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Rimbu returns home to bolster Hunters mid-season campaign

The SP PNG Hunters have confirmed the return of star hooker Judah Rimbu for the remainder of the 2025 Hostplus Cup season. Rimbu, who was last year’s recipient of the prestigious 2024 QRL Petero Civoniceva Medal – awarded to the competition’s best and fairest- returns to the Hunters after a brief stint with English Super […]

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Jimmy Miringtoro declared MP for Central Bougainville

Former MP and independent candidate Jimmy Miringtoro is the MP-elect for Central Bougainville, after the end of counting today in the Central Bougainville Open By-Election. In a statement today, Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai says Mr Miringtoro was declared MP-elect at Tupukas Primary School in Arawa at ten o’clock this morning by the Returning Officer Justine […]

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Castleford Tigers confirm departure of hooker Judah Rimbu by mutual agreement

Castleford Tigers have confirmed the departure of hooker Judah Rimbu following a mutual agreement to release the player from his contract, allowing him to explore new opportunities elsewhere. Rimbu, 23, signed with the Tigers ahead of the 2024 season on a two-year deal from Queensland Cup outfit PNG Hunters. During his time at the Mend-A-Hose […]

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Baru, Beu earn top honors in SP Sports Awards

The 2025 SP Sports Awards was staged last night at the Crown Hotel with winners revealed from the 36 finalists across 12 categories. The top honors went to weightlifting sensation Morea Baru and sprint star Leonnie Beu, who won the Sports Male and Female Athlete of The Year, respectively. Some of the country’s outstanding athletes […]

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Two police officers among five arrested in Port Moresby Meth bust

Two police officers have been arrested following a drug bust at a Port Moresby hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning. They were caught alongside three civilians in possession of methamphetamine, commonly known as meth. Assistant Commissioner of Police and NCD/Central Commander Benjamin Turi confirmed that the Police received a tip-off during their “keeping […]

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Legalise Boards: Madang schools told

All schools in Madang Province, ranging from primary to secondary schools and Technical and Vocational Education [TVET] centers, must have proper boards in place. This was the advice from the province’s Acting Education Director, Alphonse Igag, to all government and agency schools [schools run by churches]. He stressed, “No one person is supposed to be […]

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Highlands Based Mainstream Media personnel trained on usage of Social Media for news content

Mainstream media journalists/reporters based in the Highlands Region underwent a thorough three days training on the usage of social media in their news content. The training is deemed as essential from the traditional method of gathering, packaging news to different traditional mediums like print [newspaper] and broadcast [radio and television]. The training was held in […]

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Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles now available in PNG

Niugini Automobiles and Ela Motors are now the only distributors of Electric Vehicles [EVs] and Hybrid Electric Vehicles [HEVs] in the country. The EVs are distributed by Niugini Automobiles and HEVs by Ela Motors. The difference is EVs are 100 percent electric cars with no engine whilst HEVs have both an internal combustion engine [ICE] […]

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PNG moves to embrace electric vehicles as key step towards 2030 carbon emission goals

Papua New Guinea is looking at transforming its transport sector to a low carbon transportation and climate resilient development to reduce its net emissions by 2030. This by introducing pure electric Vehicles and Hybrid electric vehicles to the Country. However, to have electric Vehicles, PNG must have a policy or framework in place first to […]

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Former MP leads in Central Bougainville by-election

Former two-term MP and state Minister, Jimmy Miringtoro, is in a commanding lead following conclusion of 39 counts of the first-preference votes in the Central Bougainville by-election. Counting of first-preference votes concluded last night with the eight ballot boxes from Wakunai. Panguna District had 13 ballot boxes and Kieta 18 ballot boxes. After count 39 […]