Instilling the importance of nutritious food in families is helping improve health in communities blighted by overcrowding.

In the remote Barai village in Madang province, teacher Louis Kumana worries about his school's attendance rate.

International Woman's Day finds efforts to modernise traditional practices improving grim statistics around maternal mortality.

Each day we report on a particular problem for the Pacific, showcasing how World Vision has helped. Today, fishing to survive.

Clarke Gayford and Mike Scott visit isolated communities in Papua New Guinea as part of a World Vision fundraiser and find scenes straight out of a horror movie.

Just one thing going wrong had a devastating effect on an entire village in Papua New Guinea.

The people of Rarata village in the Solomon Islands were walking up to 7km every day to quench their thirst.

In the village of Hanuabada, children swim among soiled nappies and unsafe water kills. But there is hope.

The Herald's latest appeal with World Vision will help our Pacific neighbours.

The tsunami warning for New Zealand followed an earthquake in Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is still the world as it was, discovers Peter Hughes.

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.

In April this year, 11 women in Porgera, Enga Province, were awarded undisclosed compensation payments for brutal rapes they suffered over a number of years by members of the mine's security workforce.

Tribal rituals, war relics and the legendary 'Queen of lovemaking and drinking' are just the tip of Rabaul's iceberg, finds Andrew Stone.

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.

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force rescued passengers from a plane crash in Papua New Guinea.