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PNG in the News
PNG under pressure from population growth -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f43d47
PNG Govt. aims to extend ban -- http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=801755
No legal hurdle to Manus: PNG PM -- http://giaman.com/pg/?04fa8d
New satellite data reveals sea-level rise -- http://giaman.com/pg/?e829cc
Bowen heads to Nauru and PNG to inspect processing centres -- http://giaman.com/pg/?fcc04b
PNG PM to visit Fiji this month -- http://www.fijivillage.com/?mod=story&id=0410128a245126d4348490dc3033ba
Former PNG bureaucrat charged with corruption -- http://giaman.com/pg/?7a2d8b
Drilling Commenced at PNG Antelope Appraisal -- http://giaman.com/pg/?e0ce29
Lae hold off Moresby to get netball crown -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20120928/sport03.htm
Ties with PNG too crucial to be neglected -- http://giaman.com/pg/?6492f9
PNG Misc. Links
Food for Life -- http://www.offl.org.au
PNG Immigration and Citizenship Service -- http://www.immigration.gov.pg
Beneath Kimbe Bay -- http://bomaicruz.southernfriedscience.com/?p=631
Doctors work against odds to save PNG kids -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ccdf50
Digicel Stars Kokopo -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNIOeuzC91c
Airlines PNG -- http://www.apng.com
PNG High Commission Canberra -- http://www.pngcanberra.org
Night sounds of Gerehu -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Y0_KDFhn4 -- in thirty years it sounds the same!
Past present and future Port Moresby -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4584b9
PNG Images
Goroka Show 2012 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeoR_11Z3k
KOPEX of Rabaul "Mi lonely nau" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9xEINLsEc
TAMBU of Rabaul "Maria" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHb1HK_QcA
Rabaul Volcano Eruption -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBD2K573dfk
PNG Blogs
Mangi Tari -- http://mangtariwantok.blogspot.com
PNG Gossip Blog -- http://pnggossip.blogspot.com
Tribal Wife -- http://tribalwife.blogspot.com
PNG Blogs -- http://www.pngblogs.com
PNG Exposed Blog -- http://pngexposed.wordpress.com
Malum Nalu -- http://malumnalu.blogspot.com
The Garamut -- http://garamut.wordpress.com
Nancy Sullivan -- http://www.nancysullivan.typepad.com
http://www.pacificfriendsglobalfund.org/png
PNG Mine Watch -- http://ramumine.wordpress.com
Life working in Kimbe -- http://www.expat-blog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=201882
News Items
School Subsidies
Schools in Mt Hagen that do not have a Bank South Pacific (BSP) account have complained that they are yet to receive the second quarter of the government’s education subsidy, The National reports. Thomas Kop, the chairman of the Tega Primary School in Mt Hagen has come out stating that this is affecting the daily operations of the school.
-- http://edunewspng.com/2012/10/mt-hagen-schools-not-paid-second-quarter-subsidies
PNG Debt
Treasury Minister Don Polye has said PNG's and foreign debt stands at K7 billion. Polye also said the Department of Treasury is now reviewing the country's debt management strategy to maintain it at a manageable level.
-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20120928/news01.htm
Homeless
A study by the Salvation Army has revealed there are more than 2,200 homeless men, women and children struggling to survive on the streets of Port Moresby each day. From a survey that was conducted in Boroko, Waigani, 4-Mile, Ela Beach and the central business district (over March and April), it was estimated that there are about 900 adults and 1,350 children living on the streets of Port Moresby.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/39275
Prince of Wales
Events minister Justin Tkatchenko says Prince Charles will not visit Wewak, East Sepik despite a statement from PNG's department of foreign affairs -- http://giaman.com/pg/?5bdf87
Prince of Wales to visit East Sepik, PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?b47e79
Wewak stands ready to welcome the Royal Party -- http://giaman.com/pg/?d801f3
Run for Friendship
Two hundred runners, 100 each from Indonesia and PNG, recently ran from Wutung to Skouw in the International Cross Border 10K run. Heavy rain did not affect the participants who kept in high spirits throughout the race. The event was dominated by male runners with only eight of the 200 participants being female.
The cross border race was the first of its kind held between the two neighbouring countries and was made possible thanks to cooperation between the Indonesian Papua province administration and the PNG Sandaun provincial administration.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?372e23
Key Airstrip Closed
Simbai Airstrip in the highlands of Papua New Guinea's Madang Province, is
closed and this has isolated the local communities who are dependent on air travel.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?2a326a
Air Niugini
The Air New Zealand Aviation Institute has signed an agreement to provide EASA Basic Aircraft Maintenance and on job training to Air Niugini for the next 10 years. The first intake of 12 Air Niugini trainees recently began the four year program, which will consist of an Approved EASA 147 Basic Maintenance course in the first two years, followed by two further years of on-job training with Air New Zealand Technical Operations and Air Nelson Technical Operations, both Part 145 approved organisations.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?87750a
Betel Nut
The selling of BetelNut around the country is a profitable business. Officially, it is not a recognised business entity as it operates outside of government regulation and has no known organisational structure. However, in essence, a multi-million kina business operating in isolation and ignorance of taxation laws and unshackled by the requirements of running a formal business in the country.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/39259
-- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/buai.html
World Vision
The director of World Vision, Curt von Boguslawski, has said World Vision is not leaving PNG and the organisation would continue to support the national tuberculosis programme until next March and beyond if funding was provided by the Health Department or other donors. Rumours had spread that it was winding up its involvement in the TB programme in the country.
China Loan
Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, says a $A2.8 billion loan from China will greatly improve infrastructure in the country, dismissing criticism that the loan is too big to be repaid. "(The loan) sounds large but the drawdown will not be in one single year," he said.
The loan has been defended by PNG's Works Minister Francis Awesa. He says it will be used to rebuild the country's economic life line-the deteriorating Highlands Highway, which connects the coastal port of Lae and the heavily populated Highlands region, plus other important infrastructure like wharves, jetties etc.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0033fb
Books to PNG
St Agnes Matraville, St Bernard's Botany and OLSH Randwick primary schools in New South Wales have filled a six-metre shipping container with a thousand books and pieces of furniture to send to school children in PNG.
-- http://southern-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/gifts-of-love
Sudan Peace-Keepers
The PNG government is sending a group of soldiers to Sudan and South Sudan, to work with the United Nations forces on the ground.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?2afdfe
Opposition Leader's Brother Arrested
Cain Namah, the brother of Belden Namah, has surrendered to police in Vanimo after a man reportedly died from a gunshot wound.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0a3ed4
Possible New Flights to PNG
Southeast Asian Airlines, Inc. (SEAir) has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for a permit and seat allocations for flights to Papua New Guinea, a letter by the carrier to the regulator showed. SEAir said it planned to offer flights to Port Moresby from Manila, Clark and Cebu. SEAir has asked for 1,800 seats per week each for the three routes. Other Philippines airlines that already have rights to fly to PNG are Philippine Airlines, AirPhil Express (to be renamed PAL Express), Cebu Pacific and Zest Air.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?7d5e4d
BAHA
OK Tedi Ltd has made a payment of K200,000 to BAHA for its 5th year of Sponsorship as part of its ongoing support toward HIV prevention and support response in the private sector. Mr. Musje Werror, the OK Tedi General Manager for Government and External Relations when handing the cheque over to BAHA, acknowledged the work of BAHA in ensuring education and training of workers in PNG on HIV & AIDS and related issues and commended BAHA on reaching out to the rural business sectors out in the provinces.
BAHA is a non-profit organisation representing the private sectors effort to address HIV & AIDS in the country.
PNG BAHA | Section 58, Allotment 6 & 7, Boroko, 4 Mile Hubert Murray Highway, Port Moresby | Port Moresby, NCD 111, Papua New Guinea
-- http://www.baha.com.pg
Nautilus Solwara 1 Project
The Minister for Environment and Conservation, John Pundari, has directed the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to hold public forums to debate environmental risks and issues associated with the Nautilus Solwara 1 Project.
-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20120928/news17.htm
Engan Peace
After 15 years of intense warfare, Enga society recently gave peace a fighting chance. Outdoor village courts, which had formerly settled local disputes, resolved many bloody conflicts between Enga clans by determining how much communities should compensate one another for murders and other offenses.
Village courts were established in 1974 to rule on local disputes and expanded in 1982 to handle clan conflicts.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?b23d3d
Palau Receives Money From PNG
Palau has received payment of 750,000 US dollars from PNG for additional fishing days under the Parties to the Nauru Agreement.
-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=71185
Child Mortality
In PNG more than five women die every day during childbirth. By 1982, according to Charles Darwin University, most villages were within a two-hour walk of health care so the child mortality rate dropped from 20 per cent in 1960 to 11 per cent. But in the last 30 years this rate has started to climb again.
58 out of every 1000 PNG children will die before reaching school age, compared with five in Australia. The children die from preventable illness such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia. They also die of measles - when a $1 vaccine could have protected them.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?1b74c4
PNG to Australia
Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, has called on Australia to offer easier access to Australian visas for citizens of PNG. He told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program Papua New Guineans deserve the option of visas on arrival, to match the arrangements his country offers Australians.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?35b7f8
Popondetta Yeast
Bakers od bread and other products that require yeast in Popondetta are finding it hard to find ingredients. The administrator in Oro province, Owen Awaita, says due to a surge in the production of homebrewed alcohol and the increase in associated violence the sale of yeast has been restricted to bakeries and then it will be under very, very strict control. It will be managed by the top management so that they don't let it land in the wrong hands.
-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=71149
Coming Events
Note: please verify any date mentioned as dates change and events can sometimes get cancelled. Of course I may also put down a wrong date.
Imotiva Kokoda 2012, Walk for a Cause - 9th October 2012 -- http://thelukeadamsfoundation.org.au/?p=580
Global Hand washing Day -- 15th October.
Milne Bay Music Festival -- 28th October 2012
IOTA tour -- 19th October to the 4th November 2012 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?7fb078 -- http://www.p29ni.yolasite.com
Prince Charles Visit -- first week of November
Fifth PNG Games, Kokopo, East New Britain - 17th to 30th November 2012
Rabbitohs to play PNG Kumuls -- 9th of Feb 2013
Pacific Mini Games - Wallis and Futuna 2013
2013 Pacific Netball Series (hosted by Fiji)
Full Pacific Games - PNG 4th July to 18th July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78
Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017
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