Bougainville’s leaders speak of something much grander. They’re open to hosting a permanent US military base available to any ...

The region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019, but realizing this in practice has been far ...

The island in question is Bougainville, which is around the same size as Hawaii’s main island and is home to around 300,000 people. Along with Buka, the island is geographically part of the ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...

This article shows that the Bougainville conflict origins involved far more complexity than natural resource revenue distribution grievances, and that the conflict itself then generated new sources of ...

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Bougainville Island collection is a snapshot of the island just after WWII. The collection connects the museum and its visitors with the people ...

LONDON, Mar 17 2025 (IPS) - Local communities are finally witnessing progress in their mission for justice, 36 years after the Panguna copper mine in Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Region of ...

The license spans 261 km2 in the Crown Prince Range of Central Bougainville, approximately nine kilometres southeast from the historic Panguna copper gold mine (Figure 1). The high point of 2024 ...