Links
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PNG Blogs
Lakarol -- http://differentpath.blogspot.com/2007/12/lakarol.html
Mangimosbi's Weblog -- We Need More Mako's -- http://mangimosbi.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/we-need-more-makos/
Scar on the innocent -- Price of tribal fighting - Children bare the brunt -- http://www.newnation.vg/forums/showthread.php?t=117137
PNG Mount Hagen Sing Sing -- http://tinyurl.com/345mcl
Deckhand Framed -- http://rabauldailyphoto-jules.blogspot.com/2008/01/deckhand-framed.html
Breadfruit Bliss -- http://rabauldailyphoto-jules.blogspot.com/2007/12/breadfruit-bliss.html
http://ronaldlora.blogspot.com/2008/01/bishop-francesco-panfilo-s.html
Transparency International PNG responds to concerns -- http://tinyurl.com/2nle52
Ours was the year that was: 1965-66 -- http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2007/12/ours-was-the--1.html
New Ireland province MPs pledge to work together -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122807/Nation%205.htm
Celebrating Christmas -- http://witwatw.blogspot.com/2007/12/celebrating-christmas.html
Yahoo Groups
If you want to find a Yahoo group that deals with Papua New Guinea then I recommend that you visit this link -- http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=papua+new+guinea&submit=Search -- with any luck you will find a whole list of groups that may interest you.
The Yahoo regional directory on PNG is located at -- http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Papua_New_Guinea/
Miscellaneous Sites
Surfing information for PNG can be found at the Surfing Association of PNG website located at -- http://www.surfingpapuanewguinea.org.pg/home.htm -- and -- http://www.surfing-waves.com/travel/papua_ng.htm -- The Tourism Promotion Authority December 2003 Newsletter also had an article on surfing PNG at -- http://www.pngtourism.org.pg/news/newsletters/newsletterdec.htm
The official Port Moresby High School site is located at -- http://www.pmis.iea.ac.pg
The Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce website can be found at -- http://www.pomcci.org.pg
The Web Site for the PNG Institute of Directors gives an excellent introduction to PNG company law and related governance issues it can be found at -- http://www.pngid.org.pg
Papua New Guinea Institute of Accountants -- http://www.pngia.org.pg
Rotary Club of Boroko and Papua New Guinea -- http://www.rotary.org.pg
The Lonely Planet Guide to PNG is located at -- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/papua-new-guinea
Jane's PNG
Jane's Papua New Guinea web site -- A pictorial insight with comments on Papua New Guinea traditional culture, art and history. Contains a series of excellent photographs and can be located at -- http://www.janeresture.com/png_home/
PNG in the News
Pepakane village Buwang local level government area in Bulolo, Morobe province gets water supply -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122707/Nation%208.htm
Delegation to study Cairns waterfront -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/123107/Nation%2016.htm
Caught trading alcohol for rice -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122807/Nation%2010.htm
Police probe shooting incident in Wau -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122807/Nation%2014.htm
Aid post gets financial boost -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122807/Nation%2011.htm
Madang ULLG urged to improve image -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/123107/Nation%206.htm
Improved pension for judges urged -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/123107/Nation%205.htm
Outdated policies to be reviewed -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122807/Nation%2012.htm
Wewak court protest continues -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/010408/Nation%2018.htm
Missing boat found after 28 days in Milne Bay Province -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/010408/Nation%208.htm
Milne Bay women killed outside church -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/010308/Nation%207.htm
PNG Police may evict West Papuan asylum seekers -- http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2131410.htm -- see also -- http://www.missionandjustice.org/refugees-neglected-pngwest-papuaindonesia/
-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=37309
-- http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2132030.htm
News Items
PNG News Feed
News Feed - for some of the latest headlines from around the world visit the PNG Gossip newsletter RSS News Feed located at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/news/pngrss.php -- At the moment this uses Yahoo and Google but it seems they pick up on the same news stories so there is not much difference between the two feeds and some of the links remain on the feed for days at a time.
Mission Aviation Fellowship
The Sandaun province is buying a Twin Otter aircraft for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). The money to buy the plane will come from the province's four parliamentarians, whose electorates will get K10 million (US$3.4 million) each next year, as part of development grants allocated under the Somare government's district services improvement program (DSIP). MAF operate another plane on behalf of PNG Sustainable Development Program Company (PNGSDP) - a Singapore-based company that holds BHP Billiton's 52 percent stake in the giant OK Tedi copper and gold mine - bought an aircraft to serve the rural population in the Western province and gave it to the airline to operate.
MAF continues to fly to some of the country's most isolated communities on the PNG mainland in the face of continuously-occurring challenges such as increasing fuel prices and spare parts cost.
see -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=37238
Post Office Robbery
Police have arrested a mother and her public servant husband along with their two sons in connection with the recent armed robbery of the Finschhafen Post Office where a large sum of money was stolen. According to police and public servants in Finschhafen, five other young men were also arrested including two students from the Bugandi Secondary School in Lae, who had gone to Finschhafen for their Christmas holidays. The couple was arrested from their home at Gagidu and the young men were picked up at Uruo village, several kilometres outside the district headquarters.
New Babies
The Angau Memorial Hospital's labour ward welcomed 11 New Year babies with the first to arrive at 12:30am.
Goroka General Hospital delivered 11 babies on Christmas Day -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122707/Nation%2012.htm
Baby galore in NGI region -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122707/Nation%2024.htm
Oro Province
Law and order issues under control in Oro -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/122707/Nation%206.htm
See also -- http://tinyurl.com/2loe42 -- and -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/010408/Nation%204.htm
Digicel
The Chief Executive Officer of Digicel is wanted by the PNG Labour Department for conducting business and working without a proper work permit. See -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20080103/news01.htm
Kevin O'Sullivan, CEO of Digicel, has brushed aside the Government's claim he did not have a valid work permit. See -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20080104/news03.htm
Cult Group
PNG police say they have broken an armed cult group in Morobe province -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=37247
Simbu Province
Simbu Governor Fr John Garia visited the remote people of Kilau in the remote Karamui Nomane electorate in Simbu where he told the people that he had purchased a new ambulance for their health centre. The area has been without an ambulance for the last 15 years.
Lae Quake
Two earth quakes have rocked Lae. Police and the Provincial Disaster centre reported no major damage caused by the earthquakes. The first quake had a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale while the smaller after shock recorded 5.5.
see also -- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/cap/us2008ltal
ATM Service
Cardholders from the ANZ and Bank of South Pacific (BSP) can now perform cash withdrawals and balance enquiries from their primary savings or cheque account connected to their card from automatic teller machines (ATM) owned by both banks. According to Bank South Pacific employees, a K2.50 convenience fee will be charged for each cash withdrawal from the other bank's ATM. Customers are warned that the ANZ ATM's do not require the entry of toea. For example, if requesting K40.00, enter "40", not "4000" as you would when using a Bank South Pacific ATM.
Tauck Christmas Presents
Christmas came to residents of several villages in PNG recently, courtesy of Tauck World Discovery, its employees, and its clients. -- http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/12/prweb594661.htm
Kokoda Track
Medical evacuation service SOS International warns that too many people are not physically prepared to tackle the 96-kilometre trek. They say that not only should you be extremely fit, but you need to be mentally and financially prepared in case there is a medical emergency while walking the World War II track.
Dr Hamish Black from SOS International says rescues are challenging. "You often have very short periods of time where it's clear enough to get a helicopter in," he said. "So it may be that you're going out there for 24 or 36 hours, waiting for an evacuation." Helicopters, planes and medical staff don't come cheap. Evacuating a patient to Australia can cost up to $30,000.
Oxford Dictionary
The Oxford University Press Dictionary is scheduled for release in March this year. A form from Wantok Niuspepa, who is working with OUP to release the book, can be found at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/misc/oxford.pdf
Julian Moti
After more than a year as the Solomon's top legal officer, after entering the country illegally, Julian Moti, has arrived in Australia on Thursday to face child-sex charges. Moti, an Australian citizen was spirited into the Solomon's on a PNG military plane that reportedly had no official clearance from the PNG Civil Aviation Authority after being arrested on arrival at Jackson's airport, Port Moresby.
Moti has been fighting deportation to Australia to face charges that he raped a 13-year-old girl in Vanuatu in 1997. After a change of government in Honiara in December, Moti was sacked from his post - a move that prepared the way for his deportation.
Logging Protest
Environmentalists in Australia and New Zealand staged protests outside branches of the ANZ Bank on Wednesday calling for it to stop funding logging operations in the island state of Tasmania and on Papua New Guinea. A protester said that the Malaysian company Rimbunan Hijau, an ANZ client, was carrying out logging in PNG that had been condemned internationally.
Sorcery In PNG
Sorcery is a big concern in society that the government and development partners must address with urgency. Many of our leaders have failed to grasp this, which is evident in their ignorance of sorcery-related issues.
see full story located at -- http://wicca.supernaturalparanormal.com/?p=32 -- for some reason this web page was difficult to load and took several retries before eventually loading. -- The author can be contacted via email at: yeepai@yahoo.com
Logohu Awards
Three prominent Papua New Guineans have been made "chief" in the 2008 New Year's honours list. Catholic bishop Cherubim Dambui, former prime minister Sir Rabbie Namaliu and former governor-general Sir Silas Atopare have all been made Grand Companions of the Order of Logohu. A total of 110 people were recognised this year, the third year since the inception of the Orders of Papua New Guinea.
Teacher Fares
Teachers still stuck in Western Highlands Province. Of the K1.8 million in teachers leave fares budget sent to Mt Hagen from the Education Office in Port Moresby, only K800,000 was given out. -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/010408/Nation%203.htm
Sialum - Morobe Province
Sialum deserted - '08, killings and lootings' -- http://www.newnation.vg/forums/showthread.php?t=117136
See also -- http://globalpoliticsonline.com/wp/?p=18994
Coming Events
Coffee Festival, Goroka, Eastern Highlands -- May
40th anniversary of the PNG Institute of Medical Research - between the 18th and 22nd of June 2008 in Goroka
Tolai Warwagira Cultural Festival - July 9 - 15 2008 - Rabaul, East New Britain
14th National Mask Festival - July 16 - 19 2008 - Rabaul, East New Britain
Hiri Moale Festival - September
PNG Independence Day Celebrations -- 16th September
Medical Symposium - September 2008
Morobe Show, Lae - October 2008
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