The Write Stuff PNG

Senior U.S. officials to visit the Solomon Islands amid China security concerns

Australia, International relations, Solomon Islands, USA / Admin

By Michael Martina and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) – White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell and the State Department’s top official for Asia will travel this week to the Solomon Islands, the White House said on Monday, amid concerns that the Pacific Island country is making a security pact with China. Campbell and […]

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PNG Air resumes flights to Tari, Hela

Aviation, Hela, PNG Air, Tourism PNG / Admin

APRIL 19 2022 PNG Air wishes to advise passengers and the travelling public that flights into Tari, Hela Province have now resumed. This follows a suspension that was placed on April 1 due to safety concerns over recent civil unrests in the provincial capital. Passengers can now book tickets to travel online at www.pngair.com.pg, or

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Twenty20 Energy to build 66MW, gas-fired power plant in Hela

Hela, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), PNG Power Ltd / Admin

APRIL 18 2022 SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twenty20 Energy Systems today announced plans to design, build and maintain a 66MW, gas-fired power plant in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province on behalf of Dirio Gas & Power Company Ltd. The Hela power plant is the newest investment project in the power generation business for Dirio Gas & Power, which

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Geoff Baskett unifies PNG through song

Australia, Church, Media, PNG History, Songs, World War II / Admin

Every September 16, Papua New Guineans join together to celebrate our 33rd anniversary of independence, linking hands to the refrain of ‘Oh Arise All You Sons’. As we all join hands, spare a thought for other unity songs of that eventful period of PNG’s history, which did so much to bring together the many different

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The extraordinary life of Ian Boden in PNG

2 Comments / Madang, Media, PNG History, Tribute / Admin

By MALUM NALU This article was first published on November 4 2008. When The National’s news editor Jacqueline Kapigeno told me the sad news of the passing of Ian Boden early on the morning of November 4, 2008, a deep and profound sense of loss went through my heart, a feeling on behalf of all

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Latest testing requirements for travel to PNG

Air Niugini, Aviation, Tourism PNG / Admin

AIR NIUGINI APRIL 17 2022 For all passengers on Air Niugini flights arriving into Port Moresby from 1am on Monday, April 18, 2022, there is no longer a requirement to provide evidence at check-in of a negative PCR test, nor to complete the online health declaration form. The requirement to complete a rapid test on

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Noel Bluett was a founder of PNG’s coffee industry

1 Comment / Agriculture, Eastern Highlands, PNG History, Tribute / Admin

APRIL 17 2022 Australian Noel Bluett, a founder of Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry and a man with many strong connections to this country, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014, in Cairns. The late Noel Bluett, executive officer of Coffee Marketing Board from 1965-1971. Many of his family members are still resident in PNG

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A Kainantu woman of substance

1 Comment / Agriculture, Eastern Highlands, PNG History, Tourism PNG, Tribute, Women / Admin

By MALUM NALU BACK in 1984, while doing Grade 11 at Aiyura National High School in the Eastern Highlands, my class did a weekend trek from Aiyura to Yonki. On a cold, wet, Saturday night, we overnighted at Arau Coffee Plantation run by a legendary Australian woman Muriel McGowan Larner. Larner, the mother of one

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The legend of Sinake Giregire

Agriculture, Eastern Highlands, Features, PNG History, Tribute / Admin

This article was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU I first met legendary Highlands politician and businessman, Sir Sinake Giregire – who passed away in January 2012 – one fine morning in July 2000. That beautiful Goroka morning, while I was working with the Coffee Industry Corporation in Goroka, I drove up to his

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Lloyd Hurrell founded PNG’s great coffee industry

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This story was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU The Coffee Industry Corporation board room in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, is named the Lloyd Hurrell Board Room. Who was Lloyd Hurrell and what was his contribution to Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry? Lloyd Hurrell was a remarkable man, a pioneer coffee grower in Wau and

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