The figurine can be found in Bougainville, a little-known island in the South Pacific ... built at the base of a lush mountain near the town of Arawa. Then in the late 1980s, war erupted in ...

It’s an island with a weak government and no ... The mining giant Rio Tinto can attest to that. In Bougainville, on a ...

Yet the world could be set to welcome a new country in as little as two years, as a small island has held a referendum, resulting in an almost 100% vote in favour of independence. Bougainville ...

THE PORTILLO EXPEDITION: MYSTERY ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND examines the circumstances surrounding the death of Isoroku Yamamoto – the Japanese WWII Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor surprise ...

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Bougainville Island collection is a snapshot of the island just after WWII. The collection connects the museum and its visitors with the people ...

Dr. Jeffrey Noro and Junior Novera are the manager and co-founder of the Kainake Project in Bougainville Island, and partners to the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s Bougainville ...

Rio Tinto says it is willing to discuss the future of the island's Panguna copper mine with concerned locals. Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper’s Panguna mine has lain dormant since 1988 ...