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Everything changes, and we are too.

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Welcome to the all new PNG Echo. Paga Ring Road, Port Moresby after the 8 Km Sunday walk of WYFL initiative. We are changing our focus from a purely political page to a monthly lifestyle magazine for the discerning Papua New Guinean reader. While we will not be ignoring politics completely, we will be expanding our range of topics to include- family stories, travel, food, wine, health, poetry, fiction, humour …and so much more. It is our intention to include and feature articles from talented Papua New Guinean writers, so anyone wishing to submit an article for consideration should do Continue reading Everything changes, and we are too.→

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Bougainville: an opinion extracted from a feature in ‘Plus’ magazine.

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By Chris Baria (Read the extract below or read the whole feature here: https://issuu.com/home/published/plus_may19_issuu ) The Autonomous Region of Bougainville with its own government was an interim agreed measure to come out of the Bougainville Peace Agreement. The Autonomous Bougainville Government is a government without economy that has failed to build a short-term income base from what is already available such as alluvial gold, cash crops and fisheries levy. I believe, this is because too much money and time has been wasted, including money from the national government, on trying to reopen the mine at Panguna. In my opinion, Australian Continue reading Bougainville: an opinion extracted from a feature in ‘Plus’ magazine.→

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