Tag: security
‘There must be clarity’ – PNG students protest over US defence deal
By Scott Waide and Lydia Lewis
University students in Papua New Guinea are protesting against the signing of a defence cooperation agreement with the United...
PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...
PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run shot dead
RNZ Pacific
A curfew has been imposed in part of Papua New Guinea and extra police have been moved in to quell unrest over the...
PNG soldiers shock with Boroko street takeover in security uproar
PNG Post-Courier
A small speeding vehicle allegedly driven by an off-duty soldier set off a chain reaction this week that saw two security guards taken...
Tikoduadua asks Fiji’s police chief to resign over ‘matters of confidence’
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji’s Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration has invited the Commissioner of Police to resign, citing concerns on matters of confidence in...
Showdown between two former coup leaders in fight for Fiji’s democracy
By Ravindra Singh Prasad in Suva
It is an ironic fact in Fiji, a multiethnic Pacific nation of under one million people, that coups don’t...