Our readers were focused on the future in 2025, with articles on key resources projects, growth plans and the turnaround proposal for an embattled state-owned enterprise all featuring heavily in Business Advantage PNG‘s top-read articles for the year. Not surprisingly in PNG’s jubilee year, there was also high interest for coverage of Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence.
Papua New Guinea’s 2026 National Budget, delivered last week, outlines record government spending, while keeping PNG on track to achieve a budget surplus by 2027. It also shifts the narrative “towards opportunity”, as one expert notes, with investments in key development priorities. We take a closer look at the implications for business.
Foreign exchange shortages have been the biggest impediment to business in Papua New Guinea for more than a decade. But the situation has improved dramatically in 2025, and businesses are reaping the benefits, as leading CEOs share with Business Advantage PNG.
While the timing of a final investment decision on Papua LNG remains uncertain, Papua New Guinean businesses are busy preparing for an announcement. Business Advantage PNG reports.
On the eve of his departure from Papua New Guinea, the International Monetary Fund’s Resident Representative to the country, Sohrab Rafiq, reviews the impact of the IMF’s program in PNG with Andrew Wilkins.
After almost a decade of no increases and a lengthy consultation period, the Minimum Wages Board has declared a landmark increase in Papua New Guinea’s minimum wage. Charlotte Armstrong reports.
As Papua New Guinea celebrates its 50th anniversary, Business Advantage PNG takes a look at some of the key economic events in its history and key players in business and commerce that have played an important role in its development.
Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Development Company is one of the country’s largest institutional investors, with more than K12 billion in assets under management. Its Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO John Tuaim revealed five areas where more investment is needed at this month’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.
Speakers at this year’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference touched on a range of key themes, including the need to strengthen the country’s institutions and its ‘human capacity’, and provided updates on key projects such as PNG Power’s turnaround plan, major resources projects and the strategies of leading banks and financial institutions.
Richard Maru, Papua New Guinea’s Minister for International Trade and Investment, outlined the Marape-Rosso government’s wide-ranging plans to transform the economy in the opening speech at the 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.