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Police allege 268m kina was misappropriated from the Western Province People’s Dividends Community Mine Continuation Agreement (WPPD CMCA) trust fund and improperly paid into the accounts of the Ok Tedi Fly River Development Foundation (OTFRDF) and Sheppard’s law firm. The trust fund was established with profits from the Ok Tedi mine to fund development projects, such as roads, schools and health clinics for villages in Western Province impacted by the mine. When BHP built Ok Tedi on diffic...

China has dismissed Australian concerns about a planned new industrial fish facility on Papua New Guineas Daru Island, while locals are seeking some answers. Chinas Fujian Zhonghong Fishery Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with PNGs government to build a US$154 million fishery industrial park off Daru. Photo: Map: Google Earth The proposed industrial fishing development, only a few kilometres off PNGs southern border, has garnered the keen attention of Australian media. With Dar...

The Guardian last month. The town of Daru is the closest PNG community to Australia. Even though it is around 200 kilometres from the Australian mainland, it is very close to the islands of the Torres Strait that are within our northern border. Daru is the capital of Western Province (also known informally as Fly River Province), but it is a small community thats beset with numerous health and social issues. Last month, Chinas Fujian Zhonghong Fishery Company signed a memorandum of understan...

Reptiles Magazine As I walked between the table rows of my local bimonthly reptile and amphibian show in Birmingham, Ala., I spotted something I found particularly enjoyable. No, it was neither a tank of Fly River turtles marked “two for $10” nor a three-headed rat snake. In fact, what I saw was not any species of cold-blooded creature. A father had brought his two sons to their first reptile show, or at least that seemed to be the case. The wide-eyed boys’ stares and constant stream of p...