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UHC drives progress across all of the SDGs
UHC2030
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July 28, 2025
At the 2025 HLPF, world leaders and stakeholders came together to review progress on the 2030 Agenda and confront the intersecting crises of our time: poverty, inequality, climate emergencies, global instability and underfunded essential services....
PNG50 Gospel Music Festival set for August
Pngbuzz.com
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July 27, 2025
As Papua New Guinea approaches its 50th year of Independence, a powerful wave of faith and unity is building across the nation. At the heart of this movement is the Jubilee Reset Gospel Music Festival, taking place on August 23–24, 2025, at Sir...
We used tiny sensors in backpacks to discover the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water
The Conversation
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July 29, 2025
Every year, nomadic Australian waterbirds fly vast distances to find food and the perfect nesting site. They have to be good at finding not just water, but the right kind of water. But across much of Australia, that can be hard. These species need...
Australians ahead of the game in aid debate, MPs should follow
The Interpreter
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July 29, 2025
The international order is fracturing, and Australians sense it. Across every domain – territorial integrity, trade, human rights, the environment, and war – the rules are being torn up. Yet while the United States dismantles key aid institutions...
Solomon Islands pre-cautionary approach to deep sea mining
Pacific News Service
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The Solomon Islands Government through the Ministry of Mines and Energy will be taking pre-cautionary approach when it comes to opening up the country to deep sea mining. This was echoed by Minister of Mines and Energy Bradley Tovosia in...
Live: ASX falls as trade optimism fades, Trump flags 15-20pc 'baseline' tariff
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 28, 2025
Sir Michael Hill, the famous jeweller, has died.Michael Hill International Limited (ASX: MHJ) has posted a statement to the stock exchange announcing the passing of its founder and non-executive director.The company has expressed their deepest and...
Super League expansion blows up NRL investment: but opens door to breakaway
Love Rugby League
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July 29, 2025
In the Netherlands, there is a central concept that underlines political culture: polderen. A polder is an area of land, reclaimed from the sea and enclosed by dykes, protected from rising tides only by the combined efforts of those living on it....
Post-Courier Online sends six to Digital News Academy event in Sydney
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 29, 2025
Post-Courier Online is sending six of its members to attend the Digital News Academy (DNA) annual event in Sydney, Australia today. The annual event will include tours of News Corp Australia and Google Headquarters. The Digital News Academy is a...
GFP expands footprint in Sisters
The Nugget Newspaper - Oregon
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GFP Enterprises is one of those businesses in Sisters that is largely unknown outside the industry in which they operate. In this case, that’s hazard, disaster, and emergency response. GFP operates with high degrees of logistical complexity,...
PNG and Japan Deepen Economic Partnership as PM Marape Leads High-Level Visit
One Papua New Guinea
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July 25, 2025
Papua New Guinea has laid the groundwork for the next 50 years of PNG–Japan cooperation following a landmark visit by Prime Minister James Marape, who held bilateral talks with Japan’s leadership and met with key investors in Tokyo and Osaka....
World court rules in favour of Pacific
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 25, 2025
Papua New Guinea has proved it’s worth at the International Court of Justice on climate change. For the first time, four State lawyers, including Minister for Justice and Attorney General Pila Niningi and Secretary for the Department of Justice Dr...
Harness digital tools to preserve culture
The National
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IN recent years, the internet has become an indispensable tool for communication, information sharing, and economic development in Papua New Guinea. As the country embraces the digital age, there is a growing recognition of the need to promote...
PNG Resource Governance Coalition first meet
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 26, 2025
THE Papua New Guinea Resource Governance Coalition (PNGRGC) held its first subnational awareness workshops in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province. The objective of the workshop was to increase awareness of the PNGRGC’s role and initiatives,...
TerraPay Secures AUSTRAC Registration to Deepen Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure in Australia and the Pacific
Financial IT
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July 29, 2025
TerraPay, a global money movement company announced its registration with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)as both an Independent Remittance Provider (IRP) and a Remittance Network Provider (RNP). This regulatory...
'I swapped student life in the UK for Caribbean island - and saved myself £88k in tuition fees'
The Mirror
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July 29, 2025
A student has moved to a Caribbean island for university - saving herself £88k in tuition fees in the process. Tamara Leslie, 20, started a biomedical course at the University of Sussex but quit after a week - when she discovered she could get the...
ExxonMobil Pledges To Deepen Support For Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Industry
Daily Independent
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July 29, 2025
1 LAGOS – ExxonMobil has pledged to deepen support for the growth of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. Mr. Jagir Baxi, its new Chairman and Managing Director, and Lead Country Manager, of its affiliates in Nigeria, disclosed this in a statement....
Marape Welcomes World Bank, Reaffirms Budget Goals and Development Push
PNG Business News
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Port Moresby, 24 July 2025 – Prime Minister James Marape today welcomed Anna Bjerde, managing director for Operations at the World Bank, to Papua New Guinea for high-level discussions on the country’s development progress, fiscal reform and...
Statement of the Forty-second meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency Committee
The National Tribune
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July 28, 2025
The Forty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 18 June 2025 with committee members and advisers...
Three scholars embark on academic journey to Japan
The Islandsun
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July 29, 2025
BY CHRIS ALEX Marking a significant milestone for the Solomon Islands human resource development, three promising public servants have been selected as the country’s first recipients of the prestigious Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...
JAPAN’S TUNA KING EYE INVESTMENT OPPS IN PNG FISHERIES SECTOR
PNG Haus Bung
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July 25, 2025
The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) has welcomed the interest of Japanese seafood giant, Kiyomura Corporation, in exploring potential investment opportunities in Papua New Guinea’s fisheries sector. Kiyomura Corporation, renowned for its...