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NORIMITSU ONISHI New York Times Published: October 25, 2010 TARI, Papua New Guinea — A founding myth in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea is said to have foretold the arrival of ExxonMobil, the American oil giant that is preparing to extract natural gas here and ship it overseas. According to the myth, called Gigira Laitebo, an underground fire is kept alive by inhabitants poking sticks into the earth. Eventually, the fire “will light up the world,” said Peter O’Neill, the national government’s finance minister. “By development of the project and delivering to international markets, it’s one way of fulfilling the myth.” But like all myths, this one is open to wide interpretation, as a group of men and women at a Roman Catholic parish here suggested before Sunday Mass recently. “If foreigners come to our land, you give them food and water, but don’t give them the fire,” said John Hamule, 38, as the others nodded. “If you do, it will destroy this place.” In 2014, ExxonMobil is s

NORIMITSU ONISHI New York Times Published: October 25, 2010 TARI, Papua New Guinea — A founding myth in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea is said to have foretold the arrival of ExxonMobil, the American oil giant that is preparing to extract natural gas here and ship it overseas. According to the myth, called Gigira Laitebo, an underground fire is kept alive by inhabitants poking sticks into the earth. Eventually, the fire “will light up the world,” said Peter O’Neill, the national government’s finance minister. “By development of the project and delivering to international markets, it’s one way of fulfilling the myth.” But like all myths, this one is open to wide interpretation, as a group of men and women at a Roman Catholic parish here suggested before Sunday Mass recently. “If foreigners come to our land, you give them food and water, but don’t give them the fire,” said John Hamule, 38, as the others nodded. “If you do, it will destroy this place.” In 2014, ExxonMo

PAPUA NEW Guinea (PNG) “is in no fit state” to receive international funds under a global deal to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change because of continued logging and corruption, according to a new report by Greenpeace Asia-Pacific. The organisation presented the Asia-Pacific state with a “Golden Chainsaw” award for demanding fast-track funding from donor countries under the UN’s Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme, even though it continues to destroy rainforests. Sam Moko, Greenpeace Asia-Pacific’s PNG-born forests campaigner, accused his government of being “hungry for international forest protection funds, but [it] has no plans to stop destroying its rainforests or to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions”. The report, PNG Not Ready for REDD, urges donor countries to put strict preconditions on any funds they give PNG, including a moratorium on all deforestation, the tackling of corruption and illegal logging, as well as the pr

PAPUA NEW Guinea (PNG) “is in no fit state” to receive international funds under a global deal to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change because of continued logging and corruption, according to a new report by Greenpeace Asia-Pacific. The organisation presented the Asia-Pacific state with a “Golden Chainsaw” award for demanding fast-track funding from donor countries under the UN’s Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme, even though it continues to destroy rainforests. Sam Moko, Greenpeace Asia-Pacific’s PNG-born forests campaigner, accused his government of being “hungry for international forest protection funds, but [it] has no plans to stop destroying its rainforests or to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions”. The report, PNG Not Ready for REDD, urges donor countries to put strict preconditions on any funds they give PNG, including a moratorium on all deforestation, the tackling of corruption and illegal logging, as well as the

 ILYA GRIDNEFF Greenpeace has presented the Papua New Guinea government with a "Golden Chainsaw" for being greedy rather than green when it comes to tackling climate change. Greenpeace gave the award to PNG representative Federica Bietta during climate change talks in Nagoya, Japan, on Monday. Greenpeace said it chose PNG for the dubious honour for its continued corruption in the forestry sector, stalling UN talks on reducing climate change, disregard for indigenous people's rights and rampant deforestation. <iframe id="dcAd-1-4" src="http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/adi/onl.smh.news/news/breakingnewsworld;cat=breakingnewsworld;ctype=article;cat1=world;pos=3;sz=300x250;tile=4;ord=2.5029315E7?" width='300' height='250' scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowtransparency="true" fr

 ILYA GRIDNEFF Greenpeace has presented the Papua New Guinea government with a "Golden Chainsaw" for being greedy rather than green when it comes to tackling climate change. Greenpeace gave the award to PNG representative Federica Bietta during climate change talks in Nagoya, Japan, on Monday. Greenpeace said it chose PNG for the dubious honour for its continued corruption in the forestry sector, stalling UN talks on reducing climate change, disregard for indigenous people's rights and rampant deforestation. <iframe id="dcAd-1-4" src="http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/adi/onl.smh.news/news/breakingnewsworld;cat=breakingnewsworld;ctype=article;cat1=world;pos=3;sz=300x250;tile=4;ord=2.5029315E7?" width='300' height='250' scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowtransparency="true"

 PNG Kumuls today went down to Australia in a one sided affair, it was so frustrating to see the game go away to the Australians very early because of silly mistakes. The game lack the team and concerted effort by PNG players. All we saw was a Iron Man (One Man) game our so called "players"showed. They had the Australians hit hard in the first 10 minutes but could not capitalize on attack when they had the ball. A lot of silly ball handling mistakes and the hype and emotional psyche of showing the physical ability at the early stages slowed the Aussies down but not to break them off. The team lack the attack plays and arrangement of the five-eight and half back.  Where was the 6,7,9,1 combination? All I saw was dummy half runs and no set plays to carve the Aussies. A rusty performance by the replacement hookers Benjamin John summarized the unfruitful performance the halves took. They never threatened the Australian 10 meter mark, not even the try line. We won the rights by cl