EMMA WAKPI | Supported by the Rob & Meg Parer Writing Fellowship MY DEAREST MOTHERLAND, I am writing this letter on the eve of Christmas to let you know how much I love and appreciate you. This time of the...
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Merry Christmas PNG, with love from Emma
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Containers of hope bring life-saving equipment
PRWEB DESPERATELY NEEDED biomedical equipment including defibrillators, infant incubators and sonogram machines are en route to Papua New Guinea. The humanitarian shipment of four “containers of hope” was made possible through grants from ExxonMobil and Maersk Line. The containers are...
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Brother's transplant saves Dr Kendaura’s life
ALISON BRANLEY | Newcastle Herald (NSW) GAINING access to health care in Papua New Guinea is difficult but becomes even more important when the doctor delivering the services gets sick too. That is what happened at Goroka Hospital when acting...
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Life’s journey
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship I am still bed ridden. Fortunately my work station is custom-made with wheels so it is now beside my bed where I can do whatever I have to...
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Christians say a law against polygamy is urgent
Agenzia Fides POLYGAMY IS NOT JUST an anti-Christian practice and against the moral law, but it is also a social threat and this is why a law to prevent it is urgent, say Christian communities in Papua New Guinea. With...
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PNG spending plans worry Asian Development Bank
JEMIMA GARRETT | ABC THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK says Papua New Guinea's big-spending budget holds risks that will need to be carefully managed. PNG's 2013 budget calls for a 23% increase in spending. The bank says the PNG economy remains...
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A poet’s journey 8: Use your imagination....
MICHAEL DOM IN MY CONTRIBUTION of short notes on writing poetry, I have left one primary ingredient till last. It is probably taken for granted but deserves to be mentioned, and I offer my own interpretation. Imagination in writing poetry...
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Patch offers pain-free way to stop disease in PNG
The Guardian (UK) THE "NANOPATCH" IS ABOUT a square centimetre in size, it administers a minute, needle-free vaccine dose to a person's skin, dramatically reduces costs and needs neither to be administered by trained medical staff nor to be refrigerated....
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The political economy of a pig farmer’s life
MICHAEL DOM Until you have seen your hands blistering Until you have felt sweat break like fever Before another new gardens planting Until you have cleaned the piss and manure Cut, carried and replaced sodden bedding Until you have closed...
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Parallel histories – Steamships Trading Co and PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICK ‘Steamships Trading Company 1918-2008: A History’ by James Sinclair, Alan Caudell and Associates, Palm Cove Qld., 2008, 468pp. Around $300 or K450 if you can find a copy. I understand Bill Mcgrath at Pacific Bookhouse has one for...
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PNG – no gun required in mission to thwart China
GARY TORRES | San Juan Record I WAS MORE THAN A LITTLE SURPRISED when I picked up the phone one morning and it was the United States State Department. Just like in the 1994 movie True Lies with Swhwarzenegger and...
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It's a funny thing being married to a white man
ROSE KRANZ Following a recent discussion in PNG Attitude about difficulties in some cross-cultural marriages, Rose Kranz offers some advice…. IT'S A FUNNY AND STRANGE THING being married to a white man. He doesn't fully understand your traditions, family background...
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In praise of our alma mater and our benefactors
JANE AWI QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY is truly a prestigious university with world class learning facilities and the best teaching staff who are leaders in their areas of expertise. They have volumes of publications, research and corporate experiences that draw...
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New book: Jared Diamond’s PNG adventures
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR and anthropologist Jared Diamond has written a new book on his decades of field work in Papua New Guinea. The World Until Yesterday is Diamond’s most personal book to date,...
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Looking upon us with sad envy: reflections on the PNG Way
MICHAEL DOM I LIKE VERY MUCH Jeffrey Febi’s statement that "many a brother or a sister from another country looks to us with sad envy; so many resource projects, yet we appear wretchedly poor." I have seen this look of...
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Fifty shades of Kiap: of stayers, players & ne’er-do-wells
BILL BROWN | Ex Kiap Website WERE THERE EVER fifty shades of kiap? Were they shades, or were they eras? The fifties, the 1950s, were the black-and-white years; for photography - and for race relations. Port Moresby was a white...
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PNG Attitude's good wishes for a 2013 that will be an exceptional year for our readers and contributors and for the Papua New Guinea-Australia relationship
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Charges dropped in PNG-Taiwan diplomacy scandal
China Times THE TAIPEI DISTRICT PROSECUTORS OFFICE has decided not to press charges against two former senior officials for their roles in the high-profile Papua New Guinea diplomacy scandal. The prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to press charges...
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Sex enhancement products on Kundiawa’s streets
BERNARD YEGIORA | Twitter A STREET SELLER IN KUNDIAWA came up to me and offered me a packet of Viagra cream for K40. He touted the cream for K40, then K20 and finally K10. I politely told him that I...
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Bolga ingu – the pig kill as a victim of modernisation
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship SIMBU’S MOST CELEBRATED, friendship fostering, peacemaking, wealth and leadership mentoring tradition, the bolga ingu [pig kill], has sadly waned into the history lane through the callous forces of...
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