Australia has been tightening the border between PNG and the Torres Strait Islands in recent years, exacerbating poverty and the spread of tuberculosis in villages that depend on cross-border trade.

Searching for a way to curb fatal border shootings, Border Patrol leaders decided in 2008 that their agents needed a new weapon on their belts.The agency began to supply Tasers, a hand-held device ...

The PNG and Indonesia border stretches for more than 800 kilometres across rugged terrain and Commander Ibsagi said police don't have the resources to police it. "Here in West Sepik, it's very hard.

However, the drone was also spotted from the PNG mainland, at least 6 kilometres inland from the coast. "These drones could … help the Chinese better understand the environment they're operating in.

There’s a Border Force presence on Thursday Island. It’s focused on illegal fishing, particularly by Indonesian fisherman, and on stopping drug and human smuggling from PNG to northern Australia.

In 1993, an attempt by PNG forces to annex an island in the Solomon Islands group provoked a tense stand-off along the sea border between the two countries. Australia was under increasing pressure ...

WASHINGTON — Searching for a way to curb fatal border shootings, Border Patrol leaders decided in 2008 that their agents needed a new weapon on their belts.The agency began to supply Tasers, a ...