Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed a sporting deal accompanied by strategic and confidential security pact that is ...

Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal linked to limiting Chinese ...

In separate agreements with Nauru, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Australia is attempting to edge out China’s ...

A team from the Pacific nation will join Australia’s National Rugby League in a $400 million deal that deepens ties while ...

The "soft power" aspect to this sports diplomacy initiative has never been a secret. But in the game of regional politics, ...

Australia is banking on sports diplomacy to lure Papua New Guinea away from China’s sphere of influence. It has signed an ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood alongside Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape in Sydney on Thursday to ...

A historic $600m deal to give Papua New Guinea an NRL team has dashed China’s hopes for a security pact with Australia’s ...

SYDNEY: Australia will spend US$385 million to establish a team from Papua New Guinea in its rugby league competition, Prime ...

China has pursued its own bilateral security pact on policing with Papua New Guinea and with other South Pacific island nations which U.S. allies, including Australia, fear could undermine ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced Thursday linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.