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Important lessons from Deng Xiaoping’s reform of China
BERNARD SINGU YEGIORABUSA Jeremiah Wenogo’s insightful comment about economic reforms in China is reflective of the measures which China has taken to publicise its economic transformation. Busa Wenogo...
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How Leo Kuman, vandal & carjacker, became an agent of change
JIMMY AWAGLAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyWARE Mukale (pictured), until last year Deputy Principal (Administration) of Gumine Secondary School, frequently drove between...
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PNG voices raised in anger in new Crocodile Prize Anthology
DRUSILLA MODJESKA | The AustralianTHE better part of a decade ago, Papua New Guinean writer Regis Tove Stella said what his country needed was writers, far more of them than there were, to claim, or...
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Peter O’Neill referred to leadership tribunal over controversial loan
LIAM COCHRANE | ABC PNG CorrespondentPAPUA New Guinea's prime minister Peter O'Neill looks set to go before a leadership tribunal over a controversial loan to buy shares in an oil company.Earlier this...
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As PNG govt buys in, Sime Darby’s bid for NBPOL is well on track
THE STAR ONLINE | Kuala LumpurCONGLOMERATE Sime Darby Bhd came into the spotlight again this week after it said the Papua New Guinea government had expressed an intention to increase its stake in New...
View ArticleA peaceful approach
MICHAEL GEKETAAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyWhen he is talking Be harmonious by being a good listener He will obey you Even in little thingsWhen he is in penury Be...
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Rivers Prize closes tomorrow with record number of entries
KEITH JACKSONTHIS year’s Rivers Prize for writing about peace and harmony ends tomorrow having received a record number of entries.With still more than 24 hours to go before the contest closes at...
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Teddy bear in the field
PAUL WAUGLA WIIAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyI was up late one recent night thinking about all these terrible events happening around the globe. My three-year-old son...
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17 titles & counting: Pukpuk, PNG’s pre-eminent book publisher
KEITH JACKSONPUKPUK Publishing received an honourable mention in yesterday’s review of the Crocodile Prize Anthology 2015 by Drusilla Modjeska in The Australian newspaper.And it would be a fair...
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Australian academic says aid has made PNG’s situation worse
KEITH JACKSONPROFESSOR Allan Patience of the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute has said that there has been a worrying blurring of the separation of powers in Papua New Guinea and that...
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Creating peace & harmony after violence in a marriage
AGNES MAINEKEAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyA means of traditional reconciliation from the Telei language group in the Autonomous Region of BougainvilleMARRIAGE is a...
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What it will will take to bring Bougainville to nationhood
LEONARD FONG ROKAIN the shimmering streets of Buka town last month, a pair of New Guineans and some young Bougainvillean ‘born-agains’ were preaching from the Bible.Suddenly a young south...
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Tribal wars continue but mindsets are beginning to change
PAUL WAUGLA WIIAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyTHE highlands region of Papua New Guinea is known for its tribal warfare. Like all armed conflicts, these fights can have a...
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Mobile traders: Are they entrepreneurs or opportunists?
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOAS an economist, I am fascinated by Papua New Guineans’ home-grown salesmanship. It seems to be the hallmark of our informal economy. Driven by the lack of meaningful opportunities,...
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Tsuhanaof hope: the continuing relevance of traditional values
RAYMOND KOMIS GIRANAAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyHAKU and Halia are two distinct constituencies which share the same border in the north-eastern coast of Buka in...
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It’s when I come
PHILIP KAUPAHer days are numbered and it’s surely due her event is rare as it happens to few she gasps and grins, she can hardly talk her feet are numb, she had to walk.In love she soaksin agony she’s...
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The philosophical choice: a nation of thinkers or shrinkers?
WARDLEY DESMOND BARRY-IGIVISAAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonySOMETIME around 2012, the PNG Post Courier newspaper published on its website an article under the headline...
View ArticleThat beautiful hamlet by the Singanigle River
PAUL WAUGLA WIIThe lone villager came home one afternoon. It was so comforting to be on that familiar road That led to that hamlet Across the tumbling, crashing Singanigle River.Walking along the path...
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Mobile traders: Are they entrepreneurs or opportunists?
BUSA JEREMIAH WENOGOAS an economist, I am fascinated by Papua New Guineans’ home-grown salesmanship. It seems to be the hallmark of our informal economy. Driven by the lack of meaningful opportunities,...
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Reflections of the can collector
FIDELIS SUKINAAn entry in the Rivers Prize forWriting on Peace & HarmonyI collect the empty cans for cash, Hope it’s enough for a scone or two.The sun makes me sweat so bad, Wish my thirst would...
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