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Contractors continue camp outside HQ -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82466
Police force labelled incompetent -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f89bbe
Human Rights Clinic Teams with Scientists to Investigate Conditions at Gold Mine -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3f0e61
Ramu NiCo Plans to Raise Production -- http://giaman.com/pg/?fc44aa
Pedestrian footbridge for Hohola -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82469
Former Port Moresby Governor Wari Vele calls on Parkop to resign -- http://giaman.com/pg/?5e8ddd
PNG Power installs STATCOM-SVG to boost electric city in Madang -- http://giaman.com/pg/?516e84
Pacific Angel 2015 in Goroka -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f0c5a6
Misc. Links
A Taste of Biocultural Revival -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8ee7c3
PNG Facts -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8baf19
Off Their Nut In PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4717a2
A Trail of Murder and Revenge -- http://giaman.com/pg/?167610
Papua New Guinea Books Useful Articles & Information -- http://www.pngbuai.com/
Recipes from PNG -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/recipe4.html
Food, Dining, & Drinks in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?c9ac0b
University of Papua New Guinea -- http://www.upng.ac.pg
Blog of the Pacific Institute -- http://giaman.com/pg/?17bbbc
Milne Bay Island Hopping -- http://giaman.com/pg/?0c4ac3
Missionaries almost erased a tribe's history, but for a Pasadena man's tape recorder -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4c6bbc
PNG Images
Villagers to protest police killing -- http://giaman.com/pg/?429045
Tok Piksa - Episode 4, 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3b2fb2
Go underwater with National Geographic photographers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4aeb43
Road to Port Moresby - Episode 11, 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?9adaff
News Items
US Small Grants Program
The US Ambassador's Small Grants Program deadline is rapidly approaching. The deadline is the 13th of Feb at 4:30pm PNG time.
The overall objective of this round of the Ambassador's Small Grants Program is to increase the capacity of community based organizations in Papua New Guinea to effectively work within their communities to reduce women's HIV vulnerability associated with alcohol abuse and violence against women and girls.
-- http://portmoresby.usembassy.gov/we-small-grants.html
Death Penalty
13 people on death row are expected to be executed this year after Cabinet endorsed the proposed guidelines for the implementation of death penalty, it has been revealed. Cabinet approved the guidelines for the three modes of punishment - death by hanging, administration of anaesthetics followed by injection, and death by firing squad.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82405
Churches Oppose Death Penalty
The Church Leaders Council has reiterated its opposition to the death penalty, saying no one but God has the right to end a person's life.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82483
New Colonels
The Defence Force will now have four new branch heads that will support the commander in implementing his 2015 intent and priorities of the force. The four new colonels are Siale Diro, Wenzel Esekia, John Rakatani, Dominic Bolongor and Ben Siria.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?bf68ec
Games Security
The public and the Government expect the Defence Force to provide adequate security during the Pacific Games in July, commander Brig-Gen Gilbert Toropo says.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82398
Vale Daniel Mona
The member of Goilala, Daniel Mona, has died. He died in hospital in the Philippines. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has expressed his sorrow at the untimely passing of the MP. "I am deeply saddened by the untimely passing of a promising young leader who was an active supporter of our government on the floor of Parliament."
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a1559f
Police Motorcycles
The Chinese Embassy has donated 20 motorcycles to the police force to help in their work.
Last year China donated 10,000 sets of uniforms.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82486
Madang Legal Year
The legal year has been opened officially on Madang with the theme "to serve without fear or favour".
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?2b2eb7
Cooking With Gas?
Hamish McDonald asks "Will the benefits of Papua New Guinea's first LNG project and wider economic boom empower locals?" One person doing the asking is Charles Lepani, the PNG high commissioner in Canberra and former head of Port Moresby's National Planning Office. He sees "a yawning gap or chasm between policies and politics on the one hand in Papua New Guinea, and the will and capacity to spend PNG's increasing wealth on the priorities that will bring about qualitative change in the lives of our people, particularly the rural majority."
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?1227cf
Hybrid Rice
A private company and a local government in Papua New Guinea are keen on growing Philippine-sourced hybrid rice as a field trial being done by SL Agritech is dispelling the belief that rice cannot be grown in that country.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a6da16
US Ambassador Visits Lae
U.S. Ambassador Walter North has visited UniTech in Lae, Morobe Province. He spoke with the first year students as part of the University of Technology 2015 Orientation Ceremony.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c6e6f2
UPNG Academic Year
The University of PNG will start its new academic year on the 16th of March with arriving at the university on the 1st of March.
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82467
Manus Refugees
Papua New Guinea has granted refugee status to 30 Manus Island detainees as efforts continue to return most asylum seekers held there to their home countries. Another 80 who have had their applications rejected intend to appeal
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0ec7c1
Media Niugini Limited
The parent company of EM TV, Media Niugini Limited, is now 100 per cent PNG-owned. Telikom PNG, through the Independent Public Business Corporation, now owns 100 per cent of shares in Media Niugini Limited.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?874fb5
EM TV, under Media Niugini Limited, is Papua New Guinea's longest-running television network.
Melanesian 'Oppression'
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has promised to do more to speak out on behalf of Melanesians in Indonesian West Papua.
Apart from Vanuatu, governments in the Pacific have been slow to speak out on human rights abuses in West Papua, especially after Fiji was instrumental in getting Indonesia admitted as an observer at the Melanesian Spearhead Group of nations.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?fcda02
Lae Water Shortage
Lae, is facing a major water crisis after a bore pump broke as a result of frequent power blackouts in the city.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?77bb70
Wet Season
A weather forecast has explained that the country was currently experiencing the peak of the wet season and this may continue for the next three months with possible moderate cyclone and heavy rains.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a56f9d
Rabaul Queen Case
Three years on from the Rabaul Queen inter-island ferry disaster in Papua New Guinea, court proceedings against the ship's owner Peter Sharp and four others are yet to be determined.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?57fb63
No Police Compo
A senior officer says police will not pay the medical expenses of people injured during the clash with Hanuabada villagers last month
-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/82470
Kokopo Taxi Service
The increasing demand for taxi services over the years in Kokopo has ensured that the existing service is one of the fastest growing in this town.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?41a38a
Canoe Team
The Papua New Guinea Men's Outrigger Canoeing Team returned from the Australian National Springs title in Queensland, Australia with a Gold Medal and two bronze medals.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8cfb7b
Public Servants Warned
Deputy Chief Justice Gibbs Salika has warned Government officials, MPs and public office holders not to dip their fingers into public monies. Salika said a single act of dishonesty destroys all the good work one has done.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?23a610
New Malaria Treatment
Australian and Papua New Guinean researchers say they have discovered a treatment that completely cures one of the most common strains of malaria worldwide. But the treatment still needs to be assessed and approved by the World Health Organisation and the Papua New Guinean government.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5476b0
New Court Complex
Chief Justice of PNG Sir Salamoa Injia told a gathering at the ground breaking ceremony of the new National and Supreme Court complex in Waigani, Port Moresby that the construction would be completed in time for the APEC meet in 2018 and he would be happy to invite the President of US Barrack Obama to view the new construction.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5a250a
Madang / Goroka Highway
An alternative highway to connect the Eastern Highlands province to Madang has been launched. The 53 kilometre road will run from the Dunantina Local Level Government area in Henganofi to Ramu. It has been estimated the road will take six months to complete. People along the route have been warned not to demand compensation unnecessarily from the state during the construction phase.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?1080be
Westpac Vanimo
Westpac Bank has installed a new Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) outside a local branch in Vanimo.
The new ATM facility is located outside the new Vanimo Supermarket. The supermarket also contains a Westpac branch, allowing customers to apply for personal loans or cards and conduct a range of banking transactions.
-- http://giaman.com/pg/?16332e
Coming Events
Note: please verify any date mentioned as dates change and events can sometimes get cancelled. Of course I may also put down a wrong date.
MV Ammari to visit PNG in 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?b0355c
Pacific Games - PNG 4 to 18 July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78
Remembrance Day, 23 July 2015
National Day of Repentance, 26 August 2015
PNG Medical Symposium, usually September 2015
Goroka Show, September 2015
PNG Independence Day, 16 September 2015
Morobe Show, October 2015
Alotau Canoe and Kundu Festival, November 2015
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2015
Christmas Day - 25 December 2015
Boxing Day - 26 December 2015
Trade Pasifika - 2016 in Port Moresby
Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017
2018 - APEC summit to be held in Port Moresby.
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