By Damian Baker: As part of our new focus on development and human rights issues, theangle.org is reposting old articles printed on the site which still have a high degree of revelance. We start with co-founder Damian Baker’s trip to Papua New Guinea in November 2009 where he encountered the lives of the people...
By Damian Baker Joint venture partners in Papua New Guinea’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) development announced the go ahead of one of the country’s largest resources projects in a statement earlier this week. The AU$16.5 billion project will proceed, subject to the signing of final agreements. The consortium of companies involved in the operation...
By Damian Baker: The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project is the biggest of its type in the history of PNG. Oil was found in the southern highlands 20 years ago but gas has emerged as the energy hope for the future. An Australian company, Oil Search, is in the process of developing its gas...
By Damian Baker: After a somewhat tense introduction we finally got to meet and talk with the leader of the remnants of the Bougainville militia General Chris Uma. Following the initial breaking of the ice, as General Uma seemed to realise we were there to tell his story, he relaxed and came across as...
By Damian Baker: Blood could again be spilled in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville if negotiations to restart the Panguna gold and copper mine are successful. Remnant members of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), now known as the Mekamui Defence Force, have said their demands must be met before they will...
theangle.org's Damian Baker previews his next assignment in the eastern Highlands town of Kainantu.
Lae city in Papua New Guinea’s eastern Morobe Province is struggling to cope with another outbreak of cholera.
Porgera is nestled in a valley in the PNG highlands shadowed on one side by 300-meter rock walls, with all other approaches covered in dense tropical jungle.
