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The National Online The National is the top-selling newspaper in Papua New Guinea. The National is distributed five days a week from Monday to Friday.

Headquartered in Port Moresby, it has offices in five centres: Lae, Mount Hagen, Kokopo, Madang and Goroka. Headquartered in Port Moresby, it has offices in Five (5) centres: Lae, Mount Hagen, Kokopo, Madang and Goroka. We have two printing plants and the paper is simultaneously printed in the capital city of Port Moresby and the industrial city of Lae.

20/07/2025

POLICE in the nation's capital officially opened the Pacific Police Tattoo today to celebrate Papua New Guinea's 50th anniversary in September.

The constabulary will host a police band parade and a musical concert at the Hubert Murray Stadium on Tuesday.

The Pacific Police Tattoo will feature police bands from Fiji, Solomon Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu.

Read more in The National.

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20/07/2025

PRIME Minister James Marape has departed for Japan today to attend the World Expo in Osaka, where he is expected to deliver an address during Papua New Guinea Day tomorrow.

On Tuesday, he will hold a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Read more in The National.

Video by SAMANTHA KATI

ON July 11, 2025, Janet Philemon closed her office door at the Papua New Guinea Red Cross for the last time. It marked t...
19/07/2025

ON July 11, 2025, Janet Philemon closed her office door at the Papua New Guinea Red Cross for the last time. It marked the end of a 32-year journey through some of the toughest times in PNG Red Cross Society’s history, during which she helped change the way the organisation provides humanitarian services in the country.

Now at 77, Janet’s retirement comes at the invitation of her grandchildren in Australia, who convinced her it was time to step down from active service after more than three decades of dedication to providing humanitarian services in Papua New Guinea.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/janet-leaves-with-a-contented-heart/

PORT Moresby Show used to feature a ‘battle of the bands.’ (Yes, there had been a Port Moresby Show in the decades after...
19/07/2025

PORT Moresby Show used to feature a ‘battle of the bands.’ (Yes, there had been a Port Moresby Show in the decades after independence.)

At one such battle, it came down to a contest between two of city’s biggest names then, the Bluff Inn Souls and Gwadu Band. In the end, Gwadu’s rendition of a Guitar boogie (guitar work) and Wipe out (drums piece) won the battle. The winning drummer was Billy Aisi .

Billy started following the original Gwadu Band wherever they played, led by his father Aisi Kone, originally from Delena in Bereina who got married to a Hanuabada woman and settled there.

Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/billys-voice-and-drums-fall-silent/

PREPARATORY work has started on the long-delayed multibillion-kina Ramu 2 Hydropower project in the Eastern Highlands Pr...
19/07/2025

PREPARATORY work has started on the long-delayed multibillion-kina Ramu 2 Hydropower project in the Eastern Highlands Province with the full blessing of the National Government.

The Ramu 2 power project is to be built under the built, operate and transfer (BOT) arrangement by a Chinese company, Shenzhen Energy Sinohydro Consortium Group.

Valued at K3 billion, the 180-megawatt Ramu 2 project represents the State’s vision and directive to generate least cost hydroelectricity power energy for Papua New Guinea.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/work-begins-on-delayed-ramu-project/

IN a bold step towards global climate leadership, Papua New Guinea has secured a landmark US$63.4 million (K264 million)...
19/07/2025

IN a bold step towards global climate leadership, Papua New Guinea has secured a landmark US$63.4 million (K264 million) from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) — a transformative investment that puts people and forests at the heart of the country’s climate future.

Announced during the 42nd GCF Board Meeting, hosted for the first time in the Pacific in Port Moresby, the funding represents a historic milestone for PNG. It marks the country’s first-ever single-country project approved under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) framework — a UN-backed initiative that rewards forested developing countries for conserving trees and ecosystems while promoting sustainable development.

- Nationalpics by KENNEDY BANI.

Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/png-secures-landmark-climate-deal/

IN 2017, something big was happening around the world.People were talking about a new kind of money. This money was not ...
19/07/2025

IN 2017, something big was happening around the world.

People were talking about a new kind of money. This money was not made of coins or paper. It was the digital money called Bitcoin and it lived on the internet.

Kepa Wagi, a young man from Mt Hagen, heard about Bitcoin from a friend. He was 25 years old and wanted to make money to help his family.

Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/lessons-from-2017-crypto-bubble/

WHEN we hear the word “grooming,” many people in Papua New Guinea think of brushing hair or dressing well. But online gr...
19/07/2025

WHEN we hear the word “grooming,” many people in Papua New Guinea think of brushing hair or dressing well. But online grooming is something very different and very dangerous.

Online grooming is when someone, usually an adult, uses the internet or a phone to build a relationship with a child or teenager. The goal is to gain the child’s trust and later abuse or exploit them, either emotionally, sexually, or financially.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/online-groominga-hidden-danger/

SUNE, then known as Noketep, belonged to the Faiwol cultural group from around Olsobip but fled north to Telefomin with ...
19/07/2025

SUNE, then known as Noketep, belonged to the Faiwol cultural group from around Olsobip but fled north to Telefomin with an uncle, Tablaninat, after his father had been killed in a tribal fight.

He was ‘adopted’ by Nilak, one of the carriers from the Chimbu area, on the epic Hagen-Sepik patrol of 1938-39. He took Nilak’s father’s name, Sune, and used it for the rest of his ‘new’ life.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/sune-the-telefomin-interpreter/

THE story of modern Papua New Guinea is carried forth by not so much the international corporations and investors, but b...
19/07/2025

THE story of modern Papua New Guinea is carried forth by not so much the international corporations and investors, but by local entrepreneurs—men and women who sacrificed many nights’ sleep and comfort of a fortnightly salary to pursue the calling of start their own businesses.

And over the years, we have seen this story through names such as late Jacob Luke and the Mapai Group of Companies, IPI Group, Kuima Security Service, Pacific Corporate Security, or in technology companies owned and operated by young Papua New Guineans like NiuNet.com. These are heroes that our forefathers wished for when they brought us the independence.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/coding-tech-firm-grows-in-stature/

THE National Polytechnic Institute of Papua New Guinea (NPIPNG) in Lae recently concluded a highly impactful two-day man...
19/07/2025

THE National Polytechnic Institute of Papua New Guinea (NPIPNG) in Lae recently concluded a highly impactful two-day managerial leadership training designed to uplift and transform the leadership skills of its academic staff.

Conducted from June 1 to 2 at the Department of Business Studies Lecture Hall, the course served as a milestone in the institute’s ongoing commitment to professional development and leadership excellence.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/educators-learn-leadership-skills/

FIRST, you wake up and feel unwell one morning.You think it is the flu, or influenza. After a day or two, the chest pain...
19/07/2025

FIRST, you wake up and feel unwell one morning.

You think it is the flu, or influenza. After a day or two, the chest pains start.

You know, something is not right. Then your appetite diminishes. You sleep, but you cannot rest.

So, you go to the clinic, and the nurse runs the stethoscope over the back of your chest. On both sides.

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Read More: https://www.thenational.com.pg/a-sick-persons-blank-and-creative-moments/

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