Positive PNG name squad to face Samoa
Kumuls celebrate a try in the game againts France. Getty ImagesRay Thompson is relishing the experience of his first ever World Cup for Papua New Guinea and after a narrow loss to France in their...
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Australian Federal Police arrive in PNG. Photo EMTVThe first batch of 50 Australian Federal Police arrived today in Port Moresby.A rousing welcome was hosted by the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary...
View ArticleEight People buried alive
8 people buried alive. Nationalpic EIGHT people are believed buried under a massive landslide that hit the Kenagi section of the Highlands Highway in Eastern Highlands on Saturday night.The body of a...
View ArticleGovernor Juffa: ORO wants to fill more then 200 vacancies for teachers
Oro Governor wants to fill teaching vacancies . Photo: Gary JuffaOro Provincial Government is keen on filling more then 200 teaching vacancies in schools throughout the Province. The Governor has given...
View ArticleKumuls go down to Kiwis
Sonny Bill Williams in action against PNG. Photo. 2013RLWCRugby League World Cup holders New Zealand powered past Papua New Guinea 56-6 to march into the quarter finals.A first half hat-trick by Sonny...
View ArticlePNG loosing Millions of Kina through Corruption
PNG has lost about K1.4 billion this year through corrupt practices, the Task Force Sweep team says.It said since 2007, the Government had allocated K19 billion for development projects. The Task Force...
View ArticleHand grenade attack in PNG
POLICE are investigating a reported mass killing in a remote highlands area in which 34 people died and 28 others seriously injured.Reports from Sugu Valley, in Kagua-Erave district, Southern...
View ArticleOne shot dead as Criminals and Police exchange fire in Mt Hagen
Police and Criminals exchange fire. One deadBY PEARSON KOLO IT was like a scene in a movie when Police and criminals exchanged shots at the heart of Mt Hagen City yesterday morning. One criminal who...
View ArticleInsurance boss charged
ACTING Insurance Commissioner Salamo Elema has been charged with official corruption and abuse of office, police say.Elema was charged by police in the National Capital District on Wednesday with one...
View ArticleA Police sergeant charged for wilful murder of student
A POLICE sergeant has been charged with the wilful murder of 21-year-old student Dickson Paru Aku in Alotau in March after police opened fire following an attempted robbery.Police in the National...
View ArticlePNG's Agmark Gurias to play Canterbury Bulldogs in a trial match
THE Kokopo Gurias have locked in a trial match against the Canterbury Bulldogs early next year as part of their preparations for the 2014 Digicel Cup.The game expected to feature at least six Bulldogs...
View ArticleHOW CAN RUGBY LEAGUE BE PNG's NATIONAL GAME?
By Reginald RenagiWell is rugby league our national game or not? It depends very much on who you ask. The response can be an interesting one.Nevertheless, today many Papua New Guineans feel very...
View ArticlePNG to hand down K14 billion 2014 budget
TREASURY Minister Don Polye is expected to hand down a K14 billion 2014 Budget in Parliament today.The budget will cater for the deficit, which has now blown out to between K3.5 billion and K4...
View ArticleNEC creates new departments
THE National Executive Council has agreed to amalgamate or abolish the following departments and agencies:Amalgamate the Personnel Management Department and the Public Service Commission;amalgamate the...
View ArticleWorld Economic leaders praise PNG’s budget
PAPUA New Guinea’s 2014 budget, handed down this week, was the centre of talks in a world-renowned economic meeting held in Vanuatu this week.World and Pacific economic leaders who met in Vanuatu...
View ArticleMen enter home, steal, rape girl
A HOUSE was broken into, properties stolen and a teenager raped in Port Moresby last Saturday.A statement from Deputy Commissioner of Police Simon Kauba’s office said five masked men broke into a...
View ArticleVillagers pack-rape school girl
THIRTY-two houses were razed and a primary schoolgirl was pack-raped last week as a result of two feuding villages on the west coast of Wewak.Wewak police station commander, Chief Insp Sakawar Kasieng...
View ArticleICAC BILL TABLED
PNG PM Peter O'neill tabled ICAC BillPrime Minister Peter O'Neill presented the Bill to amend the Constitution to establish the Independent Commission Against Corruption, or I-C-A-C.The Bill also sets...
View ArticlePNG Parliament pass Budget
PARLIAMENT has overwhelmingly passed the K15 billion national budget in its final sitting for the year, drowning out any opposition to it.It was passed at 7.15pm last night straight after Opposition...
View ArticleThree killed in plane crash in PNG, investigation on
THREE persons missing when a Cessna Grand Caravan crash-landed on a river at Kibeni in Gulf province on Monday afternoon have been confirmed dead.Tropicair Ltd, which operated the flight, identified...
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