The US Navy has made a strategic call for the first time in decades in a bid to counter the Chinese military’s ambitions to expand in the Pacific region. The USN has begun projects at the ...

Papua New Guinea's foreign affairs minister says he is investigating reports that five Indonesians may be dead after PNG's navy deliberately sank the boat they were on. Indonesia's official news ...

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Australia is to help Papua New Guinea (PNG) develop a navy base and train police, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday, the latest Australian action to protect its interests in the ...

A Royal Australian Navy ship is returning home after playing an important role in a US-led humanitarian mission in Papua New Guinea. For the past week, HMAS Tobruk has stepped in as the command ship ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian navy vessels trying to halt gun-running in the Solomon Islands would not be able to pursue smugglers into Papua New Guinea ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian war ships will make port visits to an enlarged naval base on Papua New Guinea, expanding the Navy’s presence to Australia’s ...

The Defence Minister has confirmed Australia could permanently base Navy ships in Papua New Guinea under an agreement to redevelop a naval base at Manus Island. Christopher Pyne told Sky News the ...

The captain of a boat which left Australian waters after offloading a record 1.8 tonnes of cocaine into a fishing trawler, leading to the arrests of three people, has been shot after a confrontation ...