The kina shells on her necklace are a status symbol. Shells were legal currency in Papua New Guinea until 1933, and they’re still used to purchase brides and settle blood feuds. The local ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural ... its former colonial ruler. Other socio-cultural challenges could upend the economy including chronic law and order and land tenure issues.

The vast geographic variation of Papua New Guinea created tremendous biological diversity, which in turn was accompanied by enormous cultural diversity: more than 800 languages in a country about ...