Amagnitude6.7earthquakestruckPapuaNewGuinea’smountainousSouthernHighlandsonWednesdaykillingatleast18people,anofficialsaid,aweekafteralargerquakeflattenedvillage
ChineseVicePremierWangYangmetonWednesdaywithPapuaNewGuinean(PNG)PrimeMinisterPeterO'Neill,withthetwoinGuangzhoufortheopeningceremonyofthe2017FortuneGlobalForum.
An Indonesian search team on Tuesday (Nov 1) found the wreckage of a cargo plane along with the bodies of four crew members in a mountainous part of the country, a government official said.
Australia and Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention center on Manus Island, although the ultimate fate of 800 refugees held in the camp remained unclear.
Indonesia on Wednesday briefly detained more than 1,000 pro-independence demonstrators in its eastern province of Papua, ahead of a visit by a top security official to look into claims of human rights violations.
A helicopter crashed in Papua province of eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing the pilot and wounding three others, senior local police officer said.
A small passenger plane with 54 people on board lost contact in Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, on Sunday, the Transport Ministry said.