via Radio New Zealand International

The executive director of Papua New Guinea’s Chamber of Mines and Petroleum says the only way of guarding against fluctuating commodity prices is by diversifying the economy.

UPDATE: Wednesday 20 June 2012

By Simon Eroro and Melissa Martin

via Radio Australia

Tens of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province are having their food security undermined by illegal fishing, making recovery from recent floods more difficult.

By ELLEN TIAMU

THE country is expected to expe­rien­ce indefinite power outages when more than 2,000 PNG Power Ltd staff stage a protest starting today.
It could extend past the start of voting in the general election on Saturday.
Highlands union representative Cle­ment Ravini said yesterday in Lae:

“The sit-down protest will go on for as long as it takes to get the attention of the (Public Enterprises) minister (Sir Mekere Morauta).”

Tonga became a member of the WTO in 2005 under what has been described as "arguably the worst terms ever offered to any country" - requiring the Pacific Island nation to make wide ranging and binding commitments on trade liberalisation.

Produced by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)

It starts its journey at a place thousands of walks, sleeps and an ocean away called Melbourne. Carefully it gets printed and cut. A rectangular piece of plastic, coloured depictions of different digitalized, nationalised objects on one side, on the flip side you see either the Waigani *haus tambaran or the majestic bird of paradise. You can’t eat it, drink it, nurture it, decorate yourself with it or use it as an ornament on yourself nor your home.