Papua New Guinea
Jeffry Feeger’s paintings are far from the traditional images of Papua New Guinea of the Asaro mud men and the colourful sing songs of the Highlands. He says he is tackling the issues of “a society in transition”.
Just 27 years old, this half German and half Papua New Guinean, whose mother is from PNG’s Gulf region, paints with a passion – with both hands and...
Bougainville was granted autonomy following a bitter civil war in the 1990s. It is now readying for a referendum on independence.
It is difficult to imagine that 20,000 people were killed during the conflict in this laid back province of 220,000 people just north of the Solomon Islands. Pre-secessionist movements already surfaced in Bougainville or, North Solomons province as it was known, in...
The EU closely cooperates with France and the United Kingdom, the only two EU countries with separate aid programmes in PNG; with Australia – the biggest donor to PNG, New Zealand and with multi-lateral agencies. The remoteness of communities, big population growth and a lack of local administrative capacity are all challenges in delivering aid in the country.
France...
Interview with Martin Dihm, EU Ambassador to the European Union in Papua New Guinea Newly-appointed Ambassador of the EU in PNG, German national, Martin Dihm, has previously held senior posts in the EU’s delegations in Barbados and Abuja, Nigeria. From 2001, he was on the trade desk and EPA negotiator for the Pacific and from 2005, Deputy Head of Unit in the EU’s Directorate for Trade...
Formerly a teacher, Australian- born Dame Carol Kidu is PNG’s Minister for Community Affairs and sole female Member of Parliament. She became a naturalised PNG citizen by her marriage to a Papua New Guinean, the late Sir Buri Kidu. She has been revered both at home and internationally for her work with the marginalised in PNG and her contribution to poverty alleviation. In 2005, she was...
Two massive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects to commercialise the gas resources of PNG’s Southern Highlands and Western provinces have opened the floodgates for an unprecedented economic boom seen in the rash of new hotels, supermarkets and entertainment centres in the capital, Port Moresby.
The US$15bn (Kina 42bn) PNG LNG project got the okay from project developers Esso...
Papua New Guinea’s early settlers still live remote lives in the Highlands, yet the country was centre stage during one of the fiercest campaigns of World War II. The country’s past and present are full of paradoxes.
New Guinea was one of the first land masses to be populated by modern humans who are thought to have arrived from Southeast Asia 50,000-70,000 years ago, via the...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) could be described as a mini continent. It is a country of extraordinary diversity both on land and sea from its fauna and fauna to its economic potential: oil, gas, minerals, forests and fish.
Lying just south of the equator, 160km north of Australia, the country is part of a huge arc of mountains stretching from Asia, through Indonesia and into the South Pacific....
The Non-Governmental Organisation, Tulele Peisa, is trying to resettle the estimated 1,000 strong population of the Carteret islands, a horseshoe-shaped cluster of islands to the north-east of Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville. Climate-change induced sea level rises could completely submerge their landmass by 2015.
“If a King Tide occurs people will be swept off...
The presence of the African Union Commission at the G8 Summit in Deauville (26-27 May 2011) underlined the importance of reinforced partnership between the G8 and Africa. Africa is on the move and becomes a new pole of a worldwide growth, in spite of remaining difficulties, notably in the least developed and vulnerable countries. Both sides promised to work jointly during this crucial period of...
Jeffry Feeger’s paintings are far from the traditional images of Papua New Guinea of the Asaro mud men and the colourful sing songs of the Highlands. He says he is tackling the issues of “a society in transition”.
Just 27 years old, this half German and half Papua New Guinean, whose mother is from PNG’s Gulf region, paints with a passion – with both hands and...
Bougainville was granted autonomy following a bitter civil war in the 1990s. It is now readying for a referendum on independence.
It is difficult to imagine that 20,000 people were killed during the conflict in this laid back province of 220,000 people just north of the Solomon Islands. Pre-secessionist movements already surfaced in Bougainville or, North Solomons province as it was known, in...
The EU closely cooperates with France and the United Kingdom, the only two EU countries with separate aid programmes in PNG; with Australia – the biggest donor to PNG, New Zealand and with multi-lateral agencies. The remoteness of communities, big population growth and a lack of local administrative capacity are all challenges in delivering aid in the country.
France...
Interview with Martin Dihm, EU Ambassador to the European Union in Papua New Guinea Newly-appointed Ambassador of the EU in PNG, German national, Martin Dihm, has previously held senior posts in the EU’s delegations in Barbados and Abuja, Nigeria. From 2001, he was on the trade desk and EPA negotiator for the Pacific and from 2005, Deputy Head of Unit in the EU’s Directorate for Trade...
Formerly a teacher, Australian- born Dame Carol Kidu is PNG’s Minister for Community Affairs and sole female Member of Parliament. She became a naturalised PNG citizen by her marriage to a Papua New Guinean, the late Sir Buri Kidu. She has been revered both at home and internationally for her work with the marginalised in PNG and her contribution to poverty alleviation. In 2005, she was...
Two massive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects to commercialise the gas resources of PNG’s Southern Highlands and Western provinces have opened the floodgates for an unprecedented economic boom seen in the rash of new hotels, supermarkets and entertainment centres in the capital, Port Moresby.
The US$15bn (Kina 42bn) PNG LNG project got the okay from project developers Esso...
Papua New Guinea’s early settlers still live remote lives in the Highlands, yet the country was centre stage during one of the fiercest campaigns of World War II. The country’s past and present are full of paradoxes.
New Guinea was one of the first land masses to be populated by modern humans who are thought to have arrived from Southeast Asia 50,000-70,000 years ago, via the...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) could be described as a mini continent. It is a country of extraordinary diversity both on land and sea from its fauna and fauna to its economic potential: oil, gas, minerals, forests and fish.
Lying just south of the equator, 160km north of Australia, the country is part of a huge arc of mountains stretching from Asia, through Indonesia and into the South Pacific....
The Non-Governmental Organisation, Tulele Peisa, is trying to resettle the estimated 1,000 strong population of the Carteret islands, a horseshoe-shaped cluster of islands to the north-east of Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville. Climate-change induced sea level rises could completely submerge their landmass by 2015.
“If a King Tide occurs people will be swept off...
The presence of the African Union Commission at the G8 Summit in Deauville (26-27 May 2011) underlined the importance of reinforced partnership between the G8 and Africa. Africa is on the move and becomes a new pole of a worldwide growth, in spite of remaining difficulties, notably in the least developed and vulnerable countries. Both sides promised to work jointly during this crucial period of...
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