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16 April 2020

The Bougainville News Book 2009

 

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Bougainville Revealed

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Six Years Too Long

 

11 April 2020

Remember Buka Baby Farm?

I remember seeing posters on noticeboards in the canteen at Camp 6 proclaiming "Buka Baby Farm off limits to construction personnel".

What do YOU remember? Email me at riverbendnelligen@mail.com

 

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10 April 2020

Mod cons ... a long way from home

From an article in the PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY of July 1971


 


 

From PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Classifieds of April 1972:

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8 April 2020

Your house defines your status

From the March 1972 edition of the PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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6 April 2020

Frustrations over Bougainville

From the September 1975 edition of the PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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29 March 2020

Thai geologist shot dead in second mining-related killing in Bougainville

A Thai geologist working at a new gold mine in Bougainville has been shot dead in the second killing at a mining project in the autonomous region of Papua New Guinea in recent months.

Channon Lumpoo, 27, was shot by a high-powered weapon on Monday in the Kokoda constituency of south Bougainville.

Channon was a geologist with Austhai Geophysical Consultants, which is attached to a Philippines-owned company SRMO, and was involved in exploration activities at the time of his death.

Deputy police commissioner and chief of the Bougainville police service, Francis Tokura, said police were conducting investigations around Arawa because they were unable to travel further inland between South and Central Bougainville where the killing took place.

Bougainville police said the remoteness of the location made it impossible to conduct proper investigations.

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19 March 2020

Golden Memories



 

13 January 2020

"Civilisation" has caught up with PNG