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BIANGO BUIA | The Crocodile Prize BANGI WAS ALWAYS NOISY in his class and the teacher Miss Sama Saki put him up with a girl called Dorrtie. Dorrtie was a “nice girl” said all the teachers in the...
View ArticleGenetic evidence: cannibalism common in human past
SAM KEAN | Slate Magazine | Extracts HUMANS IN DURESS EAT OTHER HUMANS, always have. A 100-pound adult, after all, could provide his starving comrades with around 40 pounds of precious muscle protein,...
View ArticleMedia concern over election count bans
PACIFIC FREEDOM FORUM | Rarotonga AS THE ELECTION RESULTS from Papua New Guinea continue to flow in, the country's national media workers association has joined the Pacific Freedom Forum in its concern...
View ArticleBelden mounts charge as vote count goes 24/7
KEITH JACKSON | Sources: RNZI / PNGEC PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S Electoral Commission is conducting round-the-clock shifts to get vote counting for the general election complete by the end of next week. And...
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IMELDA YABARA | The Crocodile Prize SHE SAT SHIVERING. Constantly checking whether her skirt was covering her breasts, pulling it with trembling hands up again and again. Silently she mouthed a prayer...
View ArticleSome crucial questions about Vanimo-Green River
TREVOR FREESTONE I SPENT TWO YEARS teaching in Pagei (now renamed Bewani) and on weekends the school children would take me on excursions into the rainforest. We even walked from Pagei to Vanimo...
View ArticleTabubil shines the sun on the Crocodile Prize
KEITH JACKSON THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT those good folks at Tabubil in the Star Mountains of the Western Province: they are great supporters of the Crocodile Prize national literary contest. When the call...
View ArticleOops, there goes the dynasty… Arthur loses seat
KEITH JACKSON ARTHUR SOMARE, FORMER MINISTER and son of Papua New Guinea's Grand Chief, this afternoon lost his seat of Angoram in the East Sepik Province. After a close tussle, Somare (National...
View ArticleNautilus & PNG agree to arbitration over Solwara 1
ELIZABETH WALTERS | Stockhouse NAUTILUS MINERALS IS CONTINUING to work with Papua New Guinea in an effort to resolve the monetary dispute over the 30% stake the PNG government holds in the proposed...
View ArticleTighter controls wanted on Australian chook imports
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA chicken industry is calling for tighter quarantine controls on the importation of uncooked Australian chickens. General manager of Zenag Chicken,...
View ArticlePoliticians should respect integrity of public office
MARTIN KOMBRI | PNG Perspectives IN DEVELOPED DEMOCRACIES like England, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere, people who hold public office and become the subject of allegations and...
View ArticleAustralia wants transparency as Indon troops to Papua
BAGUS T SARAGIH & ANDI HAJRAMURNI | The Jakarta Post AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Bob Carr raised sensitive issues relating to alleged human rights abuses and violence in Indonesia’s poorest...
View ArticleO’Neill has nose in front for PM – but traps lie ahead
KEITH JACKSON THERE ARE 111 SEATS to be filled in the next Papua New Guinea parliament and less than one-quarter (27) have been declared so far. But the shape of the power structure is beginning to...
View ArticleWriter Jeff Febi well placed in early counting in Lufa
KEITH JACKSON PRIZE WINNING WRITER Jeffrey Mane Febi is doing well in early counting in the Lufa Open electorate (Eastern Highlands). Counting began yesterday. Last year, Jeff won the Crocodile Prize...
View ArticleIndonesia asks PNG to revoke Djoko's citizenship
RANGGA PRAKOSO | Jakarta Globe INDONESIA HAS REQUESTED that corruption fugitive Djoko Tjandra’s Papua New Guinean citizenship be revoked, saying that the businessman falsified immigration documents...
View ArticlePoverty is driving child labour in urban PNG
CATHERINE WILSON | IPS | Safe World for Women IN AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT of 10,000 people on the outskirts of Port Moresby, Tembari Children’s Care – a new grassroots initiative – is providing...
View ArticleIndependence & development: economic & political independence
MARTYN NAMORONG | Part 1 of a two part series ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS behind the creation of nation states is the right of a people to self determination. Self-determination is about a people...
View ArticleImmiserating a people: the Bewani logging scandal
TREVOR FREESTONE LOGGING IN THE VANIMO GREEN RIVER region of the West Sepik province in Papua New Guinea has shown a complete disregard for the rights or welfare of the villagers. In 1990 logging...
View ArticleAs election count nears end, the money starts to flow
KEITH JACKSON THERE ARE TWO CRITICAL stages in the five-yearly Papua New Guinea national election process, and at both the politicians have to confront considerable challenges. The first stage is the...
View ArticleBougainville landowners are supportive of BCL
JEMIMA GARRETT | Radio Australia LANDOWNERS ARE MEETING on Papua New Guinea's island of Bougainville to pave the way for the return of mining giant Rio-Tinto. Rio's Panguna copper mine was the spark...
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