Awareness on HIV and AIDS needs to go out to prevent more people from getting infected with HIV, says Margaret Marabe, a long-time advocate on HIV. Ms Marabe says there was a lot of awareness years ago, but this has drastically gone down. “Communities must do awareness so people can go for HIV test,’’ she says. “Churches can ask us to come and do awareness and conduct (counselling and HIV) tests”. She says many people, including school-aged children are getting infected with HIV, awareness needs to go out everywhere, including schools and villages or rural communities. She says those who…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
Vanuatu looks set to elect its first female politician in more than 10 years as results from the country’s snap election roll in. Gloria Julia King is in the running to win one of eight rural seats in Efate, Vanuatu’s main island. She says it would be a huge victory for female empowerment and she wants to inspire other women to follow her lead. “Being able to carry a female voice into parliament, let’s all people in Vanuatu know that there is a female voice up there representing them,” she said. Official results from last Thursday’s vote are expected in…
Papua New Guinea’s potential final path to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ became clear last week following the draw for the qualifying Play-Off Tournament to be played in New Zealand in February 2023. Papua New Guinea have been drawn in Group C – alongside Chinese Taipei, Paraguay and Panama – following the draw at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday, October 14. Papua New Guinea will take on Panama in the Group C semi-finals at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland on February 19. Chinese Taipei face Paraguay in the other semi-final clash at Waikato Stadium in…
The BSP Financial Group’s Limited (BSP) Community partners and Australian professional rugby league club, the Brisbane Broncos Management and a few current players are in the country for few days visit as part of their community engagement drive with BSP. This partnership focuses on both parties working together in three key areas within the BSP operations; Education through Financial Literacy, SME and Leadership. Led by the Brisbane Broncos Club Chief Executive Officer, Dave Donaghy , Management Team and the former Queensland and Club Legend Scott Prince and three NRL Players Keenan Palasia, Delouise Hoeter and Ethan Quai –Ward were in…
A six week combined security forces operation will begin soon in the National Capital District targeting hot spots and criminal activities, said acting Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP)Special Operations Donald Yamasombi. Following the dissatisfaction expressed by the Prime Minister on the lawlessness in NCD, Commissioner of Police David Manning appointed Mr Yamasombi to support the Divisional Commander of NCD/Central, Mr Anthony Wagambie Jnr, in his crime fight strategies in the city. “In that regard I’ve done a supplementary operation order in relation to what the NCD Divisional Commander has already instituted on the ground,” says Mr Yamasombi. He said resources…
Mate Ma’a Tonga have survived a scare from a committed PNG Kumuls outfit to come away with a 24-18 win at St Helens’ Totally Wicked Stadium. In the game of the World Cup to date, the Tongans broke an 18-18 deadlock with three minutes to play courtesy of a miracle try to Rabbitohs star Kaeon Koloamatangi on his Test debut. Come the 35th minute it was Tonga taking the lead when interchange forward Moeaki Fotuaika finished off some great lead-up work by Tui Lolohea and Koloamatangi to dot down under the sticks. Dolphins-bound young gun Isaiya Katoa was next to…
Members of BTS, the K-pop supergroup, are planning to undertake military service, the band’s record label confirmed Monday, with Jin, the oldest member, aiming to start the process at the end of the month. Military service is mandatory in South Korea, where almost all able-bodied men are required to serve in the army for 18 months by the time they are 28 years old. South Korea’s parliament passed a bill in 2020 allowing pop stars – namely those who “excel in popular culture and art” – to defer their service until the age of 30. With Jin turning 30 this year, and the…
In the winter of 2019, a number of children living in India’s Jammu region began falling sick with what many thought was a mysterious illness. The children, suffering from cough and cold, had been prescribed a cough syrup by local doctors. Instead of recovering, they fell seriously ill, vomiting, running high fever and kidneys shutting down. By the time the mystery was solved, 11 children, aged between two months and six years, had died. Tests found that three samples of the cough syrup, made by an Indian drug company called Digital Vision, contained diethylene glycol or DEG, an industrial solvent…
Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guinea can learn so much from Israel, especially in the area of agriculture technology. He said this in Parliament on Friday (October 14, 2022) when answering a question from Morobe Governor, Luther Wenge, on the possibility of PNG setting up an embassy in Israel and vice-versa in light of PNG being a Christian country. PM Marape said the idea of a PNG Embassy in Israel was first mooted by former prime minister Peter O’Neill during a visit to Israel in 2013. He said he had met Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, during the…
France launched their World Cup campaign in style with a 34-12 win over competition newcomers Greece at Eco-Power Stadium. After failing to register a win at the last World Cup, a France side boasting more Super League experience than ever before, announced themselves as certified contenders on the world stage. In their first World Cup match, Greece were valiant in their defeat, with a runaway try in the 80th minute bringing the proud blue and white supporters to their feet in Doncaster on Tuesday. The World Cup debutants struggled to get out of their own half in the opening stages…