Marian Faa

Program: Pacific Beat Papua New Guinea and the Australian government are closing in on a $600m deal to grant PNG an NRL team.

Program: The World Today Presented by Papua New Guinea's dream of joining Australia's NRL competition is inching closer to reality.

The prime minister has refused to say what security guarantees Australia wants from Papua New Guinea in return for backing the Pacific country's bid for an NRL team.

Residents of Papua New Guinea's Porgera region say they're fearful a "new brand of tribal warfare" has started after gunmen stormed a passenger bus, killing at least six people.

The Bank of China is on track to establish its first branch in Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby.

An ABC investigation has linked the Australian businessmen behind Papua New Guinea's largest agroforestry project to key figures in a massive Indigenous land grab scandal in the country's Western Province more than a decade ago.

A new 1.8 billion dollar "agro-forestry" project in remote Papua New Guinea is set to be the biggest the country has ever seen.

Papua New Guinea's prime minister says his country's bid to join the NRL doesn't hinge upon a security pact, despite Australian government sources

On the eve of this year's State of Origin grand final, a Papua New Guinean colleague gifted me two bright "bilum hats" — woven beanies in the traditional style of his home in the highlands of PNG.

Papua New Guinea is set to get its own rugby league team in the Australian NRL by 2028, after an announcement was made by the Prime Ministers of the two countries and the NRL today.