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PNG parliament partially opens the door for 22 women MPs

24/11/2011 08:20

Women gather outside the PNG parliament in October 2007 to bring the attention of PNG's leaders to the growing "violence against women" epidemic. PNG has one of the world's highest rates of violence against women. Papua New Guinea’s parliament has passed legislation to partially...

Singaporean jailed over role in 2006 PNG-Taiwan diplomatic scandal

16/11/2011 07:36

Singaporean Wu Shih-tsai jailed over role in PNG-Taiwan diplomatic scandal. Picture courtesy of Asia One News A Singaporean man has been jailed for three years and 10 months by Taiwan’s high court over his role in the 2006 Papua New Guinea-Taiwan diplomatic scandal. Wu...

This is PNG's notorious wife beater and torturer Simon Bernard

15/11/2011 08:55

Rogue ex-copper Simon Bernard continues to evade arrest by Papua New Guinea police. Bernard was a policeman until his sacking for the torture and assault of his wife Joy Wartovo over a six-year period, and has been on the run since orders were issued that he be arrested and charged. PNG...

Papua New Guinea Attorney General decries bench warrant for his arrest

11/11/2011 22:21

Under siege Papua New Guinea Attorney General Dr Allan Marat says the Supreme Court should have given him the opportunity to be heard before it issued an order for his arrest. The MP, who has a bench warrant out for his arrest, is currently in his Rabaul electorate in East New...

PNG plunged into constitutional crisis with high court ordering arrest of politicians

11/11/2011 15:59

PNG Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah who has a bench warrant out for his arrest. Papua New Guinea has been plunged into a constitutional crisis with the Supreme Court issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of Acting Prime Minister Belden Namah and Attorney General Dr Allan...

PNG government suspends chief justice in new twist to legal saga over its constitutionality

10/11/2011 19:50

(L-R) Acting PNG Prime Minister Belden announces the suspension of chief justice Sir Salamo Injia (center) this afternoon after Prime Minister Peter O'Neill (right) flew to Hawaii for the APEC summit. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government has suspended Chief Justice...

Coral reef fisheries in PNG under threat from climate change

07/11/2011 15:41

A Papua New Guinean man and his child in a dugout canoe fishing near a coral reef in PNG. A new book published by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) says coral reef fisheries in the Pacific Islands are under threat from climate change. Picture by...

Police are not in the business of killing people, says PNG top cop

01/11/2011 17:03

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) police top brass has urged its men and women to keep a cool head telling them they "are not in the business to kill people". The Pacific Islands nation is plagued by increasing lawlessness with police unable to contain crime and sporadic ethnic...

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...

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