Day: March 6, 2020
Island girl tries her hand in fashion
SMALL BUSINESS By ZEDAIAH KANAU IN a growing small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, figuring out where the demand is raises a lot of red flags for many SME hopefuls […]
EDUCATION
Anti-graffiti steps for economic gain By JASON DOM IN our urban centres today it seems a fence secures a property within but presents the graffiti artist a huge canvas on […]
How does English spelling reflect its history?
LANGUAGE In these monthly discussions we answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are looking at the relationship between English spelling and the history of […]
Activist proposes repentance for environment
CLIMATE CHANGE By PETER KINJAP CLIMATE change is a global crisis and is already a multi-sectorial issue. It takes every living person in this decade to do something, big or […]
Prepared to die fighting for Amazon
CONSERVATION DEFORESTATION in the Amazon rainforest is advancing at worrying levels. In January, the area lost was double that in the same month in 2019, according to official figures. This […]
Getting tips from former astronaut
EDUCATION By THOMAS HUKAHU ALMOST 18 years ago, I had a science student in a Grade 11 class in a school up north on mainland New Guinea who indicated that […]
The blessing of a smile
LIFESTYLE By Rev SEIK PITOI THERE is a chorus we used to sing in church that talked about smiling. We usually sang this song when it was time to move […]
Pageant marks 10 years of women empowerment
WOMEN My father is a geologist by profession and was the only bread winner until 2015 when he was made redundant. Since then my family and I have been relying […]
How Pope Francis could shape future of robotics
TECHNOLOGY IT might not be the first place you imagine when you think about robots. But in the Renaissance splendour of the Vatican, thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, scientists, […]
HEALTH
Eating more sugar means less vitamins NEW European research has found that the more added sugar we eat, the fewer vitamins and minerals we appear to consume in our daily […]