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• Papua New Guinea: Epidemics, pandemics (health)

  ’Papua New Guinea is not prepared’: 4,000 nurses to strike over Covid-19 readiness

  30 March 2020, by TOGIBA Lyanne

  Thousands of nurses expected to stop work this week over concerns about lack of personal protective equipment
  Four thousand nurses are expected to participate in strikes across Papua New Guinea this week over concerns that the Pacific nation lacks the medical supplies and funding to handle (...)

• Papua New Guinea

  Botched penis enlargements: Papua New Guinea doctors warn of nationwide problem

  12 April 2019, by LYONS Kate

  One clinic has treated at least 500 men in past two years with penile disfigurement and dysfunction from injections gone wrong.
  Doctors in Papua New Guinea have warned of a “nationwide problem” of men injecting foreign substances, including coconut oil and silicone, into their penises in an (...)

• Papua New Guinea

  Papua New Guinea: Unprecedented violence and fraud ’hijacked’ 2017 PNG election – report

  30 October 2018, by CHANDLER Jo

  Damning analysis of elections found vote was undermined by fraud, violence and intimidation
  Democracy in last year’s Papua New Guinea national election was “hijacked” in many places, with the vote undermined by brazen electoral fraud and unprecedented violence and insecurity, a damning (...)

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  Thousands hold ’Maserati strike’ in PNG amid anger at Apec summit spending

  26 October 2018, by DAVIDSON Helen , LYONS Kate

  Bus drivers and airport staff stay home to protest against government purchase of luxury cars
  Thousands of people have participated in a one-day strike in Papua New Guinea to protest against the purchase of a fleet of Maseratis by the government for next month’s Apec conference.
  The (...)

• Papua New Guinea

  China’s aid to Papua New Guinea threatens Australia’s influence

  2 July 2018, by DOHERTY Ben

  China is increasing its sway with ‘few-strings-attached’ loans while Australia’s aid is seen as paternalistic
  China’s aid spending in Papua New Guinea – with its focus on infrastructure and “few-strings-attached” concessional loans – risks eroding Australia’s influence in the country, with (...)

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  West Papuan refugees in Papua New Guinea: on the way to citizenship?

  16 July 2017, by MUNRO Jenny

  At Rainbow settlement in Port Moresby, 38 families of West Papuan heritage live in a drainage ditch approximately 100 metres wide by 200 metres long. To one side, the neighbours’ retaining wall contains pipes which direct runoff water and rain directly into the settlement. On the other side of (...)

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  Papua New Guinea; Gold company screws locals

  19 June 2009, by FLETCHER Jay

  “Under the influence of your company, the Papua New Guinea government has imposed a virtual state of emergency in Porgera”, Jethro Tulin, from the Atali Tange Association (ATA) of the Porgera Valley in Papua New Guinea, said at the annual general meeting of Barrick Gold in Toronto on April 29. (...)

• Papua New Guinea

  Papua New Guineans Attack Chinese Immigrants

  27 May 2009, by Correspondant(es)

  Thousands of rioters attack Chinese businesses, illegals across the country
  Under the radar of virtually the entire world, a spasm of recent violence against Chinese residents and businesses in Papua New Guinea has caused at least six deaths and strained relations between the small island (...)