Team PNG’s Long Jump queen, Rellie Kaputin was the last athlete to fly the red, black and gold as she took to the stage on Day 9 of the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games. Kaputin was the last to compete for Team PNG on day 3 of the Athletics competition in Tokyo as she shone through a field of world class athletes. Coming into the event as the lowest ranked (world ranking 69) athlete, Kaputin held her nerve to complete two of three jumps to record a best jump of 6.40m in three attempts. She fouled in her first attempt and came…
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In the bid to giving cardiac patients in PNG a new chance at life, BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) continues to stand firm in supporting the Operation Open Heart’s (OOH) Training and Development program with a cheque of K100, 000. The OOH program focusses on upskilling and building a sustainable way for PNG national doctors to become suitably qualified Cardiac Surgeons to provide lifesaving surgeries. Encouragingly, the program equips doctors to providing professional Heart Medical Treatments to those who are unable to access these services due to the limitations of the health care system including yearly Open Heart Surgery and…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) turns 60 years today 02nd of August 2021 since its inception in 1961. Having had a long and colourful history through the years of growth, transformation and changes in its name to what it is now known: The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee, has one executive Board that deals with 3 international entities namely; the Pacific Games Council (1962), Commonwealth Games Federation (1962) and the International Olympic Committee (1974) with their respective games on a four year cycle of events. Since its establishment in 1961, its main mission was to develop PNG Athletes…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) and Trukai Industries Ltd have announced today the 40 winners for the Trukai Fun Run T-shirt Sales Campaign raffles promotions. The draw was conducted at the PNGOC Office at Olympic Haus Boroko, in the presence of representatives of Trukai Industries Ltd, TSI Security Personnel and PNGOC to witness the occasion. PNGOC Corporate Manager Ian Leklek congratulated the winners and thanked them for supporting Team PNG through the purchase of Trukai Fun Run T-Shirts despite the tough economic times our country was facing. All Fund’s raised this year went towards supporting Team PNG to…
Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has raised $205 million from investors including Google Ventures, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The series C round, announced in a blogpost Thursday, was led by Dubai-based Vy Capital. It comes two years after Neuralink raised $51 million. Total investment in the company now stands at $363 million, according to start-up tracker Crunchbase. Founded in 2016, Neuralink is trying to develop high-bandwidth brain implants that can communicate with phones and computers. The company is targeting its first devices at quadriplegics — who are unable to interact with many of today’s devices —…
Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic. That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California. “Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who for 15 years has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street. “It could be devastating for us.” At the beginning of next year, California will begin…
The New Zealand Government will today formally apologise for the Dawn Raids, in a cultural ceremony at Auckland’s Town Hall. RNZ Pacific sat down with the Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio, in his only radio interview before standing alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, as she says sorry for the racist immigration policy that tore Pasifika families apart. Understandably with the long work programme this apology has required of him (there has only ever been two formal government apologies meeting human injustice criteria), a number of portfolios and a pandemic continuing to ravage the Pacific, Aupito said he was…
The PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum congratulates and also expresses its support to the PNG Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) on the release of the 7th Papua New Guinea Extractive Industries Transparency Report which details the industry’s mandatory payments to government in 2019. The Chamber notes with satisfaction the full participation of the extractive industry operating projects in furnishing information required to compile the 2019 Report. We are pleased that the current report provides a more comprehensive information from industry and government of the revenue derived from the resource projects and also noting the enormous voluntary contribution in community…
Judith Meauri took to the pool on Friday night in the 50m freestyle event with over 80 swimmers taking part amongst 10 heats. Meauri is a second time Olympian having raced in the London Olympic Games in 2012. Her swim tonight of 27.56 seconds beat the time she set back in London of 27.84. Meauri won heat 4 of the 11 heats in the event. Speaking after the race, Meauri said she was very happy with the race and that she was excited to compete but felt she had faced the race calmly and achieved everything she had set out…
On a path to picking out young talents at an early age and preparing them onto the right path to achieve the bigger dreams, BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) presented K40,000 to Rabaul Rugby Football League (RRFL) School Rugby League Competition in East New Britain Province today. The K40,000 support will go towards the Rabaul Select Side, U/14 boys, U/16 boys and U/18 boys and girls teams. The funds will cover four sets of jerseys worth K20,000, equipment at K10,00 and an added K10,000 to upgrade the sports field. BSP Rabaul Branch Manager Kalat Tiriman announced this saying, “participation in…