Kevin Rudd (R) and his Papua New Guinea counterpart, Peter O’Neill, sign an agreement on asylum seekers in Brisbane on July 19, 2013. Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed an agreement with Papua New Guinea to send all asylum-seekers arriving by boat to the poverty-stricken island nation, a move strongly condemned by multiculturalism groups. Rudd and... 

NASA photo of Nendo, the largest of the Santa Cruz Islands An 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Wednesday. At least five people died as the disaster reportedly flattened several coastal villages. Five people were confirmed dead in the disaster. They were two elderly men, two elderly women and a boy aged between 10 and 12, local medics said. The epicenter of... 

A juvenile Brookesia micra chameleon sits on the head of a match. Scientists say a chameleon species that has been recently discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar is the smallest of its kind ever found. A team of scientists has found four new chameleon species in northern Madagascar including Brookesia micra, which is small enough to easily perch on a match head. As one of the world’s smallest... 

Residents of a Papua New Guinea mining town say they found a man with a history of drug abuse allegedly eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony. Police said locals on the outskirts of the town of Tabubil, in Western Province, woke on Thursday to the screams of the baby. Beset with the grisly sight of the father allegedly eating his child, an angry mob chased him to the... 

Like clockwork, they have emerged from the wood: the first of what promises to be an ever increasing wave of Third World “climate change” refugees seeking asylum in the First World. The inhabitants of some islands in east Papua New Guinea have appealed for “funds to enable them to flee” and have expressed the hope that “decisions made by leaders at the forthcoming climate change negotiations... 

Police reinforcements have been rushed to a remote part of Papua New Guinea after officers clashed with a shadowy cult accused of beheading villagers and offering them as human sacrifices. Several people were reportedly killed and many injured after gun battles broke out between police and members of the cult, based in the mountains of Morobe province on PNG’s north coast. Religious cults flourish...