PNG Gossip Newsletter - 16 Jul 2015

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Neo Melanesian

"Pidgin English"

Tok Pisin English
bugarup doesn't work/broken
haus building / house / hut
haus / long haus home
haus bilong king palace
haus bilong pisin nest
haus bilong tumbuna pasin museum
haus bilong wasim klos laundry
haus kuk / hauskuk / kisen kitchen
haus moni bank
lukim yu bihain see you later
mi no klia gut I don't understand
nogut no good
numbawan pikinini bilong missas Kwin Prince Charles
ofisa officer
pilai play
ples bilong yu we? where are you from?
wantok friend (one talk)
yumi we

Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

       

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Remember that this mailing list is mainly for people who have an interest and already know a little bit about the people and geography of Papua New Guinea. The PNG Kina, which is mentioned from time to time in this newsletter, was recently worth around

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If you are really keen on finding out what the Kina is worth a currency converter for most world currencies can be located at -- http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/moni.html -- The PNG Business Directory also has daily rates based from a PNG perspective

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. They 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

Questions on regional architecture block progress at Pacific foreign ministers meeting -- http://giaman.com/pg/?de64f5

Heritage Oil Fails to Find Gas at Kwila-1 Prospect -- http://giaman.com/pg/?8f596e

Beach Volleyball -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ea7330

Student death by illegal connection -- http://giaman.com/pg/?d91282 (login required)

Lawn Bowls -- http://giaman.com/pg/?b9f5b8

Cook Islands continue medal rush -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4869cc

Pini (PNG) Pursues Grangeon (TAH) For Most Swimming Gold at POM 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?194b79

Big Wins On the Road -- http://allafrica.com/stories/201507140154.html

PM O'Neill Praises Athletes and Public -- http://giaman.com/pg/?4fd2cd





Misc. Links

Police remind motorists to follow traffic rules -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91195

Tribal living in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?98be03

University of Canberra team helping PNG women lift farm profits -- http://giaman.com/pg/?0c0ef1





PNG Images

Seldom seen photos of PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f6850c

National Geographic PNG Photos -- http://giaman.com/pg/?f1ef28

PNG Faces -- http://giaman.com/pg/?ee01e0

Tribes and traditions -- http://giaman.com/pg/?6bc760

PNG Travel Pictures -- http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/gallerypng/pngdoor.html

An Aussie reveals what life is really like in Papua New Guinea -- http://giaman.com/pg/?bf9a96

Gossip Rocks - tribes and traditions -- http://giaman.com/pg/?fe982f


News Items

Kokoda Trek

Former Miss Universe Australia and Cairns girl Erin Holland hikes Kokoda Track with former Miss World Australia Laura Dundovic.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?525afa





Remembrance Day Holiday

Remembrance Day is 23rd of July. PNG Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Papua New Guinea to remember the members of our armed forces who have died on duty in World War I, World War II, and in general peace keeping and law and order engagements within PNG and abroad.

-- https://www.facebook.com/remdaypng





Oral Cancer Increasing

The Health Department's chief of dentistry, Dr Matupi Apaio, the only oral maxillofacial surgeon in the country, said they are seeing at least one case of oral cancer per week - a worrying trend.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91255

Doctor supports betel nut ban -- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91254





Fund Boss To Be Sentenced

The former chairman of the National Provident Fund, Jimmy Maladina, has failed in his bid to have the Supreme Court stay his sentencing later this month.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?f24f1a





Vale Harry West

The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia advises that long time President, Harry West, OAM, has died at the age of 93 years.

Loved and highly respected, Harry steered the PNGAA for 26 years until stepping back from his role as President, which he had held for 16 years, in 2008. In April 2008 he was unanimously voted an honorary life member of the PNGAA for outstanding and meritorious service to the Association, one of only 4 recipients in its 64-year history.

-- http://www.pngaa.net/Library/HarryWestVale.htm





Rugby League 9's Gold

Papua New Guinea won gold at the Port Moresby 2015 rugby league 9's, defeating Samoa 38-10 in a gold medal match performance that underlined the host's superiority throughout the two-day event.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?5cea94





NZ Ejected From Olympic Qualifier

The Oceania Football Confederation disciplinary committee upheld a protest lodged by the Vanuatu Football Federation that claimed South Africa-born defender Deklan Wynne playing for New Zealand was not eligible to play in the match.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?827c58

Report prior to disqualification - New Zealand downs Vanuatu to draw closer to Rio 2016 soccer dream -- http://giaman.com/pg/?836e41





Athletic Records Fall

Many records broken during the athletics programme at the Pacific Games.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?819a0c





Pacific Games Karate

New Caledonia and Fiji shared eight gold medals between them on the opening day of the Port Moresby 2015 karate competition at the Taurama Aquatic and Leisure Centre.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?04597a





ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier Abandoned

Hong Kong's bid for redemption after their disappointing loss to Jersey in their opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 qualifiers did not even get off the ground on Monday. Persistent bad weather and a wet outfield forced the abandonment of their scheduled group A match against Papua New Guinea, without a ball being bowled, in Bready, Northern Ireland.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?d95131

Jersey beaten by PNG -- http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/33499457

PNG hoping to be 'third time lucky' at T20 Qualifier -- http://giaman.com/pg/?a1ab52





Harmony Weighs Up PNG Options

Harmony Gold is assessing how best to extract value from its Golpu copper and gold deposit in PNG. The options around Golpu potentially range from an outright sale to unbundling the asset or separately listing it, with the option of Harmony retaining a stake in Golpu.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?8c84f8





Orchids on Display

There are over 3000 species of orchids found in PNG and many were seen on display at the Sir Rabbie Namaliu Orchid Gardens at Parliament House in Port Moresby recently. The display of orchids has been going for many years.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91193





USNS Mercy Visits Kokopo

A group of Sailors attached to the hospital ship USNS Mercy volunteered their time on the 6th of July to help students and teachers refurbish the Kopopo Secondary School during Pacific Partnership 2015. The volunteer event was one of several community outreach projects that took place in Kokopo during Mercy's port visit.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?06958a

USNS Mercy completes mission in PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?08ef23





Refugee Resettlement

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says PNG is on track to resettle a number of asylum seekers found to be refugees.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?720b8f





Ryan Pini Swimming

Swim King; Ryan Pini, continues his winning streak, raking in seven gold medals since day one of competition, and in the process, breaking two pacific games records.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?619355





Games Anthem Questioned

The modified version of the PNG National Anthem sang at the opening of the Pacific Games in Port Moresby has been declared a violation of the law by former chief justice Sir Arnold Amet.

A whole section of the anthem that acknowledges and gives thanks to the God of the Christian nation of PNG for His Kindness, His Wisdom and Love has been described as absolutely unconscionable.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91186





Managing Deep Sea-Bed Mining

A group of scientists is asking international authorities to temporarily halt the approval of new underwater mining contracts until further environmental controls are put in place.

-- http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/144





Girl Missing in Port Moresby

A sixteen year old girl has gone missing in Port Moresby after attending Pacific Games basketball match at the BSP Stadium in Waigani.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?4fb173





100,000 Meals Served

Over 100,000 meals have been served at the 2015 Pacific Games. In the middle of a lunch-time frenzy at the Athletes' Village on Sunday, the catering manager announced loudly and proudly that staff had just served meal number 100,000 of the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby.

The staff at the village serve an average of 3,000 people at every meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?3eb9de





Sports Shooting

After a hiatus shooting in PNG appears to be gaining some momentum again. The 2015 Pacific Games has helped to gauge the progress of PNG shooters. A least that is the vision of a long-time shooter at the Port Moresby Shooting Club, veteran Air Niugini pilot and member of the PNG men's shotgun team, Daniel Wanma.

Wanma said the Games enabled the Port Moresby Shooting Club to recruit young talent into the club that has been in existence for nearly 40 years, but which had seen little activity in the past 15 years.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?072dd5





Samoans Get One Back On PNG Hosts

Samoa has broken local hearts with a 9-7 victory over Papua New Guinea in the final of the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games mixed touch footy at the Bisini Grounds.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?ee5c99





Women in Business Expo

Local Solomon Island products are being highlighted and displayed by members of the Solomon Islands of Women in Business Association (SIWIBA) in Port Moresby, at the Digicel PNG women in business expo and has attracted a lot of attention.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?398220





Gerehu District Hospital

The Gerehu District Hospital has had to scale down its operation due to many of the staff such as specialists, nurses and health extension officers are manning the clinic at the Games Village.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91270





Australian RL State of Origin

There have been calls to scrap the live broadcast of the Australian Rugby League State of Origin matches in PNG due to the many violent outbursts that are erupting after matches, sometimes resulting in deaths.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?62fb62





By-Elections

Two separate by-elections are set to be run in PNG. One will be in Goilala after its MP, Daniel Mona, died of malaria in February and the other in West Sepik after seat had been vacant for two years. In 2013 the Supreme Court ruled out the 2012 national election victory of Amkat Mai and called for a by-election.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?2b3be4





BSP Takes Over Tongan Bank

Bank South Pacific (BSP) has taken over the operations of the Westpac Bank of Tonga. The Westpac Bank of Tonga employees, who number around 76 in Nuku'alofa and Vava'u, including management, remain with the new bank.

BSP Group employs more than 4000 people across PNG and the South Pacific region.

-- http://giaman.com/pg/?a3fb3c





Games Halfway Report

Games Organising Committee chief executive officer Peter Stewart is both happy and sad with how things are progressing at the halfway mark of the Pacific Games.

-- http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/91271





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.

MV Ammari visiting PNG -- http://giaman.com/pg/?b0355c Ship Locator -- http://ywamships.org.au/ship-locator/

Pacific Games - On until 18 July 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?081f78

Remembrance Day, 23 July 2015

National Day of Repentance, 26 August 2015

PNG Medical Symposium, usually held in September

Pacific Islands Forum meeting will be held in Papua New Guinea in September

Goroka Show, September 2015 -- http://giaman.com/pg/?dad899

PNG Independence Day, 16 September 2015

Morobe Show, October 2015

Alotau Canoe and Kundu Festival, November 2015

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2015

Christmas Day - 25 December 2015

Boxing Day - 26 December 2015

Trade Pasifika - 2016 in Port Moresby

2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup will be the 8th edition of the tournament (Port Moresby) -- http://giaman.com/pg/?18525e

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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