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A social media outburst by passionate rugby league followers in the country has prompted Central Dabaris Rugby League to raise a series of concerns to the Papua New Guinea National Rugby League Competition.

Deliah Gore, a former MP for Sohe District is the only female among fifteen male candidates running for the Sohe seat in the court ordered by-election.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government says it wants to achieve its wish for independence through the Ratification Process outlined in the Bougainville Peace Agreement and the Constitution, but warns, it might detour using other avenues, if the National Government continues to be, what it says, ‘mischievous’ on its part in dealing with the Bougainville Independence agenda.

World Press Freedom Day was commemorated at UPNG today with the theme ‘A Press for the planet; Journalism is the face of environmental crisis’.

National Executive Council has appointed Martin Kombri [picture insert] as the new board chairman for Konebada Petroleum Park Authority [KPPA] and Boe Daera as deputy.

National Superannuation Fund [Nasfund] is the first local investor to sign a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with the Special Economic Zones Authority [SEZA].

Prime Minister James Marape has accepted an invitation of his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, to attend the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting [PALM 10] in Tokyo, Japan, from 16 to 18 July, 2024.

PNG Electoral Commission is rushing against time to update the common roll in-time for the 2024 Local Level Government [LLG] elections, scheduled in July.  

PNG owned taro is now sold in New Zealand.

Moresby South District Hospital will serve the nearly 400, 000 people of the National Capital District Electorate by end of this year.