By MALUM NALU In March 2016, I was privileged to have been invited by the late Deputy Prime Minister and Bulolo MP, Hon. Sam Basil, to visit his beautiful home in Buang, Bulolo, Morobe. He was in Opposition at that time. Buang is an amazing and spiritual land of mountains, rivers and waterfalls. You can […]
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May 14, 2022 ZEELAND, Mich. (AP) — A soldier who died when a B-25 bomber went down in Papua New Guinea during World War II has been laid to rest in his western Michigan hometown nearly eight decades after his death. A memorial for Cpl. LaVerne Van Dyke. Dozens of relatives and local residents who
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By MALUM NALU This story was first published on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 There is a breathtaking view of the Markham Valley, Nadzab Airport and Lake Wanam stretching all the way to Lae along the Gabensis-Muniau Road in Morobe province. I took the drive along this road, which has been neglected for the last seven
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POLICE MEDIA MAY 4 2022 Police Deputy Commissioner Operations Anton Billie last week launched the Gulf province’s pre-election security operations. Present at the launch were the Acting Provincial Administrator Emmanuel Xaviel, Gulf Provincial Election Manager Poevare Tore, members of the Provincial Election Steering Committee; members of the Gulf Provincial Government, Acting Southern Divisional Commander CIP
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MAY 2 2022 Air Niugini is pleased to advise that passengers traveling to Singapore now will no longer require pre-departure tests. Singapore also doesn’t require pre-departure testing for passengers transiting through Singapore onto flights to other international destinations. However, should your final destination require a pre-departure test, evidence of this will need to be shown
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AIR NIUGINI As of Thursday, April 28, 2022, COVID-19 tests on arrival in Port Moresby are no longer required for passengers arriving from Australia. However, tests for passengers arriving from Singapore, Philippines and China (including Hong Kong) are still required but the testing fee has been reduced to K150 per passenger. Passengers arriving from Asia
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APRIL 26 2022 Livestock Development Corporation (LDC) now has an established cattle-buying point at remote Sialum in Tewai-Siassi, Morobe, to supply cattle to the whole country, according to LDC Managing-Director Terry Koim. The LDC has already built a stock yard, rehabilitated the jetty and will next be looking at building an abattoir in Sialum. The
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By Reuters April 21, 2022 By Kirsty Needham, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior-level U.S. delegation met the Solomon Islands’ leader on Friday and warned that Washington would have “significant concerns and respond accordingly” to any steps to establish a permanent Chinese military presence in the Pacific island nation. A White House
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POLICE MEDIA APRIL 22 2022 Assistant Commissioner NCD/Central Anthony Wagambie Jnr has welcomed 126 police reservists, who passed out from the Bomana Correctional Services Training College recently, to the National Capital District (NCD)/Central Command. Wagambie Junior said the bulk of the 126 reservists were middle-class citizens of various professional backgrounds including lawyers, engineers, accountants and
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POLCE MEDIA APRIL 22 2022 Twenty-two (22) police officers graduated from the Pacific Institute of Leadership and Governance (PILAG) early this month at Waigani in the National Capital District. PILAG is PNG’s oldest public service training institute that has had 402 graduates this year, of which 22 were from the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.
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