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Simbu Province is staring down a humanitarian crisis as El Niño enters its second month, with drinking water sources drying up, food gardens failing, and bushfires destroying crops and forest.

Another body has been recovered in the search for the 27 passengers who went missing three days ago after a boat incident in New Ireland Province.

The Somare Institute of Leadership and Governance [SILAG] has outlined its proposed governance and financial reforms in a draft legislation as it moves closer to becoming a university.

After serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Special Economic Zones Authority [SEZA] for four years, Kikila Yavase has been appointed as the authority's Chief Executive Officer for the next four years.

Motor Vehicles Insurance Limited [MVIL] has announced plans to sign similar agreements with Provincial Health Authorities across Papua New Guinea after recently signed its first Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with the National Capital District Provincial Health Authority [NCDPHA].

The University of Papua New Guinea [UPNG] is planning to establish partnerships with leading universities from China, the United States and Australia to set up satellite and sister campuses on its Waigani campus.

Intending candidates for the coming 2027 National General Election, supporters as well as the general public in Madang Province have been urged not to politicise the current police recruitment drive that is penetrating right down to the district level.

Police have frozen K4 million in suspected stolen public funds held in the bank account of a foreign-owned company.

Of the two prisoners still on the run after the recent Baisu Correctional Institution breakout, one has been shot dead during a dawn raid by a joint Police and Correctional Service operation, leaving only one escapee still at large.

PNG Power is selling electricity for less than it costs to buy it, outgoing minister William Duma says, warning that the pricing system has left the state-owned company struggling financially.