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China & India’s growing business links with PNG & the Pacific
BUSINESS ADVANTAGE PNGPACIFIC leaders have been the recipients of largesse from India’s prime minister and China’s president, who visited Fiji last week. Meanwhile, a new ANZ Bank report details the...
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Is going all the way with China such a good idea after all?
PHIL FITZPATRICKQUITE often in the pages of PNG Attitude there are articles extolling Papua New Guinea’s burgeoning links to China.The articles are often written by people who have benefitted from...
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Peter O'Neill faces leadership tribunal over Oil Search shares loan
LIAM COCHRANE | Australian Broadcasting CorporationPAPUA New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, has been referred to a leadership tribunal over allegations of misconduct in office relating to a...
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Improving children’s justice in Papua New Guinea
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION PAPUA New Guinea police and legal professionals will be better prepared to investigate and prosecute crimes against children following a workshop in Port Moresby this...
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Archbishop hits health funding delays: 'Unacceptable to church'
CATHOLIC CHURCH HEALTH SERVICESHEALTH services in Papua New Guinea are suffering because the Government is not releasing funds promptly.Chairman of Catholic Church Health Services, Archbishop Stephen...
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LLINs: The mosquito nets that both protect & destroy
MANUEL HETZELIN 1899, the famous German microbiologist Robert Koch led a malaria expedition to what was then Kaiser-Wilhelm’s-Land, what we now know as New Guinea. Koch wanted to investigate the...
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Forests Minister needs to back up words with action on logging
EDDIE PAINE | Campaign Coordinator, Act Now PNG!FORESTS Minister Douglas Tomuriesa needs to ensure all logging in SABL (special agriculture and business lease) areas is stopped immediately.The Minister...
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The climate change homeless
MARGARET BROWNJOHNAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryYu bilong we? Yu bilong we?… Mi bilong ples… Ples bilong yu we?Ples bilong yu we?…. Nau em nogat… From where do you...
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The little known concert parties of wartime PNG
PETER KRANZTHE armed forces of Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom have a great tradition of entertaining the troops in wartime through concert parties which bring popular entertainers...
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Holy Spirit missionary sisters to celebrate 115 years in PNG
SR MARY ANTHIDA KUECKMANN SSpSON Monday 8 December, Foundation Day, the six missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (SSpS) on the staff of Divine Word University (DWU) in Madang will celebrate the 125th...
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Speaker Zurenuoc still defending heritage vandalism
KEITH JACKSONONE year after he ordered the destruction of a precious part of Papua New Guinea’s heritage, PNG parliamentary Speaker Theo Zurenouc has embarked on a public relations campaign designed to...
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The reasons why I moved to parliament’s middle benches
SIR MICHAEL SOMARE MP | Speech to PNG ParliamentMR Speaker, I seek leave of Parliament to clarify the issue around some of the statements going through the newspapers and social media over the past few...
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Numbers game: If Peter O'Neill goes, who will be prime minister?
PNG MATHS BLOGSPOTLAST week’s referral of Peter O’Neill to a Leadership Tribunal and his pending arrest warrant on alleged criminal charges have led to gossip about which internal forces might emerge...
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Prominent Simbu MP contributes K20,000 to writers association
FRANCIS S NIIKERENGA Kua, former Attorney-General and a man considered one of a Papua New Guinea's leading politicians, was holding his breath and looking extremely impressed. Soon after, while the...
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See here these loose threads
MICHAEL THEOPHILUS DOMAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetrySee here these loose threads, See how I hold them in my hands And how I roll them on my thigh? Tired and wrinkled...
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Red tape culture – the smothering of progress by bureaucracy
PHIL FITZPATRICKIN the debate about nationalism and regional parochialism - whether one should be a Papua New Guinean first or a Simbu, Wabag or Kerema first - it is easy to forget that there are...
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Thugs ransack Nadzab as Russia urged to consider PNG tourism
KEITH JACKSONON the same day that Papua New Guinea and Russia announced that a revival in their bilateral relationship was most likely to be expressed through tourism and culture, 30 armed thugs took...
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A radio & a bunch of keys: How Siwi married Ambi Kulko
JIMMY AWAGLAn entry in the Crocodile Prize PNG Government Award for Short StoriesIT was in 1977 that highlander Siwi was recruited to work at Kulili Plantation on Karkar Island in Madang Province. Siwi...
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Beware, HIV lingers
PHILIP G KAUPAAn entry in the Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for PoetryMy fellow citizens, beware, as our little enemy, the HIV virus, is still around. We cannot defeat it if we are ignorant. It...
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Bougainvillean businesses feel the sting of an Asian takeover
LEONARD FONG ROKALUKE Maneu of Siwai in south Bougainville successfully operated a retail outlet in Buka Town from 2009 until 2011, when the Asian influx and affected his operations leading him to...
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