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.

Border Force will need to decide which fishing boats and crew are from PNG and which might be fronts for Chinese operators from the “multi-faceted” facility.

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.

TEMPO.CO, Jayapura - A border liaison meeting between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) will be organized in Port Moresby, PNG, on Nov. 7-8, 2016.. The meeting will discuss, among other things, ...

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 ...

Australia, however, was cautious about instability in PNG and the risk of being drawn into a conflict along its land border with Indonesia. As such, it didn’t provide a commitment to defend PNG.