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Is China using 'debtbook diplomacy' to achieve its strategic aims?
BEN WESTCOTT | CNN | EditedHONG KONG - The Chinese government is leveraging billions of dollars in debts to gain political leverage with developing countries across Asia and the Pacific, a new report...
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Losing Kokoda: $50 million & dishonouring our military heritage
Crossing a stream on the Kokoda Trail - too little to show for $50 million of Australian taxpayers' moneyCHARLIE LYNN | Spectator AustraliaSYDNEY - The ‘blackbirding curse’ is as damaging to Papua New...
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‘Mr Tomato’ defamation case back in national court today
Martyn Namorong - gagged for last year's national electionKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – The ‘I am not a tomato’ defamation case brought by Papua New Guinea electoral commissioner Patilias Gamato against writer...
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Days
JEFFREY FEBIDays are born at first light. Dead at last light. Less they care about memories. Gather, don't they in anniversaries?Often many a day is grey and boring. Certainly, a dark day would be...
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Sonnet 25: Ejaculation is as sure as spit
MICHAEL DOMThere is less lyric in pyric passions Explosive, explicit, exotic dance Some syllabic maze to navel-gaze on, Swallowing a shallow, callow cadence.When the deeper you feel, the more you drool...
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Factoring the Pacific into Australia’s approach to China
Map showing scale of Chinese aid in the Pacific (Lowy Institute)BAL KAMA | DevPolicy BlogCANBERRA - The ‘China-in-the-Pacific’ dilemma has once again hit the headlines in Australia, this time with a...
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Rice is not food security for PNG; let’s focus on our own staples
TANYA ZERIGA ALONE | EmNau’sPNG BlogPORT MORESBY - A family meal in Papua New Guinea is incomplete without rice. Indeed, rice has fast become a staple for town residents in the four decades since...
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The writer: staying home, making it there or on the literary trail
RASHMII BELLBRISBANE - Managing connections, exploring ideas and interpretations, refining skills or simply absorbing literary knowledge are amongst the array of reasons why writers and readers...
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‘Cheated’ landowners threaten to close fish processing plants
Majestic Seafoods cannery line in LaeSCOTT WAIDE | Asia Pacific ReportLAE - Landowning clans in here are threatening to close down five fish processing plants if the government does not review the...
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Tragedy awaits as PNG runs out of HIV & other medicines
Dr Glen Mola - 'becoming more difficult for doctors & nurses to stay positive'GLEN MOLAPORT MORESBY – It’s not always good news. Today we heard at our staff meeting at Port Moresby General Hospital...
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It wasn't low oil prices that dried up PNG LNG benefits
It wasn't just the LNG tankers that sailed away - the benefits to the people of PNG did tooPAUL FLANAGAN | PNG EconomicsConnect here for the complete article including links and referencesCANBERRA -...
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Govt must explain why free education is failing - & fix it
Mai High School - "the government is playing games and sabotaging our rightful basic school services"JIMMY AWAGLCHUAVE - The government component of TFFE (tuition fee free education) to schools in...
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Moses Tau: Out of the cage to live a life of joy & giving
KEITH JACKSONNOOSA – The sudden death last week of one of Papua New Guinea’s best known entertainers has both saddened the nation and raised the hot issue of how PNG treats its gay community.Moses Tau...
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Short term gloom, long term boom: mixed message on economy
Kishti Sen - PNG has significant short term economic problems but beyond that a resources comeback makes future looks goodKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – Kishti Sen, an economist with the ANZ Banking Group, has...
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It's difficult to be enthusiastic about APEC's immense cost
Watna Mori - government still owes much money from past spending on public spectaclesWATNA MORI | The Interpreter | Lowy InstitutePORT MORESBY - It is not clear when the big-man politics in Papua New...
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Hard going for the Tkatchenkos in developing their Brisbane estate
Architect's drawing of the ornate main building with its feature cupula planned for the Tkatchenko estateKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – Papua New Guinea's sports and APEC minister Justin Tkatchenko and his wife...
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What about our children? Corporate harm on the Pacific frontline
AMY SINCLAIR | NewMatildaBRISBANE - The natural wealth of Pacific nations is disappearing overseas.Unseen and unheard, the voices of Pacific island communities on the frontline of deforestation,...
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Secret US report warns about China's 'debt book diplomacy'
STAFF CORRESPONDENT | Asian News International (ANI)WASHINGTON DC - In a secret report it commissioned recently, the US State Department has warned that China is offering a hundred billion dollars...
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Albert Schram allowed to temporarily leave PNG to get PhD
Dr Schram's detention in PNG on academic fraud charges has caused international concernKEITH JACKSONPORT MORESBY - The national court in Waigani has allowed former University of Technology...
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We gave away too much to PNG LNG, but not next time
DAN MURTAUGH & AARON CLARK | Bloomberg | ExtractYou can read the complete article hereLONDON - The tiny, impoverished nation of Papua New Guinea came out on the short end of a $19 billion...
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