Who is the most important person in your life?
KARUA PETER | The Melanesian Lookout Blog IT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT to figure out who in our life is the most important person. If somebody asks you: “Who is the most important person in your life?” what...
View ArticleGrade 8 dropout is chef & literary prize sponsor
JEFF FEBI THIS IS THE STORY of Joe Yagama, 38, whose mother and father are from Sinasina and Bundi respectively. He lives in his mother’s village and is happily married with a son who was born...
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Jan Hasselberg is launching his book Beautiful Tufi in Moresby this Wednesday. Please let Jan know at janhass@online.no if you would like to attend the Moresby presentation.
View ArticlePolitical risk is key in PNG’s sovereign bond debut
JONATHAN ROGERS | International Financing Review PAPUA NEW GUINEA bonds anyone? If all goes according to plan, the Pacific Ocean nation will soon make its debut in the international debt markets with a...
View ArticlePanguna landowners-settlers issue needs resolution
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship ON THE WEBSITE New Bougainville Bulletin, a voice of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Panguna was recently noted as...
View ArticleEven a tomorrow got its own
JEFFREY MANE FEBI Heard the ticking of dawn As with eyes without a lens I looked Wrinkles of love lazily they pass by Then Earth delivered and I was hooked Hisses of storms old hastily rush by Many a...
View ArticlePNG's Facebook wars - Dr Merrell & her detractors
SONJA BARRY RAMOI DR SUSAN MERRELL, a prolific social media commentator and blogger, was the daughter of a grocer in Wales before she moved to Sydney, Australia. After years of studying at the...
View ArticleNew marine species discovered in Madang Lagoon
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | Red Orbit WHEN PROFESSOR JIM THOMAS and his global team of researchers turned up at Madang Lagoon in Papua New Guinea they discovered a treasure trove of new species...
View ArticleWest Papua: Is this the time to heed freedom’s call?
BONNY KAIYO THE DIVISION OF NEW GUINEA between two states, indeed between two continents, can be traced back to 1828 when the Dutch proclaimed their territorial possessions ended at the 141st meridian...
View ArticleOf wars & warriors: the persistence of conflict in PNG
PHIL FITZPATRICK PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS A COUNTRY AT WAR. But it is not at war with another country. It is a war with itself. Internecine clan warfare has been going on for thousands of years and it still...
View ArticleRegistrar charged with conspiracy, misappropriation
EDUCATION NEWS PNG THE FORMER REGISTRAR of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) has been charged by Lae police on allegations of conspiracy and misappropriation of monies belong to...
View ArticlePFF calls for clarity on Peter Kasia sacking affair
PACIFIC FREEDOM FORUM THE LACK OF FACTUAL INFORMATION surrounding the recent sacking of a Papua New Guinea journalist poses another warning to newsrooms there on the need to steer clear of political...
View ArticleAttitude's most commented upon stories in February
KEITH JACKSON AND SO WE COME TO ESOTERICA CORNER. You have 10 seconds to answer. What is PNG Attitude's editorial policy? Hmmm. As you have failed, deafeningly so, you will just have to sit there while...
View ArticleAmazing Grace: Wilberforce & Papua New Guinea
EMMA WAKPI | Supported by the Rob & Meg Parer Writing Fellowship WATCHING THE MOVIE Amazing Grace about the life and work of William Wilberforce made me curious to learn more. So I turned to...
View ArticleNew website delves into the Bougainville conflict
KRISTIAN LASSLETT I HAVE SPENT the best part of a decade studying the Bougainville conflict. To that end I have interviewed over 50 senior officials from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville...
View ArticleVal donates rare artefacts to help PNG literature
KEITH JACKSON HALF A CENTURY AGO (in the years 1962-63) Val Rivers (pictured) trained as a teacher at the Australian School of Pacific Administration. She was a contemporary of mine. Upon the...
View ArticleRobert Cowan Mackie, the recruiter of the Sepik
DAVID WALL BY ALL THE RULES OF SAGES and psychologists, Bob Mackie should have been a dejected and unhappy man, living a life of futility and worthlessness. To claim that Bob experienced no deep night...
View ArticleSong the giant gave producer more than he expected
THE FILM ARCHIVE IN 2001 WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) film maker Paul Wolffram went to New Ireland where he spent two years living and working among the Lak people while filming Stori Tumbuna (2011)....
View ArticleHellman’s story: The yellow convoy arrived at dawn
LEONARD FONG ROKA ON THE AFTERNOON of 3 July 1989, a troop of Kupe men and a kid were returning home after a day of boozing in the Siae area. As they reached Kaino, dusk covered them and the child...
View ArticleTin gods, tin medals and the ineptitude of Canberra
PHIL FITZPATRICK THERE IS A CURIOUS EPISODE in the history of the kiaps which is currently playing itself out in the hallowed halls of Canberra. Indeed, it may be the final chapter. It involves the...
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