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The National is the top-selling newspaper in Papua New Guinea. Headquartered in Port Moresby, it has offices in Five (5) centres: Lae, Mount Hagen, Kokopo, Madang and Goroka. We have two printing plants and the paper is simultaneously printed in the capital city of Port Moresby and the industrial city of Lae. The Natio
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Reduced food stock as drought, weevils destroy tubers
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (129+ words) RUTH Albert has discovered that grubs and weevils have bored into the kaukau (sweet potato) tubers she harvested from her garden. The prolonged dry period has encouraged weevils to cause damage to food crops, resulting in a loss of income…...
Stop compromising PNG LNG development, government told
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (321+ words) OPPOSITION Leader James Nomane has urged the Government to stop compromising the Papua LNG development forum, comply with the law, and take the consultations back to the people. Nomane said the Opposition would not accept success built on shortcuts, and…...
New water system supporting households in Kulangit
1+ week, 3+ day ago (228+ words) A LOCAL leader and tradesman in Kulangit, New Ireland, has initiated a bore water system that is currently supporting households in his community amid water shortages caused by the El Niño-induced dry conditions. Albert Tamme, a certified tradesman, used his…...
Businessman delivers water to drought-stricken communities in Jiwaka
1+ week, 4+ day ago (311+ words) GIBSON Kum, owner of Molga Lodge in Minj, South Waghi, has spent the past two months delivering 54,000 litres of water weekly to drought-stricken communities in Jiwaka. Kum transports 18,000 litres of water per run using two 9,000-litre tanks fitted with three…...
Nepal-China flooding death toll hits 1,000
1+ week, 4+ day ago (314+ words) KATHMANDU: The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China passed 1,000 yesterday (local time), authorities said, as rescue teams worked to reach communities cut off by the disaster. Nepal’s disaster agency said yesterday that 987 deaths had been counted there,…...
Vietnamese coffee farmers ride China’s durian wave
1+ week, 5+ day ago (291+ words) HANOI: Vietnam’s Central Highlands produces around one-sixth of the world’s coffee, but farmers are switching their traditional crop for durian to cash in on surging Chinese demand for the pungent “king of fruits”. “You can live okay with coffee, but…...
How severe are Indonesia’s wildfires?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (558+ words) SINGAPORE: As Indonesia’s wildfire season intensifies, authorities are on high alert as they work to contain the damage and avoid the devastation that hit the archipelago in 2015, the last time it faced such severe “super-El Niño” weather conditions. Indonesia has…...
Frost destroys crops at foot of Mt Wilhelm
1+ week, 5+ day ago (236+ words) FROST in parts of Chimbu is destroying crops belonging to the Mauglwak tribe in Mitnande at the foot of Mt Wilhelm, says local farmer Daniel Kagl. Kagl said the Kegesuglo-Kekla villagers were affected after 50 to 60 gardens of potatoes, kaukau, cabbages,…...
Potholes,blackouts and a dead battery
1+ week, 5+ day ago (709+ words) BY 2030, the Government confidently assures us that half of the government fleet on the roads will be sleek, whisper-quiet electric vehicles (EVs), a visionary leap forward that only requires one minor, insignificant miracle: a functioning power grid. As PNG Power…...
The cost of not acting on a climate crisis
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1110+ words) AS a Nepali citizen working on international climate policy for more than a decade, it is difficult to look at the harrowing images coming out of the catastrophic flash flood that thundered down valleys in Nepal, sweeping down the Lhende…...