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February 18, 2023
The National in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s new media draft policy would put a stop to reporting news not regarded as “positive” for the country’s image, says former PNG Media Council director Bob Howarth. Howarth, who was director from 2001-2005, said that the national government needed to seriously look at the way the media ... <a title="Learn from Timor-Leste ‘freedom’, says former PNG media council head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/18/learn-from-timor-leste-freedom-says-former-png-media-council-head/" aria-label="Read more about Learn from Timor-Leste ‘freedom’, says former PNG media council head">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2023
PNG Post-Courier The Papua New Guinea government’s top legal adviser, Dr Eric Kwa, has been arrested and charged on allegations of dangerous driving causing death. Dr Kwa, the Secretary for the Department of Justice and Attorney-General, was allegedly involved in a fatal road accident that caused a death on October 17, 2022, and was the ... <a title="PNG government’s top legal adviser charged over ‘dangerous’ road death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/10/png-governments-top-legal-adviser-charged-over-dangerous-road-death/" aria-label="Read more about PNG government’s top legal adviser charged over ‘dangerous’ road death">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2023
PNG Post-Courier PNG Defence Force Commander Major-General Mark Goina says “appropriate force” will be dealt to the gunmen who ambushed and wounded two soldiers in Saugurap, Enga Province, last week. In a statement Major-General Goina said: “A section from the PNGDF contingent deployed in Enga Province were on routine duty, conducting clearance patrol to Laiagam ... <a title="PNG military ‘won’t sit back’ after soldiers ambushed, warns chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/07/png-military-wont-sit-back-after-soldiers-ambushed-warns-chief/" aria-label="Read more about PNG military ‘won’t sit back’ after soldiers ambushed, warns chief">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2023
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby Higher Education Minister Don Polye has condemned a decision by the administration of the University of Papua New Guinea to treat a PNG-born and bred grade 12 school leaver as an “international” student. Roselyn Alog, 19, whose parents are Filipinos, was born and raised in PNG. On Monday, she ... <a title="PNG’s Education Minister slams UPNG ‘discrimination’ against Filipino student" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/04/pngs-education-minister-slams-upng-discrimination-against-filipino-student/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Education Minister slams UPNG ‘discrimination’ against Filipino student">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Service Improvement Programme worth more than K1 billion (NZ$440 million) has become a major cash cow for “irresponsible” leaders, says the monitoring agency. In the past decade, the Provincial and District Services Improvement Programme has delivered much but has not achieved what it set out to deliver — vital government ... <a title="PNG rural agency condemns ‘ghost projects’ in K1 billion delivery cash cow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/29/png-rural-agency-condemns-ghost-projects-in-k1-billion-delivery-cash-cow/" aria-label="Read more about PNG rural agency condemns ‘ghost projects’ in K1 billion delivery cash cow">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in the Pacific. More than 70 years later its rebirth is being driven by a similarly urgent need to counter propaganda, this time from China. Set up within the towering framework ... <a title="Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/speaking-to-the-world-but-mirroring-australias-off-again-on-again-pacific-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2023
PNG Post-Courier There is a new twist in Papua New Guinea’s four-year drama surrounding the Maseratis bought for the 2018 APEC Summit. It has emerged that the Department of Foreign Affairs, which wants to send the luxury vehicles to foreign missions abroad, cannot do so, because the vehicles — which have been collecting dust in ... <a title="PNG’s ‘useless Maseratis’ – now a used car twist to the luxury car saga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/24/pngs-useless-maseratis-now-a-used-car-twist-to-the-luxury-car-saga/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s ‘useless Maseratis’ – now a used car twist to the luxury car saga">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2023
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby An angry tirade on Papua New Guinea and Indonesia border issues in the PNG Parliament yesterday is likely to ignite an international uproar over the alleged behaviour of government officials. During yesterday’s session, Vanimo-Green MP and former soldier Belden Namah, asked why border liaison meetings were always held in ... <a title="Namah blasts PNG government over ‘serious’ Indonesian border issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/18/namah-blasts-png-government-over-serious-indonesian-border-issues/" aria-label="Read more about Namah blasts PNG government over ‘serious’ Indonesian border issues">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea began New Year 2023 with sizzling fireworks that lit up the skies. But our hopes of shrugging off the “power blackout” tag ended just as the year was a few hours old. An hour into New Year celebrations in the capital Port Moresby, like a perennial ... <a title="Sizzling New Year but blackouts continue to hold PNG to ransom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/sizzling-new-year-but-blackouts-continue-to-hold-png-to-ransom/" aria-label="Read more about Sizzling New Year but blackouts continue to hold PNG to ransom">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2023
By Claudia Tally and Maxine Kamus in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s local airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air may be back flying again this weekend. But passengers affected by the “no lift off” were incensed at the cancellations of their flights this week with calls by citizens that this should not happen again when ... <a title="Stranded PNG air travellers angered at government’s lack of intervention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/07/stranded-png-air-travellers-angered-at-governments-lack-of-intervention/" aria-label="Read more about Stranded PNG air travellers angered at government’s lack of intervention">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2023
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby The bodies of Papua New Guinean 31 infants who died between March and July last year at Port Moresby General Hospital were among 127 unclaimed bodies interred in a mass burial yesterday at the 9-Mile public cemetery. The infants had died soon after birth — 0-7 days old — ... <a title="31 infants in mass burial of unclaimed bodies in overcrowded PNG morgue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/06/31-infants-in-mass-burial-of-unclaimed-bodies-in-overcrowded-png-morgue/" aria-label="Read more about 31 infants in mass burial of unclaimed bodies in overcrowded PNG morgue">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2023
RNZ Pacific The Governor of Oro province in Papua New Guinea, Gary Juffa, says Prime Minister James Marape encourages “honest debate” and discussion within his government. The PNG coalition government is made up of 17 parties in an 118-seat Parliament. There are now only nine opposition MPs, after recent switches to government benches. With so ... <a title="Marape government encourages ‘honest debate, dissent’, says Juffa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/03/marape-government-encourages-honest-debate-dissent-says-juffa/" aria-label="Read more about Marape government encourages ‘honest debate, dissent’, says Juffa">Read more</a>
