A court in Turkey has sentenced a televangelist, who surrounded himself with young women he referred to as his “kittens”, to 8,658 years in prison. Adnan Oktar, who has been described as a cult leader, was convicted of sexual assault and abuse of minors. Oktar, 66, fronted his own television channel, through which he delivered religious sermons. He is a fierce opponent of the theory of evolution, and wrote a widely mocked book on creationism. He was originally given a jail sentence of 1,075 years but an appeal court ordered a retrial involving 215 defendants. Ten of them were also…
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Joseph Singiringabo has lost almost everything and everyone he held dear to Ebola. In a few short weeks, the 78-year-old lost his wife, his son, and a newborn granddaughter to the disease. He is left taking care of three grandchildren under 13 after their mother fled the village to escape the danger of Ebola. His livestock was stolen while he was away in the required 21-day quarantine, leaving him destitute and desperate. I don’t know where they got the virus from because I went and got checked and I left the hospital without any problem with these children of mine,”…
BSP Financial Group Limited (BSP) Presented K22, 000 to the Port Moresby General Hospital Cancer Ward yesterday (Friday 18th October, 2022) at the BSP Waigani Head Office in Port Moresby. Through a PINKTOBER fundraising drive carried out by the Corporate Business Unit who raised K10,000 whilst Asset Management, Lending Support and Collections Business units together raised K12, 000.00, a total of K22, 000. Fundraising activities included, sale of raffle tickets, PINKTOBER Walkathon, sausage sizzles and other organized cancer awareness programs to raise funds during the month of October. The K22, 000.00 proceeds will go towards Port Moresby General Hospital Cancer…
The small cluster of islands is sinking, and plans are now underway to recreate the country in the cloud before it disappears entirely. For a safety-minded first-time traveller to Funafuti International Airport in Tuvalu, one of the more bizarre and harrowing sights from an airplane circling to land used to be watching tiny dots scurrying below, clearing the 1.5km runway of soccer balls, clothing, children and stray dogs. But now Tuvalu is proposing to offer an even bleaker bird’s eye view of itself, by recreating it somewhere in the metaverse. It’s bleak because Tuvalu is already preparing for the day…
Acting Prime Minister John Rosso has congratulated the Swire Shipping Group and its subsidiaries on reaching 150 years of doing business around the world and 84 years of operating its shipping service in Papua New Guinea. The Acting Prime Minister said John Swire & Sons Limited started operations on the Yangtze River in China in 1872 and commenced operations in Papua New Guinea in 1938. He said Swire’s first regular shipping service between Papua New Guinea and Australia started in 1960 and it was called the New Guinea Australia Line. “I thank Swire for not only employing Papua New Guineans…
Prime Minister James Marape says Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him an undertaking to buy more or all that Papua New Guinea produces. The undertaking was made during a bilateral meeting between President Xi and PM Marape on the sidelines of APEC 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday (Friday, November 18, 2022), where PM Marape said that it was no longer aid or grant that was in the forefront of his agenda but trade, commerce and more business between both countries. PM Marape said after the meeting that the onus was now on Papua New Guinea to start increasing production in…
England have broken a 14-year drought and claimed the 2021 Wheelchair World Cup title after defeating France 28-24 in dramatic fashion on Saturday morning (AEDT) in Manchester. With the scores locked with less than 10 minutes to play it was skipper Tom Halliwell who crossed the line in the 77th minute to hand the hosts their first World Cup Championship since 2008. Trailing 14-6 in the first half, it was Jack Brown who ignited a late charge by the hosts, scoring a double to finish his incredible World Cup campaign as the competition’s leading try scorer. After an incorrect play-the-ball…
Family planning services including vasectomy are crucial for families to better plan on the number of children they want to have. Many men who want vasectomies live in remote areas where it is difficult to access health services. When an outreach team arrives in a village, men and women from neighbouring villages will walk long distances to access family planning services. Teams set up their mobile sterilised rooms and start the day providing education and peer counselling sessions with clients before assisting couples with their family planning needs. The following is a story of one such outreach conducted by Marie…
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) marked the one year to go to the Solomon Islands 2023 Pacific Games with a donation of the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games Relay Books to the 11 libraries run by Buk Bilong Pikinini (BbP) in Port Moresby. The donation to the BbP libraries occurred at the early learning center located at the University of Papua New Guinea library. The event included a fun-filled educational session with Team PNG athletes sharing about the different sports, the Olympic Values and the Games that they have participated in. The donated pictorial book contains pictures of…
James Tedesco admits the Kangaroos need to beat Toa Samoa in the World Cup Final for the tournament to be a success, but the days of Australia dominating the international game are over. The Kangaroos are raging favourites to stop Samoa becoming the first tier two nation to win the World Cup, but Tedesco says the tournament has shown at least five nations are now able to beat each other on any given day. “Samoa proved that by beating England, who everyone expected was going to be in the grand final,” Tedesco said. “The Samoa-Tonga quarter-final went down to the…