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PNG Volcanoes
The following are volcanoes in PNG that have had recent activity i.e. since 1900. If you know of any others please let the newsletter know. -- http://pnggossip.com/misc/ctc.html.
Bagana -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagana
Garbuna -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbuna_Group
Karkar -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karkar_Island
Lamington -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lamington
Langila -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langila
Lolobau -- http://www.volcanolive.com/lolobau.html
Long Island -- http://www.volcanolive.com/longisland.html
Manam -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manam
Pago -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pago_(volcano)
Ritter Island -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritter_Island
Tavurvur -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavurvur
Tuluman -- http://www.volcanolive.com/tuluman.html
Ulawun -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulawun
Victory -- http://www.volcanolive.com/victory.html
Waiowa -- http://www.volcanolive.com/waiowa.html
More reading -- http://www.jaffamood.com/ordinary-life-on-vulcano
Misc Links About PNG
The website of Tulele Peisa -- http://tuelepeisa.org
My Amazing Paradise -- http://www.myamazingparadise.com
Mt Hagen Handicrafts -- http://www.hagenhandicrafts.com/baby-bilums.php
Lissenung Island Resort -- http://www.lissenung.com
Fear Eats the Soul, Faith Restores It -- http://toptravelleads.com/tag/goroka
Send Money Pacific -- http://www.sendmoneypacific.org
PNG Blogs
Baby 'Roo At The Zoo Looks At You -- http://giaman.com/pg/?bbf0c5
Radio St Gabriel - a voice of the church -- http://giaman.com/pg/?7f7de3
Jane Tompsett's diary from PNG -- http://janeinpng.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/christmas
Chad Wells Family Blog -- http://chadwellsfamily.com/pngblog/?p=1693
PNG Blogs -- http://www.pngblogs.com
Malum Nalu -- http://malumnalu.blogspot.com
Western Highlands Province -- http://whponline.blogspot.com
Ramu Nickel Mine Watch -- http://ramumine.wordpress.com
PNG in the News
Sir Paulias: I am now an unemployed "lapun" -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/14966
K113m to be saved by cuts on advisers -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101222/news04.htm
Reports say the higher education minister, Michael Ogio, is to be the acting governor-general -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=57746
K157mil broadband network -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/15049
The Government is challenging a Supreme Court order to recall parliament to elect a new Governor-General -- http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201012/3096263.htm
PNG experience eye-opener -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ee395f
Bitter and Sweet Dreams -- http://www.greendump.net/tag/madang-province
Judge Sevua "forced" to retire on the 6th of Jan -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/14997
Villages in dire need of basic services -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101221/news03.htm
PNG Images
Milne Bay War Canoe -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/29122604@N05/5245106883
Vanimo -- http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=-2.6896767&ln=141.2998457&z=4
Slide Show -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dnrTe-Cj0
The Prettiest Smile in PNG -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ameliatzeni/1812467439
GabaGaba kids -- http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2834682
Kid Climbs a Buai Palm in PNG -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q426ZzACZrM
Fast food robbers fail -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/15045
Lae -- http://www.travelpod.com/photos/0/Papua%20New%20Guinea/Lae.html
News Items
Morobe Wants Independence
Luther Wenge, the Governor of Morobe province, is calling for independence from the rest of PNG. The leader of the People's Progress Party and New Ireland governor, Sir Julius Chan, says he supports Governor Wenge's call. Sir Julius says the continuous breaches and flouting of the constitution by the Somare lead government has eroded the confidence of the general population. He is calling on acting Prime Minister, Sam Abal, to work towards restoring the public trust in National government.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/15006
Mt Lamington
On the 21st of January 2011 it will be 60 years since Mount Lamington, in Oro (Northern) province, erupted after only giving an initial four to five days of unrest killing 3,000 people. An estimated 40,000 people would have to be evacuated if it erupted again, and most of the surrounding communities have no roads and little access to any form of communication. PNG does not have a good record at being ready. Manam Island erupted in 2004 with approx. 10,000 people being evacuated to the mainland. Six years later many of these people are still displaced.
The responsibility of monitoring activity of 16 active volcanoes across PNG is held by the Rabaul Vulcanological Observatory (RVO) on the island of New Britain home to several well known volcanoes such as Tavurvur, Ulawun and Pago but also Langila and Garbuna are on the island.
PNG, with about six million inhabitants, is situated on the Pacific Rim of Fire and highly prone to disaster yet is the country ready?
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Papua_New_Guinea
Compensation Demanded From Somare
A senior police officer in Wewak has confirmed that one of the Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare Grand Chief's sons is alleged to have drawn a shot gun on East Sepik Governor Peter Wararu Waranaka. Relatives of the Governor are demanding K5 million in compensation from the Somare family.
Full Story -- http://giaman.com/pg/?94ad8f
Police promise to arrest Somare Jr -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/15172
Mt Hagen Escape
25 criminals have escaped from the Mt Hagen police cell in the Western Highlands in two separate incidents within six days.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?bc9d99
Neanderthal Link
New genetic information that appeared in Nature on the 23rd of December links the modern-day Melanesians of PNG with Neanderthals living in central Asia about 40,000 years ago. The presence of the ancient group's genes in modern-day humans suggests that the new group, christened "Denisovans" was once widespread throughout Asia.
The Denisovans are a previously unknown kind of human.
See Nature News -- http://giaman.com/pg/?e42237
Milne Bay Budget
The Milne Bay provincial government has passed a budget of almost K100 million. The K99,508,200 budget passed through the assembly with little debate and was the largest to date.
-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101220/news06.htm
The Provincial Government has set aside K1 million from the budget as its contribution to the cost of establishing a new high school in the province. The high school will be built at the United Church Lawes College on the west cost of Suau Rural Local Level Government area in Alotau District on the mainland border area of Milne Bay and Central provinces.
-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101221/southernpost01.htm
See also - Eastern Highlands Provincial Assembly passes 2011 budget -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101222/news08.htm
Cholera in NCD
Cholera has resurfaced in the National Capital District. The Post Courier reported on the 17th of December that 188 confirmed cases had been reported over the last four days in the nation's capital. The cholera ward at the Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) is reportedly encountering new cases at the rate of over 30 a day.
Full story -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20101217/news12.htm
WikiLeaks and Julian Moti
Julian Moti, who fled PNG in the middle of the night in a PNG Defence Force Plane, has said the "WikiLeaks cable" documents have proved how notorious the USA and its pacific puppets are.
Read more in the article from the Solomon Star News -- http://giaman.com/pg/?22e9ad
Three years after the conclusion of the Defence Force Board of Inquiry (DFBoI) into the Moti Affair involving the clandestine flight of Moti to the Solomon Islands in 2006, the Defence Force and the State still owes over K1.8 million in payment for outstanding bills for amenities, including payments to the support staff of the inquiry.
See -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/15080
PNG Stamps
An interesting web page dealing with the overprinting of PNG stamps. -- http://www.glenstephens.com/overprints.html -- and the reason why it was done at great haste by commercial printers within the country.
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Two medical staff, a water and sanitation expert and a logistician from MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) have commenced a trip up the Fly River in Western Province to provide emergency care in areas that so far had received little or no cholera assistance. MSF (PNG) head of mission, Hernan del Valle, said "The response in Daru itself has been good, but many remote, rural areas with bad infrastructure and weak communication systems are not able to respond to the outbreak or report the number of people affected by the disease."
Nearly 3,000 cholera cases and over 300 deaths have been recorded in Western province since the outbreak was first reported in October this year.
Wara Bilong Life
Wara Bilong Life was a three-month Social Studies, Technology Education and Health online project which finished in December 2010. 18 classes in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea assisted with school health education for their peers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. After researching about life for their peers in PNG, they designed a method of washing hands that required very little water with accompanying health education materials. Students were also encouraged to think about their own water usage. Academics and practising engineers gave the students feedback on their designs and health education materials. Do take a look at the solutions at --
http://www.megabright.co.nz/Wara_Bilong_Life/solutions.html
Rosetta Project
The Rosetta database contains information about languages spoken in PNG -- http://www.rosettaproject.org
Wamira Village
Wamira village - group of children palm frond weaving taken in 1921 by Frank Hurley -- http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3356456
Here is another picture this time a spearman of Wamira once again taken in 1921 -- http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3307490
Walk to Wamira Village -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/wamira.html
Kokoda Crash Update
The PNG Accident Investigation Commission (AIC) has handed a draft report into a crash that killed 13 people near the Kokoda track to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The AIC says it expects to release a final report in the first quarter of 2011.
PNG Wins Oceania Cup
The PNG under 16 team has won the Aussie Rules Oceania Cup after winning 53-7 against Tonga in Nukualofa. In other results Fiji secured third spot with victory over Nauru and first-time entrants Solomon Islands toppled New Zealand in the playoff for fifth place.
Tulele Peisa
Tulele Peisa "sailing the waves on our own" is a local community organisation in Papua New Guinea that is trying to relocate the whole island community of the Carterets to nearby Bougainville because of the impacts of climate change.
-- http://tuelepeisa.org
Manee Resource Centre
The Manee Resource Centre is a project in the middle of the Kongara mountain forests in Bougainville being built for the preservation of certain old traditional knowledge of people in this area. Please read this amazing story of two brothers and their dream.
-- http://www.myamazingparadise.com/?p=328
Coming Events
Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 3 - 22nd - 29th January 2011
International Women's Day (IWD) - 8th March 2011 - The first IWD was run in 1911 so 2011 sees the IWD Global Centenary.
Arafura Games - 7 - 14th of May 2011 -- http://www.arafuragames.nt.gov.au
Wahgi Sing Sing -- June 2011
Rabaul "Kimawai" -- July 2011
Mount Hagen Cultural Show -- 13th and 14th of August 2011
Goroka Show -- September 2011
Morobe Show -- October 2011
Canoe and Kundu Festival -- November 2011
Full Pacific Games - New Caledonia 2011
National Elections - Scheduled for June 2012
2012 PNG Games - Kokopo, East New Britain
Pacific Mini Games - Wallis and Futuna 2013
Full Pacific Games - PNG 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78
Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- ../misc/ctc.html
Coming Events
Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 3 - 22nd - 29th January 2011
International Women's Day (IWD) - 8th March 2011 - The first IWD was run in 1911 so 2011 sees the IWD Global Centenary.
Arafura Games - 7 - 14th of May 2011 -- http://www.arafuragames.nt.gov.au
Wahgi Sing Sing -- June 2011
Rabaul "Kimawai" -- July 2011
Mount Hagen Cultural Show -- 13th and 14th of August 2011
Goroka Show -- September 2011
Morobe Show -- October 2011
Canoe and Kundu Festival -- November 2011
Full Pacific Games - New Caledonia 2011
National Elections - Scheduled for June 2012
2012 PNG Games - Kokopo, East New Britain
Pacific Mini Games - Wallis and Futuna 2013
Full Pacific Games - PNG 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78
Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- ../misc/ctc.html
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