Death penalty not a solution for sorcery killings: Dame Carol Kidu
By ABC Canberra correspondent Karen BarlowLong-serving Papua New Guinea parliamentarian, Dame Carol Kidu, says the death penalty will not help solve the problem of sorcery-related violence in the...
View ArticleSorcery in PNG can be a force for good
ABCA three-day conference addressing witchcraft and sorcery killings in Melanesia is taking place at Australia's National University in Canberra.Jeffrey Buchanan from UN Women in PNG says there is...
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Rodney Pora has played last game for Whitehaven RL
News & StarRodney Pora has played his last game for Whitehaven. The international prop returned home to Papua New Guinea two weeks ago to be with his son, who was seriously ill in hospital. Rodney...
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Surprises at changes in Goroka show leadership
By MALUM NALUEastern Highlands Agricultural Society (EHAS) president Wilson Orlegge Thompson has expressed surprise that Eastern Highlands provincial government has taken over the running of the...
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Landslides take toll on key PNG highway
PORT MORESBY, 4 July 2013 (IRIN) - A vital highway, long regarded as the single most important road in Papua New Guinea (PNG), is slowly being destroyed by landslides. “It’s not a highway any more,”...
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Lae Market facilities need attention
By BAPA BOMOTENG Lae Market goerThe beautiful and abundant fresh food market in the whole country, Lae market needs attention badly. We have bought and traded in the market for years, but continue to...
View ArticleTampering with the Constitution is simply a sign of entrenching power.
By PETER ANDREW KOLIP At the recent People’s National Congress (PNC) Party Convention in Lae, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill indicated that the party will push to have the Constitution changed in some...
View ArticleIndonesian diplomatic manoeuvre delays West Papuan independence
Indonesia has invited the foreign ministers of four Pacific Island countries to visit its two easternmost provinces, Papua and West Papua, to see for themselves if the people want independence. The...
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Reaching more survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea
Medicins Sans FrontieresPapua New Guinea 2012 © Philippe Schneider Clinical Supervisor Martha Pogo provides training to a Department of Health nurse on providing essential care to survivors of family...
View ArticleTelikom picks Huawei for national broadband network rollout
Telicompaper Papua New Guinea operator Telikom has selected Huawei to roll out a national broadband network. The national broadband project is supported by shareholder IPBC and the government. The new...
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Wantok SING SING added to Boomerang Festival
by Paul Cashmere in Noise 11The Boomerang Festival will feature a special performance from Wantok SING SING performing Wan Solwara Pipel.Wantok SING SING represented Oceania at the London Olympic...
View ArticleThe classrooms are full – but the students can’t read
Inter Press ServiceSYDNEY, Jul 07 (IPS) - Many Pacific Island nations are celebrating the success of rising school enrolment rates, with 14 members of the 16-member Pacific Island Forum on target to...
View ArticleMore-secure PNG passport introduced
By MALUM NALUThe PNG Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority (PNGICSA) has introduced a more-secure machine-readable passport which incorporates photo-ghost imaging on the personal particular...
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Ailing public hospitals in PNG: a radical remedy from Africa?
By Neelam Sekhri Feachem and Jane Thomason on July 8, 2013 in Development Policy Centre BlogThe Prime Minister of PNG publicly decries the state of PNG hospitals, and regularly approaches his near...
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World Bank funded coffee project expands
By AUGUSTINE DOMINIC of CICThe significant contribution of smallholder coffee farmers in Papua New Guinea was highlighted recently during the contract signing of the second call of proposals of the...
View ArticleRugby league: Two dead in PNG match violence
AFPTwo people were killed and several injured in chaotic scenes at a rugby league match in Papua New Guinea sparked by a drunken supporter attacking a security guard with a machete, reports said...
View ArticleIsrael and the nations
By SHOSHANA RAPPEPORTHello!My name is Shoshana Rappeport, I am writing to you from Israel.I have read your blog entry from Nov. 30, 2007 about the book: "Bina Mene: Connecting the Hebrews" by General...
View ArticlePNG rugby league chief denies sport is a magnet for violence after Highlands...
ABCRugby League officials in Papua New Guinea say the sport is not a magnet for violence despite a riot in the Highlands over the weekend which left one person dead.The brawl happened near the end of a...
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Chimbu women hold mini agriculture show
ByAUGUSTINE DOMINICWomen farmers in 14 different council wards of the Tabare local level government (LLG) in the Sinasina /Yongomugl district of Chimbu province are seeking a definite market to sell...
View ArticleRudd to visit PNG next week
From: AAP AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea next week.His PNG counterpart Peter O'Neill announced the visit today.Mr O'Neill noted in a statement that Mr Rudd...
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