Congratulations Helen

Helen Samilou, famous for her bravery towards discrimination due to her status as living with HIV/AIDS has been awarded the Papua New Guinea 2008 Award for International Women of Courage. 
This remarkable woman has defied all odds and has come out publicly with her status. She not only told everyone about her status but she has [...]

Vodcasting key to Media Development

My media training class where asked to do podcasting. So what is vodcasting??
According to Wikipedia “Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the [...]

Need for Improvement in Women Soccer

I was one of the many Papua New Guinean die-hards of soccer at the Loyd Robson oval to watch our Woman National Team take on the might of New Zealand ferns. The winner of the two teams will be representing Oceania at the Woman’s World Cup.
We cheered and screamed and shout to push and support [...]

Traveling in PNG

The youth social media training with MediaSnackers have introduced me to a new site called Animoto. This is site is a place where you can upload your pictures and it will create a video of them. It can also factor in music for your folders so you can have a slide-show of pictures with music.
 Anyway… [...]

Road Safety

I had an interesting morning today. Got out of bed… and decided to head straight for work without breakfast… well, thats ma usual anyway. So I was sitting in this bus for going Ela Beach and heading towards down… the bus was going on a crawl and I was getting edggy as I was standing [...]

PNG Amini cricket team?

I watched the game between PNG and India last week. This was the first match between Papua New Guinea and India. Naturally, I supported the Papua New Guinea team…. India started batting and made a very big run score…. it was PNG’s turn to bat and made less then 100 runs.
I was utterly disappointed but [...]

PNG stun US on climate talks in Bali

http://climateprogress.org/2007/12/16/bush-team-humiliated-by-papua-new-guinea-blinks-in-bali-sort-of/
http://yutokorg.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1719631:Video:1682 - watch video
London – At least that’s how they’re covering it outside the United States. Similar to how it was reported on British TV last night, The Toronto Star, in an article titled “U.S. backs down after needling” reports the game-changer at the UN climate conference was the remarks of the delegate from Papua New [...]

Halivim Wantok Disaster Appeal

 
Today, we are launching a national appeal the Halivim Wantok Disaster Appeal (the Appeal) to raise funds from corporate sector and the public at large for the Halivim Wantok Disaster Fund (the Fund) that will support disaster relief and restoration activities in Oro province and other affected areas in the wake of the catastrophic floods.
The [...]

“I’ll NEVER forget!”

On the morning of September 19, 1994, two volcanic cones - Vulcan and Tavurvur - began erupting on the opposite side of the harbour from the town. This was a powerful eruption!  
Ash fell all over the town and was first reported to be 20-25 cm (8-10 inches) deep, and it later was as much as [...]

Real Competition

 
What is competition?
Yesterday, I was walking downtown and I came across two street vendors selling top-up cards. One was selling prepaid cards for b’mobile and the other flex card for digicel. They both sat together and was doing their business without even an argument and it just prompt me to write something about competition.
 Competition (according [...]