Port Moresby Business News

Earlier this month, Minister for Defence Personnel Greg Combet announced Lieutenant Tim Logan and Lance-Sergeant Jim Wheeler would be buried with full military honours on December 1. The Australian army forensic team was unable to identify two other sets of...

SIX per cent of women have suffered abuse from a male partner, according to studies. They show 30 per cent suffered repeated abuse and 42 per cent had been assaulted during pregnancy. The regional office of the United Nations Development...

AusAID-Papua New Guinea, Dr Nii Plange gave these comments during a three-day regional symposium on population and development in the Pacific held at the USP. Dr Plange said advocates avoided the use of the word "sex" and "sexuality issues" in...

En route to Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently, I noticed on my Air Niugini flight from Brisbane to Port Moresby that the instructions in the toilets were in Icelandic! Now Reykjavik is a fair trek from Port Moresby (and not...

Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for compensation. Frederick Martens, 60, was sentenced to five years' jail after being accused of a 2001 sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Papua New Guinea. But last week...

Pruaitch handed down the 2010 budget on Tuesday, with total revenue and grants expected to be just over 7.49 billion kina ($A2.97 billion), 850 million kina ($A337 million) up on last year's budget. The government said the budget was balanced,...

Allied Gold plans to raise $C155 million ($A158 million) to develop its recently acquired Gold Ridge mine in the Solomons. In September, Allied announced a scrip-only takeover bid for Australian Solomons Gold, owner of the abandoned Gold Ridge. Allied said...

AN Australian wrongly spent more than two years in jail for child rape after the Australian Federal Police and the federal prosecutor denied the existence of crucial documents that would have exonerated him. Pilot Frederic Arthur Martens, 60, is threatening...