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PNG well placed to absorb GFC
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 2 days ago
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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 many Vikings have walked the...
Tags: PNG, Icelandic Air, Australian Trade Commission, Australiaâ, Australia Week, ACTU, Icelanders, Icelandâ, Bill Costello, Air Niugini, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Oro Province, ￃﾂ, Kokoda Track, Airlines of Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
It has ruined my life: freed pilot to sue
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 5 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Mr Martens, Chris Rose, AFP, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Australian Federal Police, Indonesia, West Papua, Western New Guinea, Law Crime
Gas bonanza offers chance to tackle poverty in PNG
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 7 days ago
Credibility Within a matter of weeks, the Papua New Guinea Government expects to close a deal with Exxon Mobil to export liquefied natural gas, in what promises to be the single largest investment in the nation's history...However, this growth will only deliver for...
Tags: LNG, lng project, PNG, Papua New Guinea Government, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
PNG's LNG creates 8.5% growth
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 8 days ago
Credibility 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, compared...
Tags: PNG, economic growth, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Fuels, Liquefied natural gas, Papua New Guinean kina, Business Finance
Global lobby for West Papua takes off
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 13 days ago
Credibility The PNG MPs reignited the controversial issue on Friday one week before the Indonesian government starts repatriating up to 700 West Papuans who live in PNG's capital Port Moresby or towns along the shared border. Port Moresby's Governor Powes Parkop...
Tags: Indonesian, PNG, West Papua, Port Moresby, west papuans, Jamie Maxton-Graham, Papuan, Australian Greens, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Jakarta, Papua, New Guinea, War Conflict, Western New Guinea, Disputed territories, Politics
PNG warders prevent mass break-out
Mount Hagen :: Papua New Guinea | about 1 month ago
Credibility A total of 487 prisoners, more than half the 800 or so inmates at the Baisu jail outside Mount Hagen in PNG's Western Highlands province, attempted to break out on Tuesday afternoon after not being fed for two days. The would-be escapees got past three...
Tags: PNG
Somare redefines dictatorship in pro-Fiji pitch
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has made a strong pitch for Fiji’s bid at self-determination, saying the meaning of military dictatorship in the Pacific is different from the definition of military dictatorship in the western world.
Tags: Fiji, PNG, foreign minister
Sydney Morning Herald: Meninga backs Kumuls' NRL bid
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 2 months ago
Credibility Papua New Guinea Rugby League to enter a team in next year's Queensland Cup as a stepping stone to a NRL licence...The Maroons coach said an NRL franchise would be a ''sensational'' outcome for the only country to call rugby league its national sport....
Tags: National Rugby League, NRL, PNG, Australia
Cholera emergency declared in PNG
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 2 months ago
Credibility Since July 18 people have died from cholera and 240 others have contracted the disease in Morobe Province on the country's north coast. At the same time, in the same province, authorities are also battling an outbreak of dysentery that has killed 29 and...
Tags: PNG
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: First cholera cases in 50 years
Lae :: Papua New Guinea | 2 months ago
Credibility Twelve people have died from the first outbreak of cholera in 50 years in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and the disease must be urgently contained before it spreads further, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It’s a major concern, mainly because the...
Tags: PNG, Morobe Posted, medical official, Papua New Guinea
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