Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 9, 2012, 6:55 pm
ByMALUM NALU Petroleum and Energy Minister William Duma says thereturn of Shell to Papua New Guinea augurs well for the country’s hydrocarbonindustry.Petroleumand Energy Minister William Duma speaking at yesterday’s Shell office openingat Petromin Haus in Port Moresby.-Picture by ROY SANGI of P...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 9, 2012, 6:34 pm
ByMALUM NALU AT least, for onemember of Shell’s senior management team at the opening of the company’s PapuaNew Guinea office at Petromin Haus in Port Moresby yesterday PNG is a placethat he calls “home”.Australian MarcGerrits, Shell’s vice-president exploration – Asia, was born in Angor...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 9, 2012, 6:16 pm
ByMALUM NALU Prime Minister Peter O’Neill yesterday (Thursday)assured investors that Papua New Guinea was an ideal business location, despiteall the bad press of late.O’Neill made the assurance when opening a newrepresentative office for Shell, one of the largest energy and petrochemicalcompani...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 8, 2012, 3:48 am
Minister forAgriculture and Livestock Puka Temu has strongly defended the Central provincerice project, which has been the subject of much controversy lately. He said this inresponse to criticisms in the media that landowners had been left out and notinformed about the project. Sir Puka saidDAL, C...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 8, 2012, 2:54 am
By TAWIC NGALU In the immediate aftermath of the MV RabaulQueens incident, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill saideverything would be done to establish the cause of the accident."We will leave no stone unturned,"he said. "We cannot afford to continue to lose our people's lives. Seatrans...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 8:38 pm
By REG RENAGI  It is with a heavy heart that I write this.  With eachpassing day, the authorities will gradually scale down their search tempo forsurvivors from the ill-fated passenger ship, Rabaul Queen that sank lastThursday morning until it is finally called off by either this weekend or earlyn...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 8:06 pm
Story by GABRIEL LAHOC SEVEN children – aged between 11 months and 15 years – are praying that their mother, who is missing at sea for four days, is alive and well. Jean Rogers Nitia, 38, was a Rabaul passenger who is among the 100-plus still missing when the mv Rabaul Queen sunk in bad weather ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 8:00 pm
By ELLEN TIAMU THE passenger list handed out by the owners of the ill-fated mv Rabaul Queen does not contain the names of the majority of passengers who boarded it from Buka, The National reports. There were only six passengers listed as travelling from Buka, in North Solomons, although survivors co...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 6:06 pm
Authorities warned yesterdya that chances of finding more survivors from the sunken mv Rabaul Queen are slim, The National reports. As they scaled back the search and switched to recovery mode, four more bodies were plucked from Milne Bay and Northern waters. It is now feared that most of the 100-pl...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 9:00 am
By JAMES LARAKI of NARI INDIGENOUSknowledge (IK) can be broadly defined as a set of knowledge that localcommunities may have accumulated and use over generations in any givenenvironment. Thisdefinition could cover all forms of knowledge; technologies, skills, practices,beliefs, and so on that may en...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 6, 2012, 4:06 am
The United Nations (UN) in Papua New Guinea (PNG)is greatly saddened by the loss of life in the recent sinking of the mv Rabaul Queen, and commends the searchand rescue efforts of the authorities.  The UN resident coordinator, David McLachlan-Karr,conveys his deepest condolences on behalf of the UN...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 8:39 pm
By LARRY ANDREW A TOTAL of 238 survivors were rescued by five foreign vessels and transported to Lae in the early hours last Friday including the 54-year-old captain from the Catarets, North Solomons, The National reports. The Provincial Disaster and Emergency Services team together with police, Mor...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 8:35 pm
By ELLEN TIAMU PETER Sharp, owner of Rabaul Shipping Ltd, is expected to be in Lae this week to assist in settling matters relating to the sinking of the mv Rabaul Queen last Thursday, The National reports. The vessel, which sank off the coast of Finschhafen in Morobe province, had passengers from N...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 7:06 pm
JUDGES of the Supreme and National Courts have rallied behind Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia amid persistent moves by the O’Neill-led government to suspend him in relation to allegations of misconduct in office, The National reports. It comes as the national government ignored a stay order, made a...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 6:39 pm
By MALUM NALU Absolute back-to-school mayhem this morning as the2012 education year began.Getting onto a PMV was a nightmare!After much pushing and shoving, my seven-year-olddaughter Moasing and I were able to get on a PMV at Hohola, for her WaiganiChristian School.People, people everywhere and not ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 4:14 am
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 5, 2012, 3:56 am
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 4, 2012, 9:40 pm
By ANCILLA WRAKUALE THE Task Force Sweep team should investigate alleged misappropriation of funds earmarked for three cooperative societies, a cabinet minister said, The National reports. Charles Abel, the Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry has written a letter to the team to carry out inves...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 4, 2012, 8:14 pm
By STARZA PAUL About 170 passengers were rescued late last Thursday in Magarida, Central province, after bad weather forced a ship to abandon its planned trip to Port Moresby, Sunday Chronicle reports today. The ship, Kimbe Queen,  also reported to be a sister ship of Rabaul Queen that sank off Fin...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 4, 2012, 7:30 pm
TheAustralian February 04,2012  THE tragedy of the Papua New Guinea ferry disaster,with the loss of more than 100 lives, has brought home the closeness toAustralia of its neighbours.  Like NewZealanders, with whom we mourned after the Christchurch earthquake, Papuans arepart of the South Pacific f...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 4, 2012, 12:23 am
By MALUM NALU No bodies have yet been recovered from the ill-fatedmv Rabaul Queen as of today, a sourcein Lae told me today (Saturday).He said 246 survivors were brought in to Laeyesterday (Friday), one, a woman, who died while the rest were being cared forat the provincial disaster centre or were u...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 9:46 pm
Statement from Sir Salamo Injia (please click to enlarge)
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 9:28 pm
Deputy Chief Justice Gibbs Salika has been appointed as acting Chief Justice as Sir Salamo Injia was suspended by the National Executive Council this week, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced yesterday. O'Neill told a press conference an investigation would be set up to investigate allegations ag...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 9:14 pm
By MALUM NALU Bythe time you read this, 10 artists from East Sepik province are in Australia toproduce art from the province. The10 artists –three from Abelam and seven from Kwoma -  travelled to Brisbane on Tuesday last week tocreate new work based on the art found in their ceremonial men’s ho...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 3:00 pm
Story and picture by SENIORL ANZUof NARI NgalonzuaFarm at Munum outside Lae is Papua New Guinea’s largest guava farm with over 4,000 trees  grown by woman farmer Edith Babul. She supplies major supermarkets and schools in Lae with herweekly harvests of Indian guava , some of which are as big as y...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 9:00 am
By ELIZABETHVUVU AusAID’sAgriculture and Innovation Grant Scheme (AIGS) continues to play a major rolein developing agriculture and agricultural methods in Papua New Guinea, The National reports.Thescheme, which has changed the livelihoods of many rural Papua New Guineans, isonce again in the fore...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 3, 2012, 3:16 am
By ISAAC NICHOLAS THE O’Neill-led government tried for the second time yesterday to suspend Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia – and failed, The National reports. Like the November attempt to remove Sir Salamo, the court issued orders to stay the National Executive Council decision until further not...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 8:39 pm
By ALLAN PATIENCE in Sydney Morning Herald  February 3, 2012Opinion Sir Michael Somare. Photo: AFP The cult of Sir Michael has been disastrous for hispeople. THE primary cause of the recent ''mutiny'' bysections of the Papua New Guinea defence force is a mix of soldiers' anger overlow pay, their s...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 8:13 pm
By JUNIOR UKAHA A SENIOR public servant is facing charges relating to the illegal use of K1.767 million belonging to the Health Department, The National reports. Christian Tarur, manager of the Badili area medical store, was on Monday arrested by Task Force Sweep. Task Force chairman Sam Koim said ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 8:07 pm
By ELLEN TIAMU RELATIVES of passengers who were board the mv Rabaul Queen were yesterday turned away from the Rabaul Shipping office in Lae with the company refusing to answer any queries and closed their doors, The National reports. Irate relatives who waited all day for news on the tragedy, wantin...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
By ELLEN TIAMU OFFICIALS last night confirmed that 238 passengers have been rescued from waters off the coast of Finschhafen, Morobe province, where the mv Rabaul Queen sank early yesterday morning, The National reports. It is not known how many were missing from the 300-passenger coastal vessel whi...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 7:53 pm
RESCUERS have plucked more than 230 people out of the sea but many more remain missing after a ferry sank yesterday morning in waters off Finschhafen, Morobe province, The National reports.Eight foreign vessels and a number of aircraft scoured the search area (6 degrees 31.5 minutes south, 147 degre...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 2, 2012, 1:40 am
Update from Finschhafen: James Krimbu, a health worker at Braun Rural Hospital in Finschhafen, Morobe province, told me from Finschhafen that the area had been experiencing very rough seas and strong winds, which was hampering rescue efforts. “At the moment, there are rough seas and strong winds ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 1, 2012, 11:11 pm
By ALAN MCLAYPresidentLae Chamber of Commerce and Industry Our information is that the ship went down at about 6 am this morning. There are extremely high winds and the sea is very rough. The local villagers are very hesitant in venturing out to sea to assist the rescue in fear for their own lives (...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Feb 1, 2012, 10:45 pm
Passenger vessel mv Rabaul Queen has sunk with more than 300 passengers on board in waters off Finschhafen, Morobe province. It is confirmed that the ship went down approximately 20 nautical miles north east of Finschhafen (6° 10 south 148° 08 east) 300 plus on board.  "There are four vessels an...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 31, 2012, 7:51 pm
By ISAAC NICHOLAS MEMBER for Madang Goli Buka Malai has distanced himself from the alleged misappropriation of K4.3 million at the Department of National Planning, The National reports. Malai denied any involvement in or knowledge of the alleged swindling of funds involving an executive officer – ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 31, 2012, 7:44 pm
By ISAAC NICHOLAS THE government has set aside K10 million to provide relief assistance for those affected by the massive landslide in Souther Highlands province, The National reports. The funds will be immediately released into the care of the Esso Highlands and the national disaster and emergency ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 31, 2012, 7:37 pm
By ANGELINE KARIUS BOTCHED mutiny leader Yaura Sasa has been released from remand custody on a K2,500 bail, The National reports. Sasa, a retrenched PNG Defence Force officer, was charged with inciting mutiny and locked up at the Bomana jail last Sunday. He and his band of about 30 renegade soldiers...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 31, 2012, 7:32 pm
SIR Michael Somare and his politician son Arthur Somare have offered themselves to be arrested – if police have any criminal evidence against them, The National reports. Both father and son, caught in a seemingly immoveable political tug-of-war with Peter O’Neill over which side has legitimate g...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 10:22 pm
By ALEXANDER DOWNER I was in New York to brief the United Nations Security Council last week when I saw the ugly scenes from Canberra of our Prime Minister and Opposition Leader being bundled out of a restaurant by security officers protecting them from protesters. This incident made news right arou...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 9:39 pm
Rumours that Arthur Somare has been arrested with all the action taking place at police headquarters now. Trying to get more information from my contacts. Timothy Bonga and Andrew Kumbakor claimed on the midday NBC news that they had been harassed by police since their press conference on Sunday. ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 8:18 pm
THE substantive hearing on the deportation case of Graham Leslie Osborne currently challenged in the National Court will be heard next Thursday, The National reports. Judge George Manuhu presiding over the case yesterday ruled that the substantive and interim court order hearing be adjourned to Feb ...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 8:06 pm
By JUNIOR UKAHA EMPLOYEES of the Customs Service are confused over the existence of two commissioners in the organisation since Oct 27 last year, The National reports. The confusion stemmed from a National Gazette (No.G381), purportedly issued by Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio on Dec 29, recogni...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 7:57 pm
By JAYNE SAFIHAO THE executive officer to the Madang MP Buka Malai has been arrested and detained for allegedly swindling K4.25 million from the National Planning office, The National reports. Detectives who are part of the Task Force Sweep team in Madang said Zebedee Jabri Kalup, from Siar village...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 30, 2012, 7:48 pm
By REG RENAGI I predict that by next month, we will have a new Parliamentary Opposition Leader in the only woman MP we have in parliament, Dame Carol Kidu. This is her statement on the last 72 hours of recent events in Port Moresby: "That's the problem of being the only woman in PNG politics - yo...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 29, 2012, 3:57 am
By REIMUND STRAUSS Dear Mr Nalu, as we’ve gone finish“ 1998, it takes its time until news from PNG reachus.  Butthey still do! Today I read your article “End of an era in Lae”, about the latePaul Menzel, published in The National on Friday, November 25, 2011.The sad news touches me very mu...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 29, 2012, 3:23 am
Colonel Yaura Sasa has been refused bail by the Waigani committal court and will spend tonight behind bars. However, "Defence Minister" in the Somare regime, Andrew Kumbakor, told a news conference that Sasa was entitled to bail and he would push for that tonight. Kumbakor claimed that soldiers at T...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 29, 2012, 2:51 am
By WILL MUSKENSDear Malum, An acquaintance who does missionary work in PNG recently sent me your articlepublished in The National on August 5,  2011 about your reminiscenses of Gorokain the old days. As an educational textbook seller I had given her some boxesof learning guides that she felt could...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 28, 2012, 11:28 pm
By ISAAC NICHOLAS PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill, shaken by last Thursday's mutiny by rebel troops, will move to dissolve parliament next month and go to early polls to end the current political impasse, The National reported last Friday. He said he would seek his government’s blessing to bring fo...
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Malum N. posted an article on Malum Nalu - Jan 28, 2012, 11:02 pm
Heard from Lae that PNG Party had a very interesting breakfast this morning. Rumour is that they've already instructed the Central Bank to remove Somare's face from the next batch of K50 notes.
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