PNG Gossip Newsletter - 6 Oct 2013

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Neo Melanesian

"Pidgin English"

Tok Pisin English
autim cross out / speak out / divulge / withdraw
banis fence / ribs / wall
buk book
dia expensive
diwai tree / wood (timber)
gumi inner tube
gut / gutpela good
hat cap / hat
kago cargo / goods
kaikai food
klostu almost
wanpela man no meri somebody
wiken weekend
wokim glas i go antap wind up a window
wokman worker / workman
yu mekim wanem? what are you doing?

Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

       

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Want to find out more about Papua New Guinea? Try searching at -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo -- and -- http://www.michie.net/png_faqs or try the PNG Business Directory located at -- http://www.pngbd.com -- and the PNG Tourism Directory -- http://www.pngtd.com. Both are excellent places to look for information about the country.
For those who are not so familiar with the geography of Papua New Guinea I suggest taking a look at -- http://maps.google.com -- and then clicking on the "+" to zoom in to the area of interest. Go to the following link for a quick start to a map of Port Moresby. -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/pom-map.html

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PNG News Links

NCD short of cemetery space -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=79522

Port Moresby hospital to conduct further mass burial -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=79442

Call in Port Moresby for people to claim dead relatives -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=79448

PNG Sustainable Development Program fails court bid -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f4300c

PNG authorities urged to publish monthly bulletins on claimed bodies -- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=79557

Innovative mobile phone project monitors understanding of HIV AIDS messages in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8e0694

PNG bilateral partners threat PNG Defence Force: Commander Agwi -- http://giaman.com/pg/?da7790

Aussie PM's XIII beat PNG 50-10 in league match -- http://giaman.com/pg/?253834

Adventist Charity Arm Thanked Teachers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?9719aa

 





Misc. Links

Paradise Cinema, Port Moresby -- http://www.paradisecinemapng.com

PNG High Commission UK -- http://pnghighcomlondon.weebly.com/index.html

Balus - Papua New Guinea Aviation -- https://www.facebook.com/PNGBalus

Helifix Helicopters -- http://www.helifix.com.pg

Absence of voluntary expatriates creates vacuums -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/57174

Overview of Peace Building Fund support to PNG -- http://www.unpbf.org/countries/png

Father, daughter trek PNG jungle to flesh out family war link -- http://giaman.com/pg/?1babff

Baby scales given a second life in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?d39869





PNG Images

-- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/papua-new-guinea/images

-- http://www.pngbd.com/photos

-- http://wildpng.com/img/Gallery/PapuaNewGuineaPhotoGallery.php

New road ends isolation for PNG town -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f421eb

Healing Seekers: PNG, Crocodile People, Sago, and Betel Nut -- http://giaman.com/pg/?3a1061

New Domestic Apron for Jacksons -- http://giaman.com/pg/?090102

Adventist Charity Arm Thanked Teachers -- http://giaman.com/pg/?9719aa





PNG Blogs

Kundiawa town is sitting on a fiery time bomb -- http://giaman.com/pg/?dd6d62

Federation backs Ok Tedi mine takeover -- http://giaman.com/pg/?534248

Bringing Mr Pip to life -- http://ramumine.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/bringing-mr-pip-to-life

The Insatiable Nautilus -- http://ramumine.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/the-insatiable-nautilus-2

West Papuan Asylum Seekers Deported to PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?08664a


News Items

PX Towers

Work has begun on an eight-storey, 60-room residential apartment building at Jackson's Airport for Air Niugini staff. The project is expected to reduce Air Niugini's outlay on accommodation costs of more than K3 million. The new building will be built next to the company's head office and will be constructed by Matrix Constructions PNG. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2015.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130930/news09.htm





New PX Boeing

Air Niugini has taken delivery of a new Boeing 737 800 Next Gen. Reg P2-PXE S/n 33024. This is Air Niugini's 3rd Boeing 737. With the arrival of P2-PXE, the airline now has the flexibility to operate six weekly flights to the Philippines with two and four flights to Cebu and Manila respectively. The plane was officially welcomed to the fleet on the 1st of October 2013.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?6124f3





Black Cat Suspects Charged

Six men, five from Bitoi and one from Salamaua, have been charged with three counts of wilful murder, numerous counts of attempted murder, grievous body harm and armed robbery after a recent attack along the Black Cat Track. The youngest of the suspects is a 19-year-old and the oldest is about 27 years of age.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130930/news05.htm

Black Cat murder accused appear in PNG court -- http://giaman.com/pg/?816951

Three Brisbane men will be among the first trekkers back on the Black Cat Trail after the massacre -- http://giaman.com/pg/?93eef2





Online Visa System

After years of complaints, a new online visa system has been launched for Papua New Guineans seeking temporary business or tourism travel to Australia. The online visa will not allow business travellers to work in Australia, but permits activities such as attending conferences, negotiations and exploratory business visits.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?f9ee3e





PNG Tourism Gold

The Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority's (TPA) recently won Gold at the Pacific Asia Travel Association 2013 Gold Awards, in China. TPA Chief Executive Officer, Peter Vincent, says the gold awards were a boost for the organization, which receives limited government funding, for marketing and promoting PNG abroad.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5ba819





GDP Growth

In September 2013 the estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) growth was lowered by the Bank of Papua New Guinea to around 5 per cent from the Peter O'Neill government estimate of 6.1 per cent.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130930/news01.htm





Fraudulent Medicine

The extent of fraudulent pharmaceuticals in the Melanesian islands is unknown, but the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported that 47 per cent of anti-malarial medicines tested more widely in the South East Asian region are fake.

In PNG a 2011 study of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines by Goethe University in Germany and the University of PNG found that all 14 samples of the antibiotic amoxicillin and anti-malarial drug amodiaquine taken from five registered pharmacies in the capital Port Moresby were defective.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a3fa4f





Web Hosting

Interested in having your own Web Site? Worried about the cost? It may be cheaper than you think. Take a look at pricing at the PNG Web Hosting site -- http://pngwebhost.com. Sites with space for unlimited data storage and data transfer per month start from less than US$5.00 per month. -- DOT COM Domains from US$9.00 per year. All plans come with 24 hour a day / 7 day a week ticket (email) / phone support.





NCD Betel Nut Ban

A ban on the sale of betel nut (buai) has come into force in Port Moresby but locals are defying the prohibition saying it will affect business. Despite the opposition to the prohibition, National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop said betel nut chewing was a filthy, unhealthy habit with the ban to remain in place.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?3d1c35

Betel nut sellers in Port Moresby say they'll defy sale ban -- http://giaman.com/pg/?83b1dc

Ban on betel nut gets backing -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/57195

No more chewing at police headquarters, Kulunga warns -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/57259





IMR Madang

The PNG Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR) had hoped to have its new offices in Madang funded by the PNG Sustainable Development Program's shareholding in OK Tedi but now that the government has taken control of the mine this could all be up in the air.

PNGIMR's Madang branch carries out the bulk of the Institute's vector-borne disease research including world-class research on malaria, one of PNG's leading causes of morbidity and mortality.

-- http://www.pngsdp.com
-- http://www.pngimr.org.pg/About%20us/aboutus.htm

All-national staff at PNGIMR -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20131004/news08.htm





12-Million-year-old Fossil

Palaeontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever found in the Indo-Pacific region. The 12-million-year-old fossils - vertebrae and ribs - were discovered in the Selminum Tem cave in the Hindenburg Range of Western province, more than 30 years ago, but remained unstudied.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?c470ef





Helifix PNG

Helifix has secured a contract with ExxonMobil to have a fixed wing aircraft observe the gas pipeline in the LNG project. The company will provide a Cessna Grand Caravan to carry three passengers including the pilot to observe the 420-kilometre gas pipeline from the LNG site to Omati in Gulf province.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130927/business01.htm





PNG LNG Freight

In one of its biggest-ever air logistics projects, Volga-Dnepr Airlines completed 88 cargo flights carrying more than 6,000 tonnes of equipment to supply the ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG Project.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?908aa5





Village House Fire

A fire has gutted a home at Mata village, near the Highlands Highway in Sinasina-Yongumugl district, Chimbu. One boy died in the fire and two were severely burnt. It is believed the fire started from a lit candle after the electricity supply to the house was disconnected.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/57197





Madang

Madang Governor Jim Kas has begun the reclamation of provincial government-owned land on the outskirts of the town my driving a bulldozer through squatter huts which had sprung up in the area.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?da2516

Madang governor denies personally bulldozing squatter settlement -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f4f18f





Lae-Nadzab Super Highway

A four-lane highway between Lae city and Nadzab has been estimated to cost K800 million. The first 8 kilometre stretch between Bugandi roundabout, in Lae, and the Wau Road Junction is estimated to cost K285 million.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/57175





Atolls Food Crisis

Tasman Islanders are facing a severe shortage of food due to the lack of regular shipping services around Bougainville. All the canteens on the island have run out of basic goods like rice and biscuits.

-- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20131004/news13.htm





Deep Sea Mining

The controversial deep sea mine - Solwara 1 - to be operated by Nautilus Minerals looks it will go ahead after an international arbitrator had ruled in favour of the mine, and compelled the PNG government to keep to its end of a joint-venture agreement. The arbitration was conducted in Sydney, Australia, under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law's arbitration rules.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a03f1e





Beautiful Tufi

Beautiful Tufi is a colourful coffee table book about the people, culture and life at Tufi in the Oro province of PNG. The book paints a picture of the peoples' daily tasks, special occasions, their surroundings and history, and how they combine their old traditions and ways with adaptations and preparations for the future.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?12323a





Reading Crisis

A former education secretary in Papua New Guinea, Dr Joseph Pagelio, says the country is facing a reading crisis.

-- http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=79582





PNG Mine Workers Overseas

The slowing of Australia's mining boom has led to big job losses but it seems Papua New Guineans working in Australia are defying the trend and holding on to their jobs.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8fa012





Security Firm Standoff

A stand-off between Guards from two-security firms in Lae caused disruption to traffic on Friday (4 Oct) at Lae's top town police station. Both security companies have since resumed business and they assured the general public and business houses that the problem won't affect operations and matters are being resolved.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?0166e5





Banning Other Faiths?

Fr. Giorgio Licini PIME - PNG/SI Catholic Bishops Conference says banning other faiths is not only against the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations but also discriminates among citizens on a ground that should never be reason for discrimination: personal faith.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?4b6f50





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.

Air Niugini 40 Year Anniversary Staff Reunion, Brisbane - 2nd November 2013. Details and bookings available through this website. -- http://www.angreunion.co.nr

National Canoe & Kundu Festival -- November 2013

ICC tournament, Dubai -- November 2013

Christmas Day - 25th December 2013

Boxing Day - 26th December 2013

New Year's Day -- 1st January 2014

Full Pacific Games - PNG 4th July to 18th July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78

5th Melanesian Festival of Arts - July 2014 -- http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20130322/news05.htm

Pacific Mini Games - Vanuatu 2017

2018 - APEC summit to be held in Port Moresby.

Do you have an event that you want advertised? - Use the submission form located at -- http://www.pnggossip.com/misc/ctc.html




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