Premiership-winning Panthers Jarome Luai and Brian To’o carved Greece to bits as Samoa claimed a comprehensive 72-4 victory to put their World Cup campaign back on track. Eight days on from being humbled by England in a 60-6 loss, Samoa piled on the points in Doncaster, with Luai setting up five tries on his way to player of the match honours, while To’o had a colossal 370 run metres, with 17 tackle busts thrown in for good measure. Samoa led 42-0 at the break, and the game was effectively over within the first 20 minutes, with Samoa 12-0 by the…
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Distribution of the Government’s tuition fee free education commodity component for schools in the Rabaul District of East New Britain province was rolled out last week. It contains teaching and learning materials for students. They include exercise books, pencils, ball-point pens, rulers, sharpeners and erasers. The kits are packed differently to meet the needs of students from primary to high schools. Rabaul District Administrator, Benedict Mode said today that distribution of the basic learning materials which comes under the support of commodity component kicked off on Monday (Oct 17) and was successfully distributed to the 54 schools in the district…
Prime Minister James Marape has congratulated ExxonMobil on its 100 years in Papua New Guinea and says the company is welcome to stay on for another 100 years. He said this when addressing ExxonMobil’s 100th Anniversary Dinner in Port Moresby on Saturday night, which was also attended by Ministers, Governors, MPs, members of the business community and senior executives of ExxonMobil. PM Marape said he had attended ExxonMobil’s 100 anniversary and asked the company to be around for PNG’s 100th anniversary, and hopefully by then, ExxonMobil in partnership with Government had contributed to a better-developed PNG. “Tonight is worth celebrating,”…
A 10-year-old girl from Inverness has become one of the youngest people to conquer all 282 Munros in Scotland. Quinn Young began the challenge with her dad Ian when she was just four years old. She climbed Ben Nevis shortly before turning five. She told BBC Scotland: “I feel proud of myself, but also a little upset because the adventure with my dad’s kind of finished.” Munros are Scottish peaks of more than 3,000ft (914m). Quinn wanted to complete her ‘Munro bagging’ challenge before she finished primary school. She said: “It’s a big deal because it’s something I’ve been doing…
Towards the end of the 1985 sci-fi classic “Back to the Future,” the archetypal mad inventor Doc Brown announces “where we’re going, we don’t need roads” as the time-travelling DeLorean lifts into the air. Whilst flying cars aren’t yet filling our skies, a number are in development. Last week the Chinese XPeng X2 successfully completed the first public test flight of its two-seater flying car at GITEX technology expo in Dubai — and it even shares the DeLorean’s famous gull-wing door design. The XPeng X2 lifts vertically off the ground using eight propellers, without need for a runway and is…
The Solomon Islands Secretary to the Prime Minister is defending a $US308,000 trip to the UN General Assembly. Dr Jimmy Rodgers told local media the money was worth spending because government ‘got all the agendas brought up at global level.’ Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs Collin Beck added the cost of the trip is small compared to its benefit. The Solomon Star obtained documents listing charges of the trip. The Solomon Star obtained details of the types of hotels used, and daily rates for each hotel in Australia, New York, and the Pacific Leaders’ Summit with US President Joe Biden…
Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine after they expired. The firm stopped producing Covishield in December last year due to low demand, CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Thursday. SII, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has been making the local version of AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria jab. Covishield accounts for over 90% of the doses given in India. India has administered over two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. More than 70% of the Indian population has taken at least two doses, according to the federal health ministry. In…
A first half double from departing Panthers forward Viliame Kikau and a second half double from Eels winger Maika Sivo has paved the way for a dominant Fiji to secure their first victory of this year’s World Cup with a 60-4 win over Italy. After going down against Australia in their opening game of the World Cup, the Bati raced out of the blocks against the Azzurri with three tries in the opening 15 minutes paving the way for one of Fiji’s biggest ever wins on the international stage. Kikau was one of many who shone in the first half…
Her rise to power at the head of the party she founded has been meteoric, but Giorgia Meloni has been politically active since she was a teenage activist in a neo-fascist party’s youth wing in Rome. Now at 45 she has accepted the role of Italy’s first female prime minister, although she has picked a government in which only one in four ministers are women. Meloni has come to power partly by fortune. Her Brothers of Italy party was one of very few that chose not to join Mario Draghi’s national unity government and she became a solitary opposition voice.…
A huge blaze has engulfed a train line and homes in Aguascalientes, central Mexico, after a fuel truck crash. Dramatic video of the fire went viral on social media, including aerial shots of black smoke blanketing a large area of the city. One video showed a cargo train hurtling through flames. Mexico’s El Universal website says more than 1,500 people were evacuated. Some homes and cars were gutted by fire. There are no reports of deaths, but several people were taken to hospital. Police have detained the truck driver. A Facebook post by Mayor Leo Montañez speaks of 300 homes…