Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'Papua-New-Guinea' (7)

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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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RADIO AUSTRALIA PACIFIC BEAT Updated October 6, 2011 18:01:27

With warnings about unsustainable numbers of people on low lying atolls and the possibility of having to resettle them elsewhere, is there anything to be learned from a resettlement scheme which is already happening in the Pacific? The Carteret islands north of the Papua New Guinea Island of Bougnainville are atolls which are sinking slowly. There's a plan to resettle many of the 2,700 inhabitants on the mainland…

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RADIO NZ INTERNATIONAL Posted at 07:38 on 26 November, 2009 UTC



Police involved in an eight-nation, 10-day fisheries operation have boarded about 30 vessels but made no arrests.



Operation Bigeye this year’s covered almost just over three million two hundred square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean, using police from Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and Papua… Continue

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Posted at 18:53 on 30 November, 2009 UTC



The region is marking World AIDS Day today with a range of different activities to educate the public about the virus.



This year’s World AIDS day theme is campaigning for free universal testing and treatment worldwide.



Papua New Guinea will have a media campaign, will distribute brochures and will broadcast an… Continue

Helene Hofman - RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS Last Updated: 3 hours 15 minutes ago

Of 100 temporary employment visas offered by Australia to workers from Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu last year, just 56 were filled. [ABC]



Australia's Pacific seasonal workers scheme may be struggling to get off the ground, two years in a… Continue

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