Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'PNG' (7)

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat - Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:18 +1000

Nauru has become the first Pacific nation to formalise the seasonal worker scheme with Australia which comes in to effect next month.

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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated December 21, 2011 09:44:05

A program which allows people from the Pacific to work for a limited period mainly in Australia's horticultural industry is to be expanded.



A three-year test scheme will enable people to work in the tourism, cane and cotton industries.



The original two-thousand-and-eight program allowed up to two-and-a-half thousand workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and…

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Updated October 13, 2011 21:47:38

Police say five scientists with Papua New Guinea's Institute of Medical Research, who went missing in August this year may have been kidnapped by pirates.



They were on a research on malaria related diseases in Kimbe in PNG's West New Britain province when they were reported missing.



Provincial Police Commander, Anthon Billy says they may have been kidnapped by…

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ABC RADIO PACIFIC BEAT Updated December 7, 2010 17:53:14

Free public access computers for children could soon be coming to the Pacific.

India's Hole In The Wall company is expecting final approval from the Ministry of External affairs early next year.

That will see free computer 'learning stations' installed in Fiji, PNG, Nauru, Kiribati and Vanuatu.

The project began as an experiment a decade ago ... placing a single computer in the wall of a New Delhi slum, then…

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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Wed Sep 9, 2009 7:10am AEST



Scientists working in Papua New Guinea have discovered a new species of giant rat. It weighs more than a kilo and is nearly a metre long, making it one of the biggest-known species of rat in the world. The rodents were among several new animals discovered in the centre of PNG's Mount Bosavi, an extinct volcano in the southern… Continue

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Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:15pm AEDT



Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Bougainville region plans to resettle some 1400 people from the Carteret Islands to the mainland starting this year.



The islanders are facing food shortages as their island is sinking.



presenter: Firmin Nanol

speakers: Martin Mose, director of PNG's National Disaster Centre; Patrick Koles,… Continue