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Somare’s Singapore sling leaves Koim with a hang-over

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By PNG Echo The recent revelation that PNG’s former Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, was named in a Singapore criminal prosecution as a recipient of $US784, 000.00 (K2, 540,000.00) has exposed Sam Koim’s position as a so-called anti-corruption fighter in PNG, as fundamentally compromised. Since Task Force sweep was decommissioned by the NEC, Koim has been kept afloat by unknown private sources. Is it Somare himself, or Somare’s political allies who are providing this funding? It’s really time Koim came clean with the people of PNG about who is funding his operations.  If Koim is, in fact funded by Somare Continue reading Somare’s Singapore sling leaves Koim with a hang-over→

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An ill wind blows in Bougainville

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By PNG Echo A cold political wind is blowing on the islands of Bougainville that’s fuelling a cold war. This wayward wind, which was downgraded to a tropical breeze at the cessation of hostilities in the bloody civil war on Bougainville at the end of the 1990s, has never been tamed but held in check by a peace agreement signed by most of the warring parties. The Promise The keystone of the accord was the promised plebiscite for an independent state, to take place within 20 years of the agreement. The promise effectively took the wind out of the sails Continue reading An ill wind blows in Bougainville→

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