From across Papua New Guinea
The Wilmar CEO & Chairman, Mr. Khoon Hong Kuok says the price of Papua New Guinea’s chicken is three times the price of Chicken in Malaysia and other Asian Markets. He pointed out that Wilmar International Limited is the largest and most integrated leading agribusiness group in the Asia Pacific Region and it is ranked […]
The date of the visit by the head of the Roman Catholic Church to Papua New Guinea will be confirmed later this month. Pope Francis, PNG visit was penned down in 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on movement globally. Prime Minister James Marape says he is very pleased […]
The Internal Revenue Commission [IRC] has slapped a mining company with a K11. 79 million tax assessment fine for engaging in a tax avoidance scheme. IRC Commissioner General Sam Koim did not name the company in accordance with Section 9 of the Income Tax Act, due to ongoing appeal rights. Mr Koim highlighted several incidences […]
One of the most affected businesses will reopen one of its four supermarkets which were looted and set on fire on black Wednesday in the nation’s capital. City Pharmacy Limited [CPL] which owns the chain of Stop & Shop Supermarkets will reopen its shop in Badili, on Friday. “We are pleased with the progress made […]
Cricket PNG’s selection process to finalise the Garamuts men’s under-19 team has entered its next phase with focus shifted to a 28-player train-on squad. The wider squad will compete in 50-Over matches this weekend as part of its selection process to further trim the team. The selection committee comprised of head of selectors David Bishop, […]
The Minister for International Trade and Investment, Richard Maru and New Zealand Minister for Trade, Todd McClay have agreed for a small Papua New Guinea (PNG) delegation to visit New Zealand in the last week of April to hold high-level trade talks. Minister Maru said the visit to New Zealand in April will be to […]
Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and Comoros have agreed to establish a world association for vanilla-this culminated out of the Trade Ministers meet at the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in the United Arab Emirates. This association was proposed by Madagascar which is currently the world’s leading vanilla producing country with 1 million […]
THE Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) has started the second phase of the nationwide inspection on prices of goods sold at the wholesale and retail shops nationwide starting in the nation’s capital. The Price and Productivity Division of ICCC will spearhead this exercise but it will be specifically on certain goods declared by the […]
The National Parliament has ratified a Defense Cooperation Agreement [DCA] with the Republic of Indonesia, after the last agreement ended a decade ago. In Port Moresby today, Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko presented the DCA ratification documents to Indonesia’s Ambassador to PNG, Andriana Supandy, for the Indonesian Parliament to ratify the agreement, and Prime […]
The SP PNG Hunters home games in Port Moresby will proceed as scheduled for this season according to Queensland Rugby League. Reports by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) last week speculated that QRL board were sought to reach a decision to remove Hunters privileges of hosting homes games at the National Football Stadium, citing security […]