Category: Weekender
Pomio cocoa farmers diversify business
COVER STORY Locally-owned company, Kalamalage Holdings Limited sets up guest houses in Palmalmal township By MAPUN PIDIAN AT first glance, any new visitor to the East New Britain’s Pomio district […]
Cultural textbook nearing completion
CULTURE Brazilian scholar writes cultural guide with help from primary school students in New Ireland By CRAIG ALAN VOLKER BRAZILIAN social educator and researcher Cláudio da Silva has returned to […]
Hellfire as my father preached it
FAITH By FRANK SENGE KOLMA [email protected] MY dad, Leo, had a simple belief. He stuck to his learning and deviated not from it. His learning, in the Simbu vernacular catechism […]
Janet spends years weaving her love for rugby teams
MOTHERS DAY By ALPHONSE BARIASI JANET Ogiyato Hayori of Eastern Highlands has dedicated 18 years of her life weaving wearables out of her love for the Queensland Maroons and the […]
Getting to Cairns an evening too soon
TRAVEL Marfuka is a fictional character who enjoys a good yarn. He tells stories that capture his life from when he could remember as a small boy to his adult life […]
Airport reopens, district plans launched
GOVERNMENT Southern Highlands districts celebrate IT was a clear blue sky on the morning of May 2. To the right, the first PNG Air aircraft descends into the Mendi valley. […]
East Street Fitness beckons
FITNESS Couple goes from falling in love in a gym to owning one By PATRICIA KEAMO YOU may have heard of love stories with charming first encounters that blossomed into […]
Kids from ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ are all grown up
ENTERTAINMENT The adorable trio of child actors from the 1993 classic comedy Mrs Doubtfire, which starred the late and great Robin Williams, are all grown up and looking back on […]
PNG, Aust universities collaborate
EDUCATION THE partnership between the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business and Public Policy (SBPP) and the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy (Crawford) commenced in […]
Welome to Ralph’s Sheep Hotel
COVER STORY Pioneer sheep and goat farm on course to start delivering fresh meat within a year By ALPHONSE BARIASI A WORD for the visitor: Do take the first bleating […]