July 2008

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Goroka General Hospital website gets a facelift!

After only one month of going live with a new website we have ditched what we had and have replaced it with something totally different

Melanesian quirks!

I first came across this list mid 2005 and have since seen it circulated making reference to Papua New Guineans, Solomon Islanders and various other pacific folks. It’s probably reasonable to suggest that these quirks apply to melanesian people across the board

The perfect Birthday gift?

Wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday

Wests Junior Rugby League Mini Newsletter

My sister sent me this newsletter as an email attachment the other day. It’s the current newsletter put together and published for a Junior Rugby League Club in the inner Western Suburbs of Sydney

Not another weekend at the “Hut” !!

Yep!

Eastern Highlands Women’s Rugby Union

Yep Full contact, no holds barred, woman against woman !!

The joy in giving!

The act of giving creates an incredible feeling of reward and connection with other humans. The saying: “Give and you shall receive” could not be further from the truth. To give is to receive!

The impact of Tribal Warfare

There was a time and it wasn’t that long ago when I felt drawn to the romance of tribal warfare. It might have been the fighting thing or perhaps how the free expression of anger towards an enemy is condoned in Highland’s culture.

How much Spam do you receive?

I don’t know about you but my “inbox” ends up with at least a few dozen spam emails a day and I’m positive that if it wasn’t for the filtering software there would literally be hundreds if not thousands!

Malum Nalu

Malum is a Papua New Guinea journalist and writer who contributes quality feature articles to The National newspaper. Malum writes on a range of PNG topics, from history to Information Technology and also Development issues to name a few. The PNG media has developed a reputation for very negative reporting and in my opinion Malum is one of the better journalists in PNG at present, his stories are positive, factual and varied

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