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.

Overseas associates of missing man John Beckenridge, who abducted his 11-year-old stepson last year, are working with New Zealand police to track the pair down.

7.9 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea prompting a tsunami warning, however there have been no reports of injuries.

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

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.

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.

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.

Incredible footage of a volcanic eruption shown sending a powerful shockwave rippling through the clouds above it has been captured by a holidaymaker.

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.