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Fascinating Facts About New Guinea. The Island of New Guinea is the second largest island in the world with 785,753 km² of land. It is comprised of Papua New Guinea and West Papua which is under Indonesia rule and is home to over 1000+ languages making our Island home the most linguistically rich and diverse country in the world. It is also home to the 3rd largest rainforest in the world after the Congo and Amazon. It is also home to the oldest or one of the oldest advance form of agriculture in the world.

Our Country Deserves Better Leadership! It’s disheartening to witness moments like these, where a government member openly and unconsciously admits to receiving K5 million to ensure allegiance ahead of the next Vote of No Confidence. This highlights the level of corruption embedded in our system. Money and power taking precedence over the needs of the very people these leaders swore to serve. Papua New Guinea is blessed with abundant resources, yet such practices hinder our progress. When will we say enough is enough? When will integrity and accountability take precedence in our governance? Let’s demand better from our leaders. PNG’s future depends on it!

I travelled to Laos as a new trustee of MAG to join the 30 year celebrations of MAG’s Laos programme and to visit teams on the Vietnam border clearing unexplored cluster munitions in the area of the Ho Chi Minh trail. One or two personal thoughts from a moving and inspiring trip: 1. The most bombed country per capita in the world (to date ….) is still dealing with the consequences nearly 60 years on: it is a sign of the impact that Laos added an 18th sustainable development goal to clear unexploded ordnance. 2. The MAG programme is big (1400 staff) but the scale of the devastation and the painstaking nature of the clearance work means that there is still much to do. 3. It was inspiring to see that the programme over the years has developed significant Lao expertise in this technical and potentially dangerous work. Most of the staff have been recruited and trained from the local villages and over the years a number of women and men have developed such a level of expertise that some have become senior managers in the government’s agency or are now taking on the senior operations jobs previously the exclusive preserve of western ex-army bomb disposal experts. 4. But the most sober lesson for me was just how long it takes to recover from this kind of bombing campaign. It gives a new perspective on what it will take to recover from the current devastation being wrought today eg in Gaza. Decisions that come out of military logic such as the decisions to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs and, in recent days, anti-personnel mines, look very different in the knowledge of the decades of problems they will store up for the people on the ground after the fighting has stopped.

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A shared commitment of appreciation & purpose by both PMs is so inspiring.

"As was continuously highlighted during the NBR-sponsored Track 1.5 Pacific Islands Strategic Dialogue in Fiji, Melanesian countries are not interested in choosing sides and are concerned with the region becoming a contentious environment for strategic competition." | Read the report on Melanesia’s unique security challenges, the impact of strategic competition, and options for Melanesian nations to manage increased attention from external actors. https://bit.ly/4cREy9H #PacificIslands #Fiji #Melanesia #Vanuatu #PapuaNewGuinea #SolomonIslands

3 Fun (and Strange) Facts About Cambodia 1. The Flag with a Building • Cambodia’s flag is the only national flag in the world that features a building: Angkor Wat, the iconic symbol of the country’s heritage and pride. 2. The Land of the Khmer Empire • At its height in the 12th century, the Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful empires in Southeast Asia, covering modern-day Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. 3. Cambodia’s “Spidery” Snack • In some parts of Cambodia, fried tarantulas are a popular snack. These crispy arachnids are considered a delicacy and are often sold in street markets.

𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 The intensified surveillance of Ceuta’s coastal waters is a response to the growing migratory pressure facing the city.