The United States has agreed to consider taking refugees from Australian detention centres, Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference in New Zealand.

The 854 asylum-seekers on Manus Island only have two choices: settle in Papua New Guinea or return home.

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he's concerned by reports of violent clashes between students and police in Papua New Guinea.

The students say police fired shots directly into the crowd in Port Moresby, who were protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

The All Whites crunch semifinal match in Port Moresby will go ahead as planned despite the shooting of students by police in the city today.

PNG is a rare and exotic cruise destination of misty mountains, smoking volcanoes, jungle drums, bare-breasted dancers and shy excited smiles from locals.

The fate of a NZ submariner who vanished with his vessel 101 years ago could finally be settled by a mission in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

New Zealand Defence Force engineers and tradies are helping counterparts in Papua New Guinea build a 350km highway that will link more than 100 remote mountain villages.

The eruption of a volcano on a small Papua New Guinean island on July 31 has again wreaked havoc on the lives of its inhabitants.

Australia's foreign affairs department has revealed it investigated the misuse of Australian aid money in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, East Timor, Afghanistan and Somalia.

A new helpline assisting survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Papua New Guinea has been launched with the help of New Zealanders.

New Zealand won't have a men's football team at the Rio Olympics after they were stripped of their place in tonight's qualifier final.

It will be an extremely demanding campaign, with five games in 10 days for the eventual finalists, all played in unforgiving tropical sun and humidity.

Dr John Momis will lead a new Government that must make profound decisions about the political fate of the autonomous region in the east of Papua New Guinea (PNG) during the next five-year term.

Asylum-seekers on Manus Island are said to be sewing their lips together and swallowing razor blades and detergent in protest at their treatment.

Two men from Papua New Guinea have told rescuers they survived almost five months adrift in a tiny open boat in the Pacific by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater.

A volcano erupted yesterday in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of local communities, seismologists and reports said.

A New Zealand woman is recovering in an Australian hospital after being shot by a stray bullet during a gun battle in Papua New Guinea.

A New Zealander working as a guard at the Manus Island detention camp has been identified as taking part in a fatal attack on an Iranian asylum-seeker, Australian media reports.

The warm welcome at PNG's Kiriwina Island leaves cruise passenger Paul Rush smiling.

Peace reigns after inter-tribal war, writes Paul Rush.

Papua New Guinea's flying start to the World Cup qualifying tournament has come as no surprise to their best-known player.

A New Zealander who survived a deadly ambush while trekking in the Papua New Guinea highlands says he is committed to supporting the local porters hurt in the attack.

Police in Papua New Guinea are still hunting for two men believed to have taken part in an attack on a group of trekkers including a New Zealander.

A New Zealand man injured in an attack on a group of trekkers in PNG has arrived safely in the country's capital, as a fellow trekker describes their horror.

A New Zealander injured in an attack on a group of trekkers in Papua New Guinea is comfortable and on his way back to the country's capital.