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When you’re handed a lemon – make lemonade. The PNG Oil Search shares saga.

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By PNG Echo. Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill has defended his government’s position on the controversial UBS loan in the wake of an article published by Fairfax Media saying: The cost of losses we suffered to the Arabs are far worse than the cost we pay on the loan from UBS.” He went on to explain: PNG paid $8.20 when the Somare government agreed to pay $8.50 to the Arabs, Oil Search is our country’s biggest tax payer and one of the largest employers of our citizens so why is it wrong for us to be a stable shareholder in that Continue reading When you’re handed a lemon – make lemonade. The PNG Oil Search shares saga.→

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Nation building and the necessity of historical national symbols

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By PNG Echo. Who gave Speaker of the Papua New Guinean Parliament, Theo Zurenuoc, the right to shape Papua New Guinea after an image that he chooses? Who gave him the right to arbitrarily reinterpret the constitution and what the founding father’s meant – and to decide where they’d erred? I’m speaking, specifically, of the tearing down of traditional artefacts originally commissioned for the Haus Tambaran to be replaced by others that the Speaker finds more to his taste, sensibilities and his personal interpretation of the Christian doctrine.

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