April 2025

Australia Boosts Education in Wau-Waria with Direct Aid Programme Support

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Wau-Waria District, Morobe Province, 27 April 2025 – Australia has reaffirmed its strong partnership with Papua New Guinea by announcing major new educational support initiatives for Wau-Waria District in Morobe, under the Direct Aid Programme. During a recent visit to Wau-Waria earlier this month, Australian Consul-General to Lae, Brenton Kanowski, said Australia remained committed to […]

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LDC Moves to Reclaim 3-Mile State Land in Lae

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Lae, Morobe Province, Sunday, 27 April 2025 – The Livestock Development Corporation (LDC) has launched a determined operation to reclaim State land at 3-Mile, Lae, starting with Portion 234, following years of illegal occupation and dubious title transfers. After visiting the affected land during Easter, LDC Managing Director Mr Terry Koim said the facts were

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PNG at 50 🇵🇬 | Remembering Leigh Vial: A Coastwatcher, a Mountaineer, a Quiet Hero

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LAE, April 25, 2025 – As the rising sun pierced through the misty trees at the Lae War Cemetery this ANZAC Day morning, the solemn sounds of the bugle drifted across rows of white headstones — silent sentinels to sacrifice. Among the more than 2,800 Commonwealth war graves in this hallowed ground lies one name

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ANZAC Day in Lae: Honouring Sacrifice, Deepening Bonds in Papua New Guinea’s 50th Year

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LAE, Friday, 25 April 2025 – As dawn broke over the Lae War Cemetery this morning, a solemn silence fell over the gathered crowd — a moment of quiet reflection shared by Papua New Guineans, Australians, New Zealanders, and regional partners as they commemorated Anzac Day on hallowed ground. The 2025 Anzac Day Dawn Service

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Hope and Healing in Lae: Angau’s Cancer Ward Sets a New Benchmark for PNG Health Care

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Lae, Easter Sunday, 2025 – In the heart of Morobe Province, the cancer treatment ward at Angau Memorial General Hospital is quietly transforming lives—and the national conversation around cancer care in Papua New Guinea. Once a symbol of an overburdened health system, Angau’s cancer ward is now emerging as a centre of compassion, medical discipline,

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PNG at 50 🇵🇬: By His Side – A Journalist’s Journey Through Cancer and the Power of a Praying Wife

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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

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PNG at 50 🇵🇬 | Bart Philemon Reflects on Modern Struggles and a Lifetime of Change at 80th Birthday Celebration in Butibam

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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

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🇵🇬 PNG at 50: Delegation Departs for China to Support STEM Students and Strengthen Education Partnerships

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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

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Livestock Corporation to Evict Squatters from Key State Land at Three Mile to Revive Agriculture Investment

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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

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PNG at 50 🇵🇬: NARI Deputy Director Calls for Clear Policy, Tax Incentives to Grow Domestic Rice Industry

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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,

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