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Holistic approach is needed to tackle corruption in PNG
BERNARD YEGIORAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismTHE first time I heard about corruption and its different attributes was in an...
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Writing bears witness to emergence of a new PNG intelligentsia
CHRIS OVERLANDIT was most enjoyable to read the article, Exorcising his demons, Captain Bougainville writes for the future, and find out a bit more about Leonard Fong Roka (pictured) and what motivates...
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The Crocodile Prize – part of our living culture
MICHAEL DOMIN Papua New Guinea it seems that literature - like art, drama and dance - exists mainly for entertainment, or as an indicator of sophistication or intellectual status. Perhaps it is also...
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Melanesian Arts Festival security chiefs inspect NCD venues
OALA MOI | Ministry of Tourism, Arts & CultureMEMBERS of the security subcommittee of the 5th Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture made security assessments of two major festival venues last...
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Post-Courier publisher & journalist found guilty of contempt
CEDRIC PATJOLE | Pacific Media WatchTHE publisher of the Post-Courier newspaper, South Pacific Post Ltd (SPP), and veteran journalist Todagia Kelola, have been found guilty of contempt and will be...
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Tumbi landslide: NGO appalled at allegations against ExxonMobil
JUBILEE AUSTRALIAINVESTIGATIVE journalists have raised damning allegations about ExxonMobil’s role in a landslide in Papua New Guinea which killed 27 people near the company’s liquefied natural gas...
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The boy who conquered the paaro of Tairengku
LEONARD FONG ROKAThe first entry in The Crocodile Prize Buk bilong Pikinini Writing for Children AwardIN the hills of Ioro there was a little, lonely village that people from far and wide called...
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HEZRON WANGI JRAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryAnd so the story unfolds, Sits him amidst the crowd, Indifferent, vulgar – he screams aloud No one can hear his anger-ire...
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A new broom on Manus is lifting the veil of secrecy
PHIL FITZPATRICKONE of the inherent problems with secrecy is that it immediately creates suspicion. This is particularly so if the secrecy is part of government policy. Secrecy is fertile ground for...
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ALBERT KAUPA TOBEAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryWho am I? A result of my past My future a result of my present How do I respond to my present? I serve because I seek...
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Queensland bikies & Nigerian syndicates run drugs out of PNG
PETER MICHAEL | The Courier-MailBIKIES have teamed up with Nigerian crime syndicates to launder offshore money in real estate, shares, and bonds in an illicit drugs-for-cash racket out of Papua New...
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MICHAEL GEKETAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryOnce a PNG poet Sought poetic insight;He fronted at UPNG, The academic sighed.Write more! He inspired.See the rainbow? Go...
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Policewoman
BETTY WAKIAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryPolicewoman in her uniform blue She is summer, winter and spring In country, state or province She is sunny, windy and rainy...
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Troubles loom in Yangoru-Saussia as land grab inflames emotions
BARBARA SHORTLAST year I was invited to join the Sepik Region development discussion forum on Facebook.Over the past few months we have discussed many topics and I have had many wonderful reunions with...
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STACEY TARURAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryThis was written as a reflection on the changes that have taken place since the innocent days of childhood when there was a...
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Bougainville weapons disposal stalls as ex-combatants resist
LEONARD FONG ROKAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismINTERVIEWED on camera for the 1999 documentary, Coconut Revolution, the late...
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Tracking the ancient obsidian trade on Manus Island
DR ROBIN TORRENCE | Australian MuseumTHE discovery of an obsidian source on Manus Island has revealed ancient trading patterns in Papua New Guinea.Obsidian was widely traded on Manus where it was...
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Down at the grassroots: A week with the people of Marum village
REILLY KANAMONAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismIT was so cold that I had pulled my bed sheet over my whole body. Yet a chill breeze...
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Bialla's oil palm problems must not be repeated in the Sepik
ARNOLD PATIKENI am a second generation of the Sepiks who travelled from their mama ground to develop the oil palm industry that is generating millions of kina for the national government revenue and...
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Mike Dennis MBE, Rabaul-born soldier, dies at 67
NOEL PASCOE | PNG EdgeMIKE Dennis MBE, a Rabaul-born former senior officer of the Australian Defence Force, died in South Australia this week.He was raised near Rabaul where his father, Peter, was a...
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