As a teenage infantryman in the 7th Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War he "spent the final 18 months" of the war "extending out into the jungles" of the interior and south and ...

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...

Bougainville’s decade-long conflict formally ended with the signing of the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA). This established the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARB) and set in train a ...

Bougainville Electoral Commissioner, Desmond Tsianai said OBEC is committed and is ready to deliver the elections for the 5th Bougainville House of Representatives this year. “Preparations towards ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

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Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...