From across Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea’s Sharon Toako retained her Pacific Games women’s javelin crown at Honiara’s National Stadium on Thursday. Toako’s throw of 45.49 metres was enough to secure victory, ahead of New Caledonia’s Lesly Filituulaga, whose best throw landed at 41.98m. Toako, who also won gold at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games with a throw of […]
Recently elected member for North Bougainville Francesca Semoso has used her first appearance in Parliament to ask for female MPs to be given preference to speak before their male colleagues. Ms Semoso is the first female representative from North Bougainville to serve in the national Parliament. She joins Central Province Governor Rufina Peter, and Rai […]
The central bank’s announcement that it will cease the use of commercial bank cheques by December 22 is a huge concern for the Governor of East Sepik Province. Allan Bird fears the six-year-old cocoa project in his province, which he says has generated millions and seen huge benefits trickling down to ordinary villagers, could potentially […]
The hopes of the PNG men’s basketball team for the Pacific Games qualifiers have been shattered. In a very close determining final pool match on Wednesday afternoon against New Caledonia, PNG went down, 75-85. Four minutes into the third quarter the teams tied 50-50. The close match continued into the final quarter, but the New […]
The PNG men’s volleyball team caused a major upset on Wednesday afternoon, crushing the reigning champions of the 2019 Pacific Games. Bringing down the might of the 2019 volleyball gold medallists in an entertaining contest, PNG defeated Tahiti 3 sets to 2. The men won all their four pool matches and step into the next […]
Sixty- nine rural aid posts in Madang Province remain closed because of lack of medical supplies. Another fifteen health clinics are yet to receive their supplies for the final quarter of this year. A senior health official in Madang says the aid posts are in three most difficult districts of Raikos, Middle Ramu and Usino-Bundi. […]
Officials are working to deliver aid and supplies to 13,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes because of the Mt Ulawun eruption. Thousands of people from communities near the volcano are now living in care centres and in dire need of fresh clean water and food. On Tuesday night the evacuees were […]
PNG’s men’s basketball team have the Pacific Games qualifying finals in sight after securing two wins and one loss. PNG take on New Caledonia in their final pool match at 1:30pm PNG time today (Wednesday). They missed out on medals at the last games and the pressure will be on them to improve. In their […]
Papua New Guinea’s men’s volleyball team remains undefeated after three matches at the Pacific Games, after a 3-0 win over Fiji on Tuesday evening. However, PNG women’s volleyball team went down to American Samoa in straight sets. The height advantages of the Fijians did not scare the Papua New Guineans at the 17th edition of […]
A senior Chinese official says his country’s growing ties with Pacific countries including Papua New Guinea are about driving prosperity for “one blue Pacific community”. Zhao Hongtao, deputy director of North America, Oceania and European affairs in the international department of China’s Central Committee, said China’s growing interest in the region had nothing to do […]