Papua New Guinea News

SALT LAKE CITY, BUSINESS WIRE -- HireVue, the leading provider of global video interviewing solutions, today announced that they have now facilitated video interviews for customers in 105 countries including such locations as Papua New Guinea, Chad, Burkina Faso.

The family of two Australian diggers lost in Papua New Guinea during World War II have finally laid their loved ones to rest.

The remains of four Australian diggers killed in Papua New Guinea during World War II will finally be laid to rest at Port Moresby's Bomana War Cemetery on Tuesday.

Papua New Guinea has criticised the United States's "irresponsible" and "unacceptable" climate change policy at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting .

Saturday, 28 November 2009, 1:21 pm Press Release: Peace Movement Aotearoa Solidarity with West Papua on 1 December 27 November 2009   Kia ora,   Tuesday, 1 December, marks the forty-eighth  anniversary of the West Papuan Declaration of Independence from Dutch colonial rule - sometimes referred to as West Papua Independence Day - and ...

The United States gave a guarded welcome on Friday to China's first firm targets to curb its carbon emissions, saying the world would watch progress by the world's top greenhouse gas emitter.

Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 09:02 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 26, Colombo: Ratnapura District parliamentarian Achala Suranga Jagodage was sworn in today before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees as the new Minister of Tourism.

Papua New Guinea has been selected as the host country for the 2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant while American Samoa and Tonga verbally submitted their interest in hosting the 2012 annual regional pageantry.

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 1:06 pm Press Release: Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs Christmas is traditionally the time of year when Pacific communities across New Zealand send more money back home to their families and friends in the Pacific Islands.

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Australian paralympian Kurt Fearnley has called Jetstar's overhaul of their boarding procedures for disabled flyers "a great start". The budget airline contacted Newcastle-based Mr Fearnley, 28, late yesterday to tell him of the revision, following an embarrassing incident in which he had to crawl around Brisbane Airport on Friday.

Members of a tribe in Papua New Guinea has evolved resistance to a affliction similar to mad cow disease .

Jetstar has apologised to Paralympian Kurt Fearnley after he criticised the airline for making him check his personal wheelchair in with his luggage.

Main Category: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Genetics Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 11:00 PST A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research ...

The Fiji military regime's seizure of broadcast licences is a "very bad signal" for international investment and freedom of speech in the Pacific nation, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.

Research on a "brain-eating tribe" may hold the key to understanding and even treating mad cow disease, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The UNICEF-supported training will produce 15 films, all exactly 60 seconds long, on different aspects concerning children's rights.

A cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribes people were eaten by their relatives has triggered one of the most striking examples of rapid human evolution on record, scientists have discovered.

Activist Ursula Rakova has been leading efforts to relocate the residents from the Cataret Islands in Papua New Guinea, where it is estimated that by 2015 all of the islands will be completely submerged because of climate change.

Half-time at the OneMinutesJr workshop in PNG and today is the big filming day. We have planned to get as much as possible done today and would like to finish six films on this sunny Wednesday in Port Moresby.