“Our research has found the elusive first links between fossil material that suggest dingoes have evolved locally from an ...

New archaeological research by the University of Sydney has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the ...

The cost of Australia’s offshore detention program has reached an astronomical $12.1 billion, with the PNG deal still clouded ...

Brazil, 234. The island of New Guinea, which the nation of Papua New Guinea shares with the Indonesian state of Irian Jaya, is home to just 0.1 percent of the world's population, yet its residents ...

Ethnonationalism has been a significant manifestation of ethnic conflict in New Order Indonesia. In conflicts in East Timor, Irian Jaya, and Aceh, groups identified as “East Timorese,” “Papuan,” and ...

Though hafts have not been recovered from Japanese sites of the period, they adopted methods from Irian Jaya to attach a ...

The findings challenges previous claims that dingoes derived from pariah dogs from India or Thailand. Dr Loukas Koungoulos scanning a specimen ...

Also in July, a series of pro-independence demonstrations broke out in towns across Irian Jaya on the anniversary of a 1961 proclamation of independence by an armed nationalist group, the Free ...

From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Irian Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice fields, monstrous glaciers, and sea ice are disappearing, fast. When temperatures rise ...

In 1973, the name was again changed, to Irian Jaya. This controversial history led to the formation of movements among the local elites calling for Papua to become an independent state. Though ...

The new government faces separatist activities in the provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya, East Timor has yet to recover from its vote for independence, and ethnic violence has recently erupted in ...

travel on to New Guinea to visit the Dani tribe in Irian Jaya to learn of the harsh realities of child birth and death in that society. Back in West Yorkshire, UK, we stroll around the author's ...