The Grand Papua Hotel in Port Moresby is a proud winner of two International Hotel Awards in the Asia Pacific region for 2021/2022. The International Hotel Awards recognizes and celebrates the hotel industry worldwide, with votes cast by travelers, guests and industry players. It is the first year the Grand Papua Hotel has entered the Luxury Hotel Awards and we are proud to have been awarded the following: • Best City Hotel for Papua New Guinea • Highly Commended Award for Luxury Hotel category for Papua New Guinea “It is a prestigious milestone for the Grand Papua Hotel to be…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
As more Papua New Guineans venture into Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), it is also important for these SMEs to save for retirement through an approved superannuation Fund. The National Superannuation Fund (Nasfund) provides an avenue for SMEs to do so, through its Eda Supa product. During its monthly appearance on Nasfund FM100 Talkback, the Fund’s Manager Business Development Melanie Lavaki, Team Leader New Business Hamilton Riman, and Team Leader Client Relations Raela Wari, provided an overview of Eda Supa, whilst also outlining its client relation engagements with members in the new normal. According to Manager Business Development Melanie Lavaki,…
Keeping hands clean is important to help prevent viruses and germs from spreading. Every day, we use our hands for many activities which exposes them to harmful bacteria that can cause sickness. Good hand hygiene is important, especially during this time. Dentalife Australia (a research and development company in Melbourne specializing in dental and infection control materials) working in partnership with Oil Search Foundation (OSF) recently delivered 16,000 units of Handcare hand sanitizers to the Provincial Health Authorities in Southern Highlands, Hela, Gulf, and PNG Biomass in Lae. Dentalife Australia Marketing Manager, Josephine Kelly said, “The donation was made to…
Former Hekari United FC and Team PNG Kapuls Goalkeeper, Ishmael Pole has taken the initiative to conduct a goalkeeping clinic targeting all students in primary and international schools between the ages of 10 and 18. Mr. Pole said that after speaking with the coordinators of school soccer in Papua New Guinea, he is hoping to run the goalkeeping clinic during the term 3 holidays right after Independence Day. Mr. Pole will be going through the basics of goalkeeping with the participating schools. “In goalkeeping, there are diving drills, mostly catching. During the course of this goalkeeping clinic, I will not…
Leaders of Pacific regional countries and territories have agreed that the region’s maritime boundaries need to be recognised globally in perpetuity. They met in a Pacific Islands Forum virtual summit on Friday marking the regional body’s 50th anniversary. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern emerged from the summit saying they had “endorsed a declaration on maritime zones” to protect the ocean jurisdiction of Pacific countries against sea-level rise. Maritime boundaries are taken from points on land, and Pacific countries are seeking to assure their ocean dominion if shorelines diminish. Ardern said the declaration will be presented to the United Nations,…
Marie Stopes Papua New Guinea, the country’s largest provider of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, is calling for more to be done to eliminate unsafe abortion in PNG. “Last week, we read with sadness the news about a young lady, only sixteen years old, who lost her life because of an unplanned pregnancy. We send our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and community affected by this terrible tragedy,” said MSPNG Country Director, Dr David Ayres. “Unfortunately, this is not the first time a young woman has died because of an unplanned pregnancy in PNG, and it…
Just after releasing their Rumination EP (Extended Play) in July last month, Stagajah Band’s new single ‘Go Back’ has earned the top spot in the Apple Music’s ‘Top 100 Papua New Guinea’ most played songs. Songwriter and rapper Gaix said the band members are happy to see a song from Papua New Guinea make it to the number 1 position rather than an international artist taking out the spot on the Top 100 most played songs. “We are asking fellow Papua New Guinean artists to get their songs (quality songs) on this platform so Papua New Guinea music can be…
A book detailing the lives of 12 Cook Islands women in Tokoroa has just been launched to coincide with Cook Islands Language Week. Te Kinakina: E Ngara I te Ngari, Remember who you are and where you come from is the result of a series of creative writing workshops led by poet Vaughan Rapatahana and facilitated by South Waikato Pacific Island Community Services (SWPICS) with support from the Ministry of Education and Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. The book opens with introductions by Papa Timote Turu and editor Vaughan Rapatahana, and the stories are illustrated with colour photographs. These elements…
Israel’s Linoy Ashram caused a huge upset in the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final, becoming the first non-Russian champion since 1996. The 22-year-old toppled the long-standing reign by beating gold medal favourite Dina Averina of the Russian Olympic Committee into second place. Averina was left in tears as the scores were revealed, and said she felt her awarded marks were too low. “It’s very hard to talk at the moment,” Averina said afterwards. “I can’t agree with how the scoring went today.” She was consoled by her twin sister Arina, who finished fourth. “And this is maybe the first…
Apple is facing criticism over a new system that finds child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on US users’ devices. The technology will search for matches of known CSAM before the image is stored onto iCloud Photos. But there are concerns that the technology could be expanded and used by authoritarian governments to spy on its own citizens. WhatsApp head Will Cathcart called Apple’s move “very concerning”. Apple said that new versions of iOS and iPadOS – due to be released later this year – will have “new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing…