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The everlasting pain
ARNOLD MUNDUAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryI wrote this poem while recuperating from the affliction of gouty arthritis and it is dedicated to all victims of this...
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Bougainville civil war: The battle of Koromira Catholic Mission
LEONARD FONG ROKAPAPUA New Guinea’s motivation to re-take Bougainville in the civil war of the 1990s is and was economic. The closure of the Panguna copper and gold mine by Bougainvilleans was hurting...
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Unitech students will protest against O’Neill government
GENESIS KETANUNIVERSITY of Technology students will take a stand against the national government by staging a mass public protest in Lae this week.Unitech Student Representative Council president Eddie...
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Papua New Guineans: Aspire to the ancient warrior code....
GARY JUFFAIN ancient times, warriors guarded their people with their lives.They believed in defending and protecting what they believed in with their lives: their families, their land, their dignity...
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Parakagate: is Peter O’Neill behaving like a truthful man?
FRANCIS S NIIDOES Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s unrelenting claim that he is free of any wrongdoing in the Parakagate saga hold any water?He has resolutely defended himself against allegations since...
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Peter O'Neill should step back to fix leadership in crisis
EDITORIAL | Canberra TimesAUSTRALIA is again looking on, more or less helplessly, at a political and constitutional crisis among one of its Pacific neighbours, friends and, in this particular case,...
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LEONIE BAPTISTEAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award forPoetryThat morning she was suddenly sick He was gone without a kickShe was down and had this frown He just left and went into...
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PNG a victim of flawed nurturing – an historical commentary
MATHIAS KINAn entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & JournalismPAPUA New Guineans today watch in awe as men fly through the heavens towards the stars....
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Sir Paulias Matane recognised for lifetime contribution to PNG writing
KEITH JACKSONTHE Crocodile Prize Organising Group, COG, has announced that former Governor-General Sir Paulias Matane will receive this year’s Ok Tedi Mining Award for Lifetime Contribution to PNG...
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Successful research & reporting workshop at DWU
DAVID WAPAR | DWU Community Information CentreTHE PNG-Australia Alumni Association (PNGAAA) held a successful research analysis and report writing workshop for members of its Madang Chapter last...
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The dynamics of community development: a fight for all of us
JOHN KAUPA KAMASUAAT university we were naïve enough to believe that if we did authentic and quality research, collected the right data and established the problem with the active participation of...
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It’s a Hela’va time in PNG
MICHELLE NAYAHAMUI ROONEY | DevPolicy BlogLAST week was one of political upheaval in Papua New Guinea with confusion and news about the possibility of PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill being arrested,...
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We fight to uphold the rule of law without fear or favour
SAM KOIMI travelled to Australia at the invitation of Transparency International, whose global leaders are also in Australia at this time for the G20 Anti-Corruption meetings, to explain the domestic...
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MARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURAAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Buk bilong Pikini Award for Children’s Writing“Do not judge others. God is our only judge”WHEN Nehemiah’s parents died, uncle Billy and aunty...
View ArticleGavman I stap we?
DAVID KASEI WAPARAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryOl I tokim mi gavman I laik senis“Na wanem samting bai mi mekim?”Mi harim long redio wan Memba I laik go hait“Bilong...
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From the Kundiawa News – 50 years ago today
KEITH JACKSONThe twelfth issue of the Kundiawa News appeared on 26 June 1964 and ran to 15 pages. The cover price was one shilling and, for the first time, subscription rates were advertised - at 10/6...
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Australia warns that political instability is unhelpful for PNG
AFPAUSTRALIA has warned Papua New Guinea against political instability after the Pacific nation’s leader was accused of authorising millions of dollars in illegal payments.PNG prime minister Peter...
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University of Goroka takes up the fight against HIV/AIDS
BOMAI D WITNETHE killer Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV and Acquired Immuno-deficiency Virus (AIDS hit world stage in the early 1980s and countries developed different strategies to deal with the...
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Tapa & Tattoo Festival: A glimpse of the rich Oro culture
EURALIA PAINEAn entry in The Crocodile Prize Cleland Family Award for Heritage WritingAT nightfall, a silvery moon slithers its way across the starry sky casting its glow over the ocean like diamonds...
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Now Kranki Koim’s gone, Sweet Pete sets up Task Force Bleep
FROM OUR MAN AT THE BARTHERE was police-enforced singing and dancing in every town and village across Papua New Guinea tonight as word spread quickly that a much loved leader had set up a new...
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