Port Moresby is further relaxing the ban on betel nut, adding restricted areas for its sale and use at the newly renovated Koki market.
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Category: Surrealpolitik
Call for anti-‘grasshopping’ ideas for 2016 Vanuatu referendum
The Vanuatu government has announced a new attempt to change its parliamentary system to stop MPs crossing the floor and to clarify the affiliations of independents.
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Radio Australia to cease Asia shortwave service
Radio Australia’s shortwave signal to Asia will cease this weekend, another result the ABC says of recent government funding cuts.
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PNG rates badly in World Rights Report 2015
Human Rights Watch released its World Rights Report 2015 late yesterday, and the chapter on Papua New Guinea detailed a range of concerns, including the nation’s problems with police brutality.
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‘Tigers’ snared by China’s anti-corruption campaign
Since his ascendency to general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012 and the presidency in March 2013, Xi Jinping has executed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government and state-owned industry.
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Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian released on medical parole
Taiwan’s ailing former president Chen Shui-bian has been freed from prison on medical parole after serving six years of a 20-year sentence for corruption during his presidency.
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Lebanon struggling to help Syrian refugees
More than two million refugees have now fled Syria’s civil war seeking safe haven in neighbouring countries.
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Regional leaders hail ‘pioneer’ Gough Whitlam
The passing of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is not just a day of mourning for Australia, but also for a region shaped by his expansive policies of outreach to Asia and the Pacific, regional leaders say.
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Nobel Peace Prize: Meet some of the 2014 nominees
The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is due to be announced later this evening by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Super typhoon hovering near major Chinese cities
The Chinese island of Hainan and its adjacent province Guangzhou are riding out a super typhoon that’s believed to be the largest in forty years.
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