A Kabul professor tore up his diplomas live on television in Afghanistan in protest over the Taliban’s barring of women from higher education. The man, named Ismail Mashal, is founder of the private Mashal University in Kabul and also a lecturer at Kabul University. With tears in his eyes and his voice quivering, he ripped up the diplomas during an on-set appearance for the country’s Tolo News on Monday. “From today, I don’t need these diplomas anymore because this country is no place for an education. If my sister and my mother can’t study, then I don’t accept this education,” he said.…
Author: PNG Haus Bung
Reaching the milestone of providing support to over 15,000 cocoa, vanilla and fisheries-dependant households in the Sepik region in the first nine months of 2022, was the highlight of the Programme Steering Committee’s (PSC) meeting held in Wewak, East Sepik Province. The PSC meeting, attended by high officials from the PNG Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM), Department of Agriculture, Department of ICT, Provincial Administrations of East and West Sepiks, the European Union, and representatives from five involved UN agencies, also highlights the need to further strengthen the partnership between implementing partners, counterparts, and stakeholders at national, provincial, and…
Trukai Industries recently donated K5,000 to help purchase a CT Scanner for the Buka General Hospital. This assistance demonstrates Trukai Industries’ support for community activities under its health initiatives which is a part of its corporate social responsibility program. This donation was presented to the Bougainville Charity Foundation’s (BCF) fundraising drive to purchase a cancer detection equipment. BCF has helped many remote communities throughout Bougainville in various aspects, which include education and health with its recent fundraising appeal to purchase the cancer equipment for Bougainville’s main hospital. BCF’s Chairman Romulus Masiu described Trukai’s timely donation as a blessing to the…
The Lovongai Peacemakers and Warlords marked the first anniversary of their Declaration of Peace invoked at the Peace and Reconciliation ceremony at Lavongai Catholic Mission last December 2021 to end the terror of warfare and killings on New Hanover at a three-day Retreat held last week at the Ranguva Solwara Skul outside Kavieng. The leaders joined with community elders in prayer and worship and discussions to assess and evaluate the outcome of the ceasefire and the attacks on villagers and killings that flared in some areas of the north after the Lavongai Mission peace ceremonies. The Special Peace Officer and…
Robin Fleming is no Stanger to Papua New Guinea and the banking Industry in the Pacific. A well-respected figure in the executive circle hangs his boot after 42 years in the Banking Industry. Originally, from Australia, Robin is a devout man in a deeply Christian country of which he has become a citizen. He lives in PNG with his wife Dora, and three children Cassandra, Liam and Joshua. The Queensland-born is known by his trademark handlebar moustache and mullet hairstyle, but says less about him than it does about PNG’s business community. He is known by many on the streets…
Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cups and became the sport’s first global icon, has died at the age of 82. “Everything that we are, is thanks to you,” his daughter Kely Nascimento wrote in a post on Instagram, under an image of family members holding Pele’s hands. “We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.” Pelé was admitted to a hospital in São Paulo in late November for a respiratory infection and for complications related to colon cancer. Last week, the hospital said his health had worsened as his cancer progressed. He died on Thursday from multiple organ failure…
Trukai Industries has donated 13 tons of rice this festive season through its annual Christmas donation drive to hospitals, prisons and charity organisations. Through its corporate social responsibility program, the company has been able to assist and support these institutions by collaboratively working with NGOs like Save the Children, The PNG Cancer Relief Society, The Salvation Army and with influential industry bodies like the Young Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Trukai Industries CEO Alan Preston said this annual donation drive was to support the less fortunate during the festive period. “Our aim during this donation drive is to…
Acting PPC Central Senior Inspector Patterson Birigi said a prison escapee, jailed for killing his pregnant wife was recaptured by Central Police, in Nabuaka village along the Hiritano Highway on Christmas Day. He said police also arrested several suspects along the Hiritano Highway for drunk and disorderly behaviour, but most of them were cautioned and discharged. He said while patrolling along the Magie highway from Hula to Gabagaba Junction and into Kwikila Station, members of Romeo 500 unit arrested two suspects for drunk and disorderly behaviour and grievous bodily harm. The acting PPC said apart from these arrests, no major…
The death toll in the New York city of Buffalo has risen to 28, with thousands still without power amid a monster winter storm that has battered North America. Across the US, at least 62 people have died in weather-related incidents. In Buffalo, a state official said that military police are being brought in to help manage traffic in the city, where a driving ban remains in place. Looting has been reported in parts of the city during the emergency. The winter storm has also forced the cancellation of thousands of flights, including about 4,800 on Tuesday morning alone. Thousands of…
Rain and flooding forced more than 45,000 people into evacuation centres, most of the missing believed to be fishers. The death toll from Christmas day rains and flooding in the southern Philippines has risen to 13, according to the country’s disaster management council, with a further 23 people still missing. Most of the deaths were caused by flash floods after two days of heavy rains over Christmas, which affected more than 166,000 people and forced more than 45,000 to take shelter in evacuation centres, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Tuesday. Images on social media show…