Papua New Guinea News

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.

Paralympian Kurt Fearnley has crawled the entire rugged 96km of PNG's iconic Kokoda Track.

Seven Papua New Guineans adrift in the Pacific Ocean for more than two months have been rescued but two have since died, a ship captain says.

Members include the mighty economies of the United States, China and Japan, as well as minnows Brunei and Papua New Guinea.

Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:45 pm Press Release: Pacific.scoop The front page story that angered Papua New Guinea's Pinoy migrant community.

Police are preparing a coronial report following the death of a woman in bushland in the NSW Southern Highlands.

A , B , F , Linda A. Dunn A , B , Tilda Wal C , Sepehr Tabrizi D , Maria G. Delgadillo-Correa E , Patricia J. Johnson E , Suzanne Garland D , Peter Siba C and Peter Upcroft A , B A Queensland Institute of Medical Research, The Bancroft Centre, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, Qld 4006, Australia.

POLICE targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs have seized 65 guns and ammunition from a dealer in the NSW Southern Highlands.