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Australian police officers to aid PNG
By Liam Cochrane of ABC in Port MoresbyFifty Australian police officers will be sent to Papua New Guinea by the end of the year to help PNG with law and order problems. Australian Prime Minister, Kevin...
View ArticleUN report on Manus taken on board: Rudd
By Eoin Blackwell, AAP Papua New Guinea Correspondent PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says his government is working through the United Nation's report which heavily criticises the Australian-run...
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd describes himself as Kokoda Track survivor
By Patrick Lion, News Limited Network PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has described himself as a "survivor" of the Kokoda Track where hundreds of Australian soldiers were killed in World War II. On the...
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Kevin Rudd sorry for 'Kokoda survivor' gaffe
Source: AAP , News LimitedTwo Australian veterans who fought in Papua New Guinea during World War II have slammed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's throwaway comment that he is a "survivor" of the Kokoda...
View ArticleInterOil enters into a combined US$350 million refinery working capital facility
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, July 17, 2013— InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) announced that IOC and its subsidiaries, EP InterOil and InterOil Ltd, have entered into a US$350...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea government improves disaster preparedness funding
PORT MORESBY, 18 July 2013 (IRIN) - The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has bolstered its funding for disaster preparedness, strengthening the country's National Disaster Management Centre (NDC)...
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Australia sending new migrants to Papua New Guinea
CANBERRA, Australia (AP)— Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says all refugees who arrive in Australia by boat will be resettled on the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea.Rudd and Papua...
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In Port Moresby today
I walked around Port Moresby today and I saw all this buai pekpek (betelnut shit) and other litter around the city! To think that PNG will host the 2015 Pacific Games and APEC 2018. An emerging...
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Papua New Guinea: a country suffering spiralling violence
Australia will send asylum seekers to a country beset by crime and disease, whose children were deemed to be among the world's most vulnerableHelen Davidson guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 July 2013 The...
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Australia to send asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea
Associated PressJuly 19, 2013, 7:57 a.m.CANBERRA, Australia— Australia's prime minister warned Friday that all refugees who arrive by boat will be resettled on the island nation of Papua New Guinea, a...
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Campbell Newman predicts wave of asylum seekers escaping PNG across Torres...
Steven Scott National Political Correspondent The Courier-Mail July 21, 2013 QUEENSLAND will face a new wave of asylum seekers trying to escape Papua New Guinea under Kevin Rudd's new policy, Premier...
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Opposition supports elements of PNG asylum policy as first boat arrives
Paige Taylor The Australian THE first 81 asylum seekers subject to Kevin Rudd's new PNG regime have entered detention on Christmas Island, as the Opposition said a Coalition government would keep...
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Protesters vow fightback on refugee plan
Deborah GoughReporter for The AgeKevin Rudd's Papua New Guinea refugee plan would fail within weeks because the island nation cannot cope with the 200 Manus Island refugees it already has, protesters...
View ArticlePNG paper labels asylum plan 'Ruddiculous'
By Eoin Blackwell, AAP Papua New Guinea CorrespondentAsylum seekers sent to PNG and eligible for resettlement will not be guaranteed citizenship and may be sent elsewhere, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill...
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ISPs 'ripping off people'
By MALUM NALUThe NationalMonday, July 22, 2013 Internet service providers (ISPs) have been bluntly accused of ripping off the people of this country when it comes to internet services.Acting director...
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High internet costs due to lack of infrastructure
By MALUM NALUThe NationalMonday, May 22, 2013Internet costs are very high in Papua New Guinea because of lack of necessary infrastructure like optical fiber, according to leading PNG telecommunications...
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PNG asylum deal could be in breach of UN convention
ABCListen nowDownload audioMonday 22 July 2013 A respected expert on international refugee law has told RN Breakfast that Australia doesn’t have an asylum problem, but a political problem, and...
View ArticlePNG Prime /minister says asylum program not costed
ByEoin Blackwell, AAP Papua New Guinea Correspondent Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says projects agreed to by Australia in exchange for expanding its asylum seeker processing capability...
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Notorious PNG criminal William Kapris shot and killed by police
ABCOne of Papua New Guinea's most notorious and violent criminals, William Kapris, has been shot and killed by PNG police.National Capital District and Central Divisional Commander Jim Andrews has told...
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Tuesday July 23 is Remembrance day in Papua New Guinea
Tuesday July 23 is a public holiday in Papua New Guinea and marks the 71st anniversary of the first engagement by PNG and Australian forces against the invading Japanese in WWII.Out of the chaos and...
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