This was at the beginning of a conflict that in the 1990s would develop into the deadliest in the Pacific region since World War II. The Bougainville crisis is estimated to have claimed up to ...

The ensuing centuries brought a string of occupiers: the German Empire, Australians and Japan, which seized Bougainville ...

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, General Montcalm's aide-de-camp, was diminutive, overweight, asthmatic and possessed a good military mind. As he had already written two books on mathematics and was ...

The deadline to express interest in the project, which will be built in three phases on Buka Island in Papua New Guinea, is ...

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 ...