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Papua New Guinea

Type: Country

Name: Papua New Guinea

population: 5,848,951

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Papuans suspicious of Indonesia repatriation

More than 100 people who fled the Indonesian province of Papua to neighbouring Papua New Guinea have returned home.Several thousand Papuans live in PNG. Some have been here for more than 30 years after fleeing Indonesian rule.Indonesia wants to repatriate ... [ABC Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Repatriation, Repatriate, Indonesia, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Biotechnology)

New Guinean Cannibals Evolved Resistance To Mad Cow-Like Disease

Members of a tribe in Papua New Guinea has evolved resistance to a affliction similar to (called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or CJD, in people). How did they do it? Cannibalism, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.The Papua New ... [Discover Magazine - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cannibalize, Prion, Papua New Guinea

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Biotechnology)

Brain Disease "Resistance Gene" Could Offer Insights Into CJD

A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists. Kuru is a fatal ... [Medical News Today - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Prion, encephalopathy, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Papua New Guinea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Sharman Stone

Australian opposition party says Rudd should fix domestic policy first.

The Australian opposition says the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should fix his domestic policy first rather than seek to put Australia’s immigration problems on regional neighbours.The opposition immigration spokesperson, Sharman Stone, was commenting after ... [Radio New Zealand International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Sharman Stone, Immigration, Australia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Kevin Rudd

PNG solution to Rudd's asylum seeker woes?

Papua New Guinea officials say they would be prepared to reopen the Manus Island detention centre to help solve Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's asylum seeker problem.PNG Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Abal told AAP in Port Moresby his government ... [ONE News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Christmas Island, Australia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

InterOil Corporation

InterOil Corporation: Investor Relations Presentation

HOME NEWS PERSONAL FINANCE FINANCIAL TOOLS RATES PORTFOLIO COMPANY PROFILES SECTORS COLUMNISTS INDICES RRSP Centre Used Vehicles Classified Home >> Press Releases HOUSTON, TEXAS AND CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 18, 2009) - InterOil ... [Canoe Money - 11/19/2009]

Entities: InterOil Corporation, Papua New Guinea, InterOil, Cairns (Australia), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Cue Energy in Return to NZ Sharemarket

Oil and gas company Cue Energy Resources, which holds 5 percent of the new Maari oilfield, will relist on the New Zealand sharemarket today. New Zealanders already hold 40 percent of Cue Energy's shares, with Todd Energy holding 27 percent. Cue chairman ... [Rigzone - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Manaia (New Zealand), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, CUE ENERGY RESOURCES LIMITED

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Test schedule not a Sydney snub: Gallop

AAPNRL boss David Gallop says the decision to schedule just one rugby league Test in Sydney next year is not a snub to NSW fans.Preliminary schedules for next year's Four Nations suggest Australia will play just one match - against minnows Papua New Guinea ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Gallop, Sydney (Australia), Anzac, Papua New Guinea, Australia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

The Nature Conservancy Presents the Holiday Season?s Must-Have Green Gifts

Phone (206) 343-4345, ext. 338 E-mail: rstanton@tnc.orgThe Nature Conservancy Presents the Holiday Season’s Must-Have Green GiftsSEATTLE — Nov. 18, 2009— This holiday season, give gifts that will go twice as far—gifts that will delight your loved ones ... [Nature Conservancy - 11/19/2009]

Entities: The Nature Conservancy, Habitat, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Dominican Republic

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Building Mobile Money Network in Papua New Guinea

How can a coffee grower in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea get payment for his produce without having to cross great distances to go to the bank? Can women travel more safely if they don’t have to carry cash? Could parents save for school fees ... ... [Scoop - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Papua New Guinea, Coffee

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

Ginsters signs up to palm oil scheme

Ginsters Pies has announced that it has linked with the Green Palm initiative to support the production of sustainable palm oil in south-east Asia.It claims to be the first savoury pastry brand in the UK to have joined the scheme.The Green Palm initiative ... [MeatInfo.co.uk - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Papua New Guinea, Environment, Deforestation, Habitat

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Diplomatic Appointment - Ambassador to Spain

Today I announce the appointment of Ms Zorica McCarthy as Australia’s Ambassador to Spain. Ms McCarthy replaces Mr Noel Campbell who has been Ambassador since August 2006. She is expected to take up her appointment in January 2010.Australia and Spain ... [Australian Government - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Spain, Australia, Noel Campbell, Queen Sofia

Quotes

University College London's Institute of Neurology geneticist Professor John Hardy said the findings were fascinating. "It's fantastic demonstration of natural selection. 'Because people who have this mutation were protected from this fatal disease their proportion in society increased massively.' But he said a similar resistance to CJD would be less likely to develop. He said: 'In Papua New Guinea kuru became the major cause of death, so there was a clear survival advantage and the selection pressure was enormous. 'Here in Britain the numbers with CJD are very small and so the selection pressures will be less.'"

Tribes resistance could help CJD [BBC - 19 hours ago]

...whether an equity raising will occur, with a final investment decision on the Pluto expansion at least a year away and Woodside still short on gas. "And we'll have to look at the status of Browse and Sunrise as well" Ramsay said...

2nd UPDATE: Woodside Flags Pluto LNG Cost Increase [CNN Money - 11/20/2009]

...Cue chairman and Todd Energy managing director Richard Tweedie said: "Cue's investment in the Maari field has created outstanding results. "The production from Maari puts Cue squarely back in the camp of significant production from New Zealand's largest oilfield." Cue had graduated from an explorer to a production company in New Zealand, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, but the aim now was to keep growing, Mr Tweedie said. Maari is producing between 30,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil a day from a 50 million barrel field, which cost about $1 billion to develop. Cue de-listed in New Zealand in 2005 because listing rules then were less flexible than in Australia and the company wanted to avoid the added cost of a dual listing. Now, New Zealand rules are in line with Australia and Cue is returning to the market. The offshore Taranaki Maari oil field, about 80km from the coast, began production in February. Two further discoveries have since been made at the Maari M2A sands and the adjacent Manaia field. With Maari, they amount to more than 100 million barrels of recoverable oil. Earlier this month the partners in Manaia decided to commercially develop the field. Manaia and Maari M2A could be tied in when there was spare capacity at the floating production station at Maari, which might be two or three years away, as Maari production declined as expected, Mr Tweedie said. "It extends the higher production profile as well as the life of Maari." It was hard to say if there could be calls on Cue shareholders for extra money to help develop the Manaia field, but Mr Tweedie said it was doubtful because Cue had "pretty useful cashflows" from producing fields. Last year Cue made gross profits of almost A$22 million (NZ$27.1m), but it made a A$20.9m loss after writing down exploration spending in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Gross profit in the previous year was A$30.8m, when oil prices were higher. But given Maari was now in full production, the profit in the coming year would be "quite a good one", although Mr Tweedie would not elaborate. Cue was founded by Geoff Albers, who recently left the Cue board, although he retains a large shareholding in the company. New Zealand's largest locally owned energy producer, Todd Energy, owns 27 per cent and is committed to retaining its holding, which has grown in recent times as a result of cash issues to raise money from shareholders. (C) 2009 The Dominion Post. via ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved"

Cue Energy in Return to NZ Sharemarket [Rigzone - 11/19/2009]

He said: "In Papua New Guinea kuru became the major cause of death, so there was a clear survival advantage and the selection pressure was enormous."

Immune tribe 'indicates CJD hope' [BBC - 11/19/2009]

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Blogs

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Evolution Among the Cannibals [Boing Boing - 16 hours ago] The South Fore people of Papua New Guinea used to eat their dead relatives' brains as a sign of respect, passing on the deadly prion disease kuru--a relative of ...
Selecting for kuru resistant cannibals [Mind Hacks - 11/19/2009] New Scientist reports on a new study on how a gene that gives protection against the deadly brain disease kuru became more common in people exposed to the condition ...
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Papua New Guinea: Ursula Rakova Leads Relocatio... [Global Voices Online - 11/18/2009] “Once upon a time my island was a tropical paradise. It is a tropical paradise no more.” That is how Ursula Rakova described the state of her homeland during a ...
Rainforest money doesn't grow on trees \| John S... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009] The fall in deforestation in Brazil is welcome, but our leaders must make a financial commitment to replicating this successMy colleagues in the Amazon office of ...

Audio/Video

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Emote Control [Slate Magazine - 10/30/2009]
Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's par... [Slate Magazine - 10/30/2009]
Papua New Guinea disease outbreak [Reuters Video: Top News - 09/12/2009]
More remains recovered in PNG crash [Reuters Video: Top News - 08/15/2009]
PNG plane crash site search [Reuters Video: Top News - 08/14/2009]

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