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Greenpeace ship returns to PNG capital amidst controversy

29/10/2011 01:17
  A child from Pomio village poses during a protest in Pomio. Local Pomio landowners are protesting against the biggest land grab in PNG history. Under a lease system called SABLs (special agricultural and business leases) forests are being destroyed and customary land is being...

PNG starts talks with Australia to resurrect the Enhanced Cooperation Program

13/10/2011 14:10
Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers who were deployed to PNG in 2005 under the Enhanced Cooperation Program (ECP). Their engagement was later nullified after the PNG Supreme Court ruled their immunities were unconstitutional.   Papua New Guinea has started...

Solomon Islands Opposition warns Papua New Guinea

12/10/2011 17:48
The Solomon Islands parliament in Honiara. Its parliamentarians represent 50 constituencies.   The Solomon Islands Opposition has warned Papua New Guinea that the K100 million ($AU42 million) grant it recently pledged to the Solomon Islands could be siphoned. PNG recently...

Aid and Manus Island on the agenda at the PNG-Australia Joint Ministerial Forum

11/10/2011 16:21
  Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill flew into Canberra this afternoon for talks with Australian aid and the Manus Island asylum seekers processing centre on the agenda. His visit follows a tumultuous two months in PNG politics, culminating with the toppling of...

Rimbunan Hijau welcomes PNG police investigations

10/10/2011 22:05
Pictures of placards distributed anonymously via email today condemning the Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group and asking it it to leave Pomio in the East New Britain province. Despite the opposition the company said most landowners supported the project.   Malaysian logging giant...

Kulunga: police brutality targetting anti-logging villagers to be investigated

09/10/2011 23:29
Forestry product exports were K186.7 million in the first quarter of this year and accounted for 4.6 percent of Papua New Guinea's total export merchandise according to the Bank of Papua New Guinea   Investigations have begun in Papua New Guinea into reports police...

PM O'Neill: Bougainville's Aropa airport to be re-opened in December

07/10/2011 04:53
A lone standing radio tower at Aropa airport in the autonomous region of Bougainville. A brick structure, which can be seen in the distance, is all that remains of the Air Niugini terminal which was destroyed during the 10-year conflict.   Aropa airport, the international...

PNG pledges AU$42 million to Solomon Islands and agrees to lift work permit restrictions

06/10/2011 21:00
Solomon Islands central bank in Honiara, Solomo Islands. The Solomon Islands government is hoping the lifting of work permit restrictions could lead to long term benefits for its economy.   Papua New Guinea (PNG) has pledged K100 million (AU$42 million) in development grants to...

Papua New Guineans go viral on social media condemning police wife beater

06/10/2011 14:24
  The Facebook group page PAPUA NEW GUINEANS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE which was created on Wednesday 5 October. It appears to be the fastest growing PNG-related Facebook group with over 4000 members signing up in less than 24 hours.   Papua...

Rudd announces $40 million funding for PNG health infrastructure

01/10/2011 14:09
Kevin Rudd MP being welcomed to Goroka, Eastern Highlands province as the Australian prime minister in a state visit to Papua New Guinea in March 2008.     Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd today announced $40 million in funding for health...
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