Links:PNG news

Trawen-PNG elections to go ahead

Occupy Wagani-Tuesday

Newsbits: J.Cole album, PomCRS Morning Tea...

J. Cole promises no more hold ups

 J. Cole is finally gearing up for the release of his debut album, promising fans that there will be "no more hold up." Speaking at a press conference for the 2011 BET Awards, Cole said he was preparing to get deep into the promotional cycle with the release of an as-yet-untitled new single.

"Now it's time," he said. "I always had the material for the album. The hold-up was always picking the right single. I think we knew that there was so much on the line and the potential that I had, so we were kind of hesitant.... [Now,] there's no more hold up."

Official-Voice calling on Gmail

Spotted this today when I signed in.

Read more here

Topic of Interest: Resveratol

CNN presents: Scream Bloody Murder

Yesterday (07 Dec) CNN screened a two hour documentary by one of its
long time international correspondents Christiane Amanpour titled Scream Bloody Murder.

Featuring the most prominent cases of genocide since the Holocaust in places such as Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda and Dafur.
The documentary tells how a handful of people including Francois Ponchaud, Richard Holbrook, Roméo Dallaire, Peter Galbraith and Dr.Mukesh Kapila tried to get the
international community to intervene and stop the killings.

Scream Bloody Murder is a vivid look into how "politics trumps principle" and how the immoral killing of innocent people because
of their ethnicity becomes an inconvenient truth in foreign policy.

THEME TAB in GMAIL

I'd been wondering when and if Gmail would introduce different colours and themes for it Gmail users and today they finally have. This morning as I logged on to check my emails, I found that gmail now has a "theme tab" in its settings. You can now apply different colours and themes for you mailbox.

President Elect: Barack Obama

It's Official, USA's 44th president is Barack Obama.



Watch his acceptance speech

Through the Wire

Somare sails in deep water

PRIME Minister Sir Michael Somare has a shareholding in a ship safety certification company despite publicly denying his interest in Parliament.
“I do not have any shareholding in PRS (Pacific Register of Ships) and therefore have no reason to disclose anything to the Ombudsman Commission,” he told Parliament early this month when responding to questions by Opposition Leader Sir Mekere Morauta.

But company registration details obtained from the Investment Promotion Authority (IPA) show Sir Michael is one of five shareholders of Pacific Register of Ships Limited (PRS). He holds the share “in trust for the Independent State of PNG”. continue reading

Somare's got a lot of skeletons in his closet and its seems they're coming out this spring for cleaning. I wonder what else one would find if he/she dug deeper.


Monday Jagged Edge Video

Jagged Edge - What's it like

Through the Wire:

East Timor President's life hangs in the balance

East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta is on life support and an induce coma after being shot in the stomach. continue reading

In related news, New Zealand troops are on standby and may be deployed to East Timor to boost existing numbers following the attempted assassination of the president doubled with fears of a return to instability in the country.

Aussies to release wording of apology

The exact wording of the Australian Federal Governments apology to the Stolen Generation will be revealed in federal parliament after 7pmNZT, just hours before Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gets to his feet in the House of Representatives tomorrow to deliver the long-awaited apology.

Mr Rudd said the government was trying to balance the expectations of the opposition with those of indigenous people.

"Remember who our audience is, which is indigenous people, (who want) to have an apology registered with them through the parliament," he said. An apology to the Stolen Generation was one of Rudd's promises that he said he would fulfil when elected into government. continue reading

New discovery in battle against AIDS

Researchers have found another handle that the AIDS virus uses to attack cells, and said this one may explain how it gets into the gut, where it hides out and multiplies for a full assault on the body.

The handle is a cell receptor, and its discovery could open new ways to fight the fatal and so far incurable virus, the team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported on Sunday. continue reading

Trukai sells rice to Australia
IN a remarkable breakthrough for PNG manufacturing, Trukai Industries is now milling and packing rice in Lae to supply the Australasian market.
Over a thousand tonnes of rice is being packed at the company's state-of-the art mill in Lae and exported to Australia, New Zealand and Solomon Islands. continue reading

Sources: stuff.co.nz and Postcourier online

Post does a Gordon Bennett (snr)

The Post has again, although mildly, been told to know it boundaries after it conducted separate interviews of Toy Molly (who suffered brutal abuse that lead to the death of her unborn child) and her husband who is the accused of the abuse, a case which has been given a lot of coverage in the paper over the last two weeks.

If you can't stand the heat...

"PRIME Minister Sir Michael Somare yesterday revealed he would introduce legislation to regulate the media.
Fuming at yesterday’s front page article in the Post-Courier which detailed his discreet arrival in Port Moresby from America, the Chief told Parliament it was time the country’s daily newspapers were regulated as they continue to publish anti-Government stories." SOURCE

When governments start talking bout regulating the media, the people should start asking serious questions. Start regulating freedom of speech and then you take away people's basic rights. While the Post Courier ran this on their front page, I could not find any story bout that in the National Online. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I wonder what happened there?

Pacific News Section added to the Post online

PNG's number one daily has added a Pacific News Section onto their online content. Did anyone else spot this or am I on the late bus? It took me a minute to realise this but good on them for doing that! Although I must add that it would be better if they placed it under the main News Section rather than under the Post Courier Says Section. All in due course I suppose...

Update on NZ to PNG txting

Let me clarify things. I'm referring to Vodafone NZ (note the "NZ to PNG txting" in the post title)

Digicel have gotten their wires crossed.
Let me use bullet points to avoid confusion:
- Telecom (NZ) customers can txt Digicel numbers
-Digicel customers cannot txt Telecom numbers
-Digicel customers can txt Vodafone numbers
-Vodafone customers cannot txt Digicel numbers

I guess their main priority is to get interconnectivity between their customers and BMobile and even that hasn't gone to plan.