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Papua New Guinea
A community portal about Papua New Guinea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the... [more]
A community portal about Papua New Guinea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands. It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. Its capital, and one of its few major cities, is Port Moresby. It is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, with over 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of just under 6 million. It is also one of the most rural, with only 18 per cent of its people living in urban centres. The country is also one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea.
the world is in Oceania, where the Coral Sea meets the South Pacific. Half of it belongs to Indonesia; the eastern half is PNG. Before the First World War PNG was divided between Britain and Germany. After it, until independence in 1975, the country was
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Papua New Guinea's most-wanted criminal, notorious bank robber William Kapris, has been captured in the capital Port Moresby after a prison escape last month. Kapris was one of 12 of the country's toughest prisoners who easily escaped from the city's ...
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- Papua New Guinea's Most-Wanted Criminal Captured (search.msn.com)
- A 6.5 magnitude undersea quake hits off Papua New Guinea (search.msn.com)
AFP/File – A young boy takes a shower in a street among traditional stilt homes near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. … Mon Feb 8, 1:25 am ET SYDNEY (AFP) – Papua New Guinea's cholera outbreak has spread to 2,000 people, a World Health ...
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- 2,000 hit by Papua New Guinea cholera outbreak (search.msn.com)
- WHO: 2,000 Reportedly Hit by Papua Cholera Outbreak (search.msn.com)
PORT MORESBY, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Cholera continues to spread in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where government health officials are now describing the disease as a major national public health concern. "Things are going from bad to worse," Victor ...
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Amnesty International today questioned the impartiality of a proposed police investigation into alleged forced evictions near the Porgera gold mine following media reports that the Police Commissioner dismissed allegations of police misconduct.
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- Papua New Guinea Post (search.msn.com)
