Recommended Site
A site worth visiting, especially if you are into diving is http://www.walindi.com
PNG Cabinet Ministers
Another spanner in the works for the PNG Cabinet. Pila Niningi, who had just been given the Public Service Ministry, has been ousted by a majority decision of a three-judge Supreme Court bench chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Sir Mari Kapi.
Interest Rates
PNGBC Term deposits
for K500 to K50,000
- 1 month 8.50%
- 2 months 9.34%
- 3 months 10.25%
- 6 months 10.50%
- 9 months 10.50%
- v12 months 11.00%
- The standard lending rate 24.25%
Telikom
It is understood that vandals have sabotaged Telikom cables cutting PNG off from the rest of the world. Even WWW access was limited to PNG Wide Web for a while. Strange that there is an industrial dispute going on at the same time!
Radar project
The project, which is fast becoming a controversy, is a manufacturer-induced project with no proper government planning claims Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Kala Swokin.
Romanian Family
The family, who have illegally lived in PNG since 1995, were deported last Wednesday but were sent back from Singapore on Sunday. On arrival they were arrested for being in the country illegally.
Aitape Disaster
After umpteen weeks the national Executive Council is currently working on establishing a committee to be based in Aitape which will have the overall responsibility for formulating, implementing and monitoring the rehabilitation and reconstruction program.
Other PNG related lists
"George(s) Lessard" <media@citenet.net> has been kind enough to forward the following information for other lists which might be relevant to people interested in Papua New Guinea.
George has recommended the following lists - pacmedia and nius which are run by the list server at Pacific Media.
A summary of list processor commands for Pacific Media follows:
The correct email format is similar to this...
The command must be in the FIRST line of the message that you send to the list server - otherwise it will be ignored. All other lines in your mail message will be ignored.
For example, to join the mail list containing PNG news, you would send an email message to listserver@pactok.net.au with the following body:
JOIN NIUS youremaill@address
To join the other list send another email message to listserver@pactok.net.au with the body of the message containing
JOIN PACMEDIA youremail@address
Send email to listserver@pactok.net.au with the following in the body of the message.
HELP pacmedia pngnews@png-gossip.comt
The command above should give you a detailed help list for the relevant list.
It is not necessary to have a valid Subject for this message to work. Other examples are shown below.
Examples of pacmedia listserver commands.
JOIN pacmedia [<email-address>]
Join or subscribe to the list. A copy of each message sent to the list will be forwarded to the email address given.
DIGEST pacmedia [<email-address>]
Join or subscribe to the list. A single message will be sent each day containing an indexed summary of all the messages that have been sent to the list in the previous 24 hours.
LEAVE pacmedia [<email-address>]
Leave or unsubscribe from the list. If your address has changed since you joined the list, send your original email address.
LIST pacmedia [<order>]
Returns a list of all the email addresses currently on the list. These may be ordered by when they joined (default), alphabetically (ALPHA) or by domain (DOMAIN).
PNG media related sites
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