Lae, Easter Sunday, 2025 – In one of the side rooms of the Cancer Ward at Angau Memorial Hospital in Lae, a husband and wife sit quietly together, as they have done for months now. There’s a sense of stillness, but beneath it all is a story of pain, love, prayer, and the fight for […]
LAE, Saturday, 19 April 2025 – Former senior minister and respected statesman Bart Philemon marked his 80th birthday on Saturday, April 19, 2025, at Butibam Village in Lae with an emotional and candid reflection on the dramatic changes he has witnessed across eight decades of life—from village gardening and missionary schooling to airline boardrooms and
Port Moresby, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 – A high-level delegation from Papua New Guinea departed for China today to visit PNG students studying under the Government’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programme at Three Gorges University and to strengthen bilateral cooperation in education and technical training. The STEM programme is a flagship initiative of
Lae, Monday 21 April 2025 – The Livestock Development Corporation (LDC) is set to begin evicting settlers from its long-abandoned Three Mile Livestock Training Centre in Lae, with Managing Director Terry Koim announcing plans to reclaim and redevelop the strategic government asset in line with national agriculture revitalisation efforts. The move, Koim said, follows a
Lae, Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – Papua New Guinea’s foremost rice researcher and Deputy Director General of the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI), Dr Peter Gendua, has called for urgent and strategic policy reform to unlock the full potential of the country’s domestic rice industry. Addressing the National Agriculture Public-Private Sector Partnership Conference in Lae,
Lae, Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – Papua New Guinea’s leading agricultural research body, the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI), is spearheading a quiet transformation in the nation’s rice sector, aimed at reducing dependence on costly imports and building a resilient, homegrown rice industry. Addressing the National Agriculture Industry Public-Private Sector Partnership Conference in Lae, NARI
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Port Moresby, Thursday 17 April 2025 – General Secretary of the Oil Palm Industry Corporation (OPIC), Mr Kepson Pupita, has applauded the Madang Provincial Government for its decisive leadership in becoming the first provincial administration to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with OPIC under a renewed national effort to grow Papua New Guinea’s oil
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Port Moresby, Thursday, April 17, 2025 – The Madang Provincial Government has formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Oil Palm Industry Corporation (OPIC), signalling a transformative step towards expanding the oil palm sector in the province. The MoU, signed on Thursday, April 17 in Port Moresby, was officiated by Minister for Oil
Port Moresby, Thursday 17 April 2025 – In a significant milestone for Papua New Guinea’s agriculture sector, the Madang Provincial Government and the Oil Palm Industry Corporation (OPIC) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Port Moresby that sets the foundation for a new era of inclusive, regulated, and sustainable oil palm development.
Lae, Tuesday, 8 April 2025 – The Executive Director of the Institute of National Affairs (INA), Paul Barker, has called for well-targeted and balanced regulation of Papua New Guinea’s oil palm industry, cautioning against efforts that could undermine the sector’s progress or penalise responsible operators. Speaking at the National Agriculture Industry Public-Private Sector Partnership Conference
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