Marisa Howden provides an insider’s guide to Lae, PNG’s industrial capital and second-largest city.
To market, to market in Papua New Guinea
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Nicola Gage and Grace Maribu visit some of Papua New Guinea’s major markets.
In brief: LNG overtakes gold as top export and other Papua New Guinea news
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9 Mar 2016 by 1 Comment
LNG overtakes gold as PNG’s top export, number of female executive appointments in PNG public service low and Bank of South Pacific reports profit rise. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
Lae Nadzab Airport commercial area prepares for take off
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New land has been made available at Lae Nadzab Airport for growth of a supporting commercial business sector.
Five questions for … Michael Kingston of K K Kingston
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15 Jan 2014 by Leave a Comment
Lae-based plastics, chemicals and consumer products manufacturer K K Kingston anticipates a productive 2014 after returning to its core business in 2013. Business Advantage PNG caught up with Michael Kingston, its General Manager.
Frabelle plans expansion beyond tuna processing
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7 Nov 2013 by
Lae-based Frabelle Fishing Corporation is one of the major partners behind the Majestic Seafood venture, which opened earlier this year. But, as Frabelle’s James Johnston tells Business Advantage PNG, the company has big expansion plans of its own too.
Majestic opening starts fish cannery boost for Lae
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12 Jun 2013 by
Lae is set to become the South Pacific’s main fish processing centre, with the opening of one massive new cannery this week, the commencement of construction for another, with more on the drawing board.
Opinion: Fixing Papua New Guinea’s law and order problem
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15 May 2013 by Leave a Comment
Law and order is back on the agenda, with this week’s National Haus Krai on violence against women, Australia reactivating its assistance to the PNG’s police and the Government committing itself to heavier punishments for some key offences. But solving PNG’s law and order problems will require much more, says Alan McLay.
Four-lane airport highway in Lae gets go-ahead
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27 Mar 2013 by 2 Comments
Work to upgrade 40-kilometre stretch of road between the port of Lae and Nadzab Airport into a four-lane highway is expected to begin in June 2013, according to the Lae Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Lae runs out of land
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27 Feb 2013 by Leave a Comment
‘There is no more state-owned land left in Lae city,’ Morobe Province Administrator Kemasang Tomala told a World Vision meeting in Lae last week, according to The National.
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