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Inaugural Kutubu Kundu and Digaso festival a kaleidoscope of color and splendor

01/11/2011 14:56

By Steven Gimbo of WWF Daga women from PNG's Southern Highlands province playing a love song with their traditional bamboo Jews Harps. Picture by Steven Gimbo. It was a kaleidoscope of breathtaking colors and splendor at the inaugural Kutubu Kundu and Digaso festival in Papua New...

Commonwealth urges Fiji to return to democratic rule

31/10/2011 01:26

The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the Commonwealth, surrounded by heads of government of the 54 member states of the Commonwealth at the opening of the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Western Australia. The...

Is it a case of being 'out of sight out of mind' or is PNG Police in a crisis state?

29/10/2011 23:57

Is it a case of being ‘out of sight out of mind’ for a Papua New Guinea (PNG) arm of government or are these signs of a police constabulary in crisis? Last month over 5000 Papua New Guineans and sympathisers abroad signed up to a Facebook group to condemn the wanton abuse that...

Greenpeace ship returns to PNG capital amidst controversy

29/10/2011 01:17

A child from Pomio village poses during a protest in Pomio. Local Pomio landowners are protesting against the biggest land grab in PNG history. Under a lease system called SABLs (special agricultural and business leases) forests are being destroyed and customary land is being...

PNG starts talks with Australia to resurrect the Enhanced Cooperation Program

13/10/2011 14:10

Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers who were deployed to PNG in 2005 under the Enhanced Cooperation Program (ECP). Their engagement was later nullified after the PNG Supreme Court ruled their immunities were unconstitutional. Papua New Guinea has started...

Papua New Guineans: Embrace reading and you are set for life

12/10/2011 18:53

Papua New Guinean Rebecca Emori dives into a book in her spare time at the University of Sydney. Picture by Grettel Ngason. By guest blogger Ganjiki D Wayne I have commented before on reading in Papua New Guinea and I’d like to do so again because I think it is such an...

Solomon Islands Opposition warns Papua New Guinea

12/10/2011 17:48

The Solomon Islands parliament in Honiara. Its parliamentarians represent 50 constituencies. The Solomon Islands Opposition has warned Papua New Guinea that the K100 million ($AU42 million) grant it recently pledged to the Solomon Islands could be siphoned. PNG recently...

Aid and Manus Island on the agenda at the PNG-Australia Joint Ministerial Forum

11/10/2011 16:21

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill flew into Canberra this afternoon for talks with Australian aid and the Manus Island asylum seekers processing centre on the agenda. His visit follows a tumultuous two months in PNG politics, culminating with the toppling of...

Rimbunan Hijau welcomes PNG police investigations

10/10/2011 22:05

Pictures of placards distributed anonymously via email today condemning the Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group and asking it it to leave Pomio in the East New Britain province. Despite the opposition the company said most landowners supported the project. Malaysian logging giant...

Kulunga: police brutality targetting anti-logging villagers to be investigated

09/10/2011 23:29

Forestry product exports were K186.7 million in the first quarter of this year and accounted for 4.6 percent of Papua New Guinea's total export merchandise according to the Bank of Papua New Guinea Investigations have begun in Papua New Guinea into reports police...

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