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| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea cricket team are in Canberra today to take on a team representing the Australian Capital Territory, as the curtain raiser for the match between the Australian Prime Minister's XI and the touring Sri Lankan team.
Topics: cricket, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Papua New Guineans are in mourning after the shock death of a revered former Miss PNG winner and beloved community figure (Video: Dion Kombeng and Jimmy Segodi).
Topics: death, papua-new-guinea
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Contractors arrive on Manus Island to begin interviews with refugees about resettlement in the United States.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedPapua New Guineans are in mourning after the shock death of a revered former Miss PNG winner and beloved community figure just before her 25th birthday.
Topics: death, police, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedHundreds of people attended a vigil last night in Port Moresby to pay their respects to Ruby Laufa.
Topics: people, grief, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Royal New Zealand Air Force has flown more than a tonne of books to Papua New Guinea for disadvantaged children.
Topics: community-and-society, community-education, pacific, papua-new-guinea, new-zealand
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| UpdatedThe chairman of the recently-formed Football Federation Papua New Guinea, John Kapi Natto, is pressing ahead with plans for a new national soccer league, with the backing of a dozen association presidents around the country.
Topics: soccer, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe PNG Lewas have suffered another huge defeat in their final match at the Women's Cricket World Cup qualifying tournament in Sri Lanka, losing to South Africa by ten wickets.
Topics: cricket, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedAsylum seekers at Australia's offshore detention centre on Manus Island are begging for help as Papua New Guinean and Australian authorities prepare to deport them.
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, australia, papua-new-guinea
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With the Chinese Government lending the PNG Government hundreds of millions of dollars for major infrastructure projects, Australia's defence and diplomatic community express unease about China's growing influence on the country.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, china, australia
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Iranian refugee Loghman Sawari is being moved from his Port Moresby police cell ahead of his bail application.
Topics: courts-and-trials, refugees, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's opposition leader says the people evicted from part of Port Moresby's Morata settlement back in November and December still have not been resettled or received any compensation.
Topics: housing, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThere are calls for better rules to govern the treatment of local porters and guides along the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: tourism, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A 20-year-old Iranian refugee who is being treated for dehydration and mental illness in Papua New Guinea is told he cannot receive treatment until his bail application is heard.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, mental-health, health, papua-new-guinea, fiji, iran-islamic-republic-of
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Havala Laula, the last of the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" who helped allies survive PNG's punishing jungles during World War II, wears his slouch hat with pride as he and Australian Kokoda Track veteran exchange stories and thanks.
Topics: world-war-2, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedDetainees at Australia's immigration centre on Manus Island say authorities there have begun removing asylum-seekers from the island so they can be deported.
Topics: immigration, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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The Red Cross provides assistance to hundreds of families displaced by tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea's volatile highlands region.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, territorial-disputes, indigenous-other-peoples, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea opposition leader is calling on the Prime Minister to resign over the Manumanu land scandal.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedHundreds of families displaced by tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea's volatile highlands region have been given help to rebuild their shattered lives.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, domestic-violence, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe CEO of Port Moresby General Hospital says reports of a blood shortage are incorrect.
Topics: blood, health, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedImmigration authorities in Papua New Guinea are trying to deport asylum seekers from Australia's offshore detention centre on Manus Island, the men's lawyer says.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, australia
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| UpdatedThere's been a call for a radical change to the way resource projects are developed on traditional lands in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: land-clearing, government-and-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe PNG Lewas have two days to regroup at the Women's Cricket World Cup qualifying tournament in Sri Lanka, after losing their opening pool match to Bangladesh by 118 runs.
Topics: cricket, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Fourteen prisoners remain on the run in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands after a breakout last week.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
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An Iranian refugee who fled Australia's offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea is being treated in hospital while he awaits court.
Topics: refugees, law-crime-and-justice, international-law, foreign-affairs, papua-new-guinea, australia