PNG working on infrastructure and corruption
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is working on improving its infrastructure and stamping out corruption, which will make it a more attractive place to do business, its Prime Minister says. Peter O'Neill also told a mining conference in Sydney on Monday that the PNG political environment had continued to stabilise since the elections earlier this year. He said the improved political stability would be of benefit to the resource companies seeking to do business in the country. "We have established a very strong and very stable political environment," he told the conference. "We will soon make it stronger and more stable." Mr O'Neill said the new government was also working hard to stamp out corruption, which was often an impediment to business, and had set up a taskforce to tackle the problem. "We will take an uncompromising stand against corruption that our people are now demanding," he said. "I will not pretend we can eliminate corruption completely but