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Niugini Eco-Tourism Services - Scammers and Fradulent Travel Agents
By Mariël LanceeI am writing this blog in English because I want the whole world to know about this deceiving travel agent based in Mt. Hagen in Papua New Guinea. After living for 2 ½ years Port...
View ArticleWake up to yourselves PNG
By Susan MerrellIn the past week, PNG Blogs has given voice to:•The first issue of Sovereign Bonds•The latest on the controversial deep water mining (Solwara)•Witch burning - both news and...
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2012 Elections was a systemic failure
NEWS.COM.AUAUSTRALIA'S last-minute surge of support for Papua New Guinea's 2012 election stopped what would otherwise have been "an even larger failure", says corruption watchdog Transparency...
View ArticleThe World's 'Third Worst' Firm Runs Manus
By WENDY BACONLast week detainees on Manus Island reported acute water shortages. Who is responsible for sanitation? Wendy Bacon investigates G4S, the notorious company contracted to operate the...
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Border markers missing: PNG Official
Monuments along the country’s international land border with Indonesia are deteriorating, Department of Western national agency coordinator Richard Aria says.He said the national government had ignored...
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PNG Leaders lack integrity
IT has become patently obvious that some of our national leaders are taking advantage of their positions as policy makers and the legislators of this land.Whenever we hear of parliamentarians involved...
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Give power plants to super-funds
THERE is talk of a plan to build a new 40 megawatt power plant in Port Moresby to complement the electricity supplied by the PNG Power Rouna hydro scheme, its diesel generated plants and those supplied...
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PNG learning not to count all its LNG chickens before they hatch
By ROWAN CALLICKThere's a common view around, even in Australia where after all these years people really should know better, that mining is merely about digging stuff up and shipping it to eager...
View ArticlePNG Supporting West Papua's Indepencence
Melanesian support for a free West Papua has always been high. Travel throughout Papua New Guinea and you will often hear people say that West Papua and Papua New Guinea is ‘wanpela graun’ – one land –...
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Good Versus Evil Battle At UNITECH: Will It Reveal Peter O’Neill’s...
By Concern Educator“UNITECH Saga 2013” as students now call it, has been labelled a fight between good versus evil. It’s also turning out to be a public test of whether Prime Minister Peter O’Neill...
View ArticleIs Unitech SRC President a SELLOUT?
By CONCERNED UNITECH STUDENTAfter I read the essay that Unitech SRC president Mr Livingston Hosea put on this blog recently I knew I must write another side to this story. Mr Hosea writes about the...
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PNG regulator shakes up telecoms
The entry of a new player and an increasingly assertive stance on consumer rights protection by Papua New Guinea’s (PNG’s) telecommunications regulator bode well for competition in the sector. However,...
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Demystifying law enforcement
By SAM KOIMMy role has brought me to confront the mysteries of law enforcement in contemporary Melanesia.I have come to appreciate that we have adopted western laws that are individualist oriented, to...
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‘Black Jesus’ among Papua New Guinea prison escapees
A manhunt was under way on Sunday after 49 prisoners, including an infamous cult leader known as “Black Jesus” who is suspected of cannibalism, broke out of a jail in Papua New Guinea.The escape...
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High cost of business in PNG
A senior United States government official says Papua New Guinea will continue to have development issues unless it brings its internet rates down like other Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec)...
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PNG to grant gas concessions to Thai firms
Photo Source: SOUTH PACIFIC POSTPapua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has agreed to grant natural gas concessions to the Thai private sector during talks with his Thai counterpart Yingluck...
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Lowering the cost of internet
Internet or international network has reduced the size of the global village considerably since its big leap in the 1990s. More than a third of the world’s human population, or about 2.4 billion...
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PNG'S Growth to Remain Strong but Protection Needed
PNG's Growth to Remain Strong but Protection Needed against Future ShocksPort Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 26 March 2013 – While Papua New Guinea’s medium term growth outlook of 5.5% in 2013, and 6% in...
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PNG GOVT TO TAKE CHARGE OF OK TEDI FUNDS
AAPThe government of Papua New Guinea will restructure the management of the Ok Tedi copper mine to ensure its funds are managed in PNG and not in Singapore, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.In a...
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An Election Candidate’s Sad Experience
Vanilla Farmer Alan Bird talks about his 2002 Election experience, this article was first published on the National Newspaper's editorial section on the 2nd of July 2002Being a strongly ideological...
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