Improving women’s participation in PNG politics
ANTHONY SWAN & GRANT WALTON | Development Policy Blog 6 AUGUST 2012 FELT LIKE A WATERSHED moment for PNG politics; Julie Soso Akeke was declared the third woman elected to parliament in that year’s...
View ArticleMelanesia group defers decision on West Papua
NIC MACLELLAN | Islands Business | Extracts AS A GUEST OF HONOUR at last week’s summit of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare praised the group as a “vibrant and successful”...
View ArticleSuccessful corruption fight is key to a strong society
MICHAEL DOM IF THE O’NEILL GOVERNMENT in Papua New Guinea has the numbers and really intends to see the fruits of Vision 2050 ("a smart, wise, fair and happy society by 2050"), then it must seriously...
View ArticleBougainville’s new library – haus stori to fill multiple roles
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL A LIBRARY THAT HAS JUST OPENED in the Autonomous Province of Bougainville today will strengthen the people's heritage. The library was built by the New Zealand based...
View ArticleSad journey of a Papua New Guinean rape victim
LEONARD FONG ROKA IN 2006 LEANI, AS I SHALL CALL HER, was a happy-enough 16-year old orphan doing Grade 6 at the Manetai Primary School in Kieta, Central Bougainville. Leani’s elder sister, married to...
View ArticleState of Origin: The game that sends PNG bananas
FRANCIS SINA NII IF THERE WAS ANYTHING AUSTRALIAN that makes Papua New Guinea go mad then it is the State of Origin rugby league game. While State of Origin is entertainment, fame and money for...
View ArticleConfusion reigns over Fiji job recruitment for PNG
MIKA LOGA | Fiji Broadcasting Corporation A FIJI TRAVEL AGENCY says its planned recruitment for Fijians to work in Papua New Guinea is on track despite a statement from the PNG High Commission in Suva...
View ArticleUS says PNG officials engage in human trafficking
LIAM COCHRANE | Australia Network News | ABC A REPORT RELEASED BY THE US State Department says Papua New Guinean government officials are facilitating human trafficking through bribery and trading...
View ArticleJane Belfield dies at 80 – long-time PNG journalist
KEITH JACKSON WITH THE DEATH OF JANE BELFIELD of a heart attack yesterday, Papua New Guinea has lost another Australian who contributed greatly to the development of the nation’s independence. Jane and...
View ArticleNo place in the military for the Sergeant Perupes
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN THE OBESE PNG SERGEANT looked over his shoulder to make sure his Australian counterpart was a few metres away out of earshot. ‘’You are only 163 cm tall. The minimum requirement...
View ArticleThe PNG kiap postage stamp that didn’t quite happen
HARRY TOPHAM FAME WAS NEARLY OURS. Pre-independence Papua New Guinea kiaps came perilously close to making it into stamp albums all over the world. Around 1960 there were plans to introduce a five...
View ArticleGovt must put public service ahead of big projects
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA GOVERNMENT has been told it should build capacity in the public service and provide proper oversight mechanisms before undertaking more major...
View ArticleEven in farming, the seeds of corruption linger
TONY FLYNN ANY GAINS AGAINST CORRUPTION in Papua New Guinea usually extend just for the short-life of a particular campaign. Our leaders as are as other world leaders - not noted for their perseverance...
View ArticleCommercial property surges in Moresby real estate
OXFORD BUSINESS GROUP | Extracts AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of rapid growth in Port Moresby’s residential real estate sector, the market is in consolidating. Government data show that the finance, real estate...
View ArticleA proper understanding of what causes sickness
BARBARA SHORT AFTER RECENTLY HEARING FROM FRANCIS NII that he is trying to help the cancer patients in the Kundiawa hospital where he stays, I sent him a copy of a Christian book called What Cancer...
View ArticleBougainville Manifesto 5 – Land, incest & greed
LEONARD FONG ROKA IN THOSE EARLY DAYS of the development of mining in Bougainville, Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) and the colonial administration were not creative or proactive in dealing with...
View ArticleDeath of Dennis O’Rourke, maker of passionate films
KARL QUINN | Brisbane Times DENNIS O'ROURKE, THE DOCUMENTARIY PRODUCER who made five of his best-known films in Papua New Guinea, has died. His other celebrated films, The Good Woman of Bangkok and...
View ArticleKoromira rises like the sun
ISHMAEL PALIPAL As the wave crashes upon the seashore the pirites sing morning greetings patrolling the shore standing on Oema Bridge, watching the rising sun across the horizon of the sea she raises,...
View ArticlePlanting the seeds of good health in rural PNG
DR POYAP J ROONEY “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” - Robert Louis Stevenson OUR GROUP TRAVELLED BY PMV from Port Moresby to the Gulf Province to plant...
View ArticlePort Moresby air connection established to Jakarta
LUC CITRINOT | Travel Daily News INDONESIA’S NATIONAL FLAG CARRIER, Garuda Indonesia, is looking to link Jakarta to Port Moresby with regular commercial services from August. The Indonesian airline is...
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