Bougainville, an autonomous archipelago currently part of Papua New Guinea, is determined to become the world's newest country. To support ...

A MAJOR step in bolstering Bougainville's maritime security was realised last Friday with the arrival of the patrol vessel MV ...

'Bougainville has the best deep-water port in the third island chain,' Kuhns emphasized. 'There are island chains that ring Asia and essentially protect China from us, and protect us from China.' ...

Bougainville, nearly as big as Hawaii’s main island and just as stunning, is the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.

Bougainville Island lays northeast of Australia and east of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea. People first settled on the island 33,000 years ago, and it is a place of cultural and biological ...

At a ceremony marking the completion of a runway at an airport in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, the ...

Some Australian officials, who have often voiced dissatisfaction with China's cooperation with Pacific Island countries, seem ...

The Soloman Islands, another small Pacific archipelago nation, lie just to the east of Bougainville. At 3,623 square miles, the country would be one of the world’s smallest upon its independence ...

Stunning tropical island that's stuffed with gold and treasures should be Trump's 51st state, resident says. By ALEXA CIMINO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM. Published: 18:27 EDT, 26 April 2025 | Updated: 22:38 ...