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Heated polemics over aid heighten China - Australia tensions
FRANK CHEN | Asia TimesHONG KONG - Australia has renewed its animosity toward China in the new year, Chinese newspapers say, citing criticism from Canberra’s minister for international development and...
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Jim Ben’s motivation: Ancestors, family & his late fiancée
Jim Ben at his home in Mahuru Village, Port MoresbyLEMACH LAVARIPORT MORESBY - Jim Ben is a youth from the Motu Koitabu village at Mahuru in Port Moresby’s south. He is an aspiring entrepreneur despite...
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When PNG led the world in the delivery of air freight
ROB PARERA photo of a German Junkers aircraft that serviced the Lae-Bulolo route in the 1930sBRISBANE – Way back in 1931, Papua New Guinea set a world record in the amount of air cargo carried – 2,607...
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Australia’s less than resplendent long and winding road project
Australian senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells caused a stir last week when she disparagingly referred to Chinese aid delivery in Papua New Guinean and the Pacific as “useless infrastructure”. But how...
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PNG health’s dark economy: The mosquito net scandal
Dr Nicholas MannExtract from a recent research into the ‘dark economy of public health’ in Papua New Guinea by STAFF REPORTERS of the investigative website PNGi, which has been examining the network of...
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Australia-China relations: Ongoing barbs put Oz reputation at risk
Michael SmithMICHAEL SMITH | Australian Financial Review | ExtractsSYDNEY - On a Qantas flight from Sydney to Shanghai last week the Chinese passengers returning home from a sun-drenched break watching...
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Governor appeals for boats & fuel as second Sepik volcano fires up
Kadovar Island in eruptionKEITH JACKSONNOOSA - The population of a second volcanic island in Papua New Guinea's Schouten Group is being evacuated as another volcano erupts.But East Sepik Governor Allan...
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The bloody early years of outside engagement with the Simbu
‘No 1 Kiap blong Australia Mr Jim Taylor i brukim bush long Highlands Papua Niugini’ (The first Australian kiap, Mr Jim Taylor, on an exploratory mission in the PNG highlands), Simon Gende, 1999PETER...
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How the RPNGC's rivalry impinged on astute kiap policing
Kiap John Stuntz with Otibanda police detachment 1950DES PIKEEX-KIAP WEBSITE - Some might see it as ironic that the form of award adopted for recognition of kiaps’ Papua New Guinea service should take...
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Memories of Togoba – natural beauty & wise leadership
Togoba – looking across the Nebilyer Valley to the limestone cliffsGARRY ROCHEDUBLIN - A recent article by Helen Davidson in Guardian Australia included a photograph of the beautiful landscape of the...
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Those ‘bloody early years’ were really not so bloody
Depiction of a New Guinea highlands tribal war by Lorenzo Mattotti (The New Yorker)CHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - What constituted the "bloody early years" in Papua New Guinea was, in an historic context,...
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Shush! If you keep talking I won’t be able to hear the TV
An American 'conversation pit'PHIL FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - In the late 1960s while attending a course at the Administrative College in Waigani, I was invited to the home of a young American woman who...
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O'Neill & Abel start 2018 with a profligate spending binge
PAUL FLANAGAN | PNG EconomicsRead Paul Flanagan’s complete article hereCANBERRA – Papua New Guinea’s 2017 supplementary budget was a good start for the O’Neill-Abel government, but it then stumbled...
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A Kiap’s Chronicle: 16 - Telefomin
Our flight from Wewak to TelefominBILL BROWN MBETHE CHRONICLE CONTINUES - Pamela and I had been married for a little over a month and were still in honeymoon mode when we returned to the Territory in...
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The truth about the highlands frontier – I want to tell it my way
MATHIAS KINKUNDIAWA - I must commend Peter Krantz for his recent article‘The bloody early years of outside engagement with the Simbu’.I believe the stories Peter related are an important part of Chimbu...
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Madang mulls initiating auxiliary policing to combat crime
Bryan Kramer MPMEDIA STATEMENT | PNG FactsMADANG - Madang was once known as the most beautiful province in Papua New Guinea, with its iconic landmarks such as the Coastwatchers memorial lighthouse and...
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An experience on Bam Island - & some historical footnotes
Dejected evacuees leave Bam in November 1954ROSS JOHNSONSYDNEY - Keith Jackson’s report on volcanic activity in the Schouten islands brought back quite a few memories of an earlier episode when Bam...
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Directive unheeded: How young kiaps brought ‘gavman’ to PNG
1960s newspaper advertisement for cadet patrol officers & other junior PNG government officialsCHRIS OVERLAND“The greatest care is taken in selecting and building up patrols which are to penetrate...
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Security continues to impair Japanese tourism in PNG
HE Satoshi NakajimaSTAFF REPORTER | PNG TodayPORT MORESBY - Japanese Ambassador Satoshi Nakajima says safety continues to be a major issue affecting the number of Japanese tourists arriving in Papua...
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Duchesses & overlords: an outdated view of China & the Pacific
Samoa’s prime minister Tuilaepa SaileleGRAEME SMITH | Inside StoryCANBERRA - Australia’s international development minister, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, found herself in a fix recently after she...
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