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Papua New Guinea
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Karel De Gucht, EU Trade Commissioner from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
Articles & Analysis | Coming together: Ethnic diversity brings cultural richness and political challenges from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
With its state motto, “Unity in Diversity”, Papua New Guinea is indeed a country with outstanding ethnic, linguistic and cultural variety, resulting from the rugged and mountainous geography of the main island of New Guinea, and the isolation of the smaller islands of the archipelago. PNG is a young nation, and its diversity has shaped efforts...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, ASEAN from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
How can ASEAN assist member states in addressing significant infrastructure challenges?
Articles & Analysis | Funding the future: A planned SWF will help the government manage a jump in revenues from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
In February 2012 the Parliament of Papua New Guinea passed a bill to establish a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) for the nation. The fund is the result of more than two years of public and private sector consultation and lobbying by the government. It will be used to manage revenues from ExxonMobil’s PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The SWF is...
Articles & Analysis | China comes to market: Trade reveals the symbiosis between mineral-rich PNG and the resource-hungry Asian giant from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become an active partner of Papua New Guinea in recent years, and the close ties have risen each to prominence in the other’s homeland. PNG is China’s largest trading partner among South Pacific nations, while the Asian powerhouse has climbed to second place, behind Australia, in terms of trade volume...
Interviews & Viewpoints | William Hague, UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on UK-ASEAN relations in the 21st Century from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2012
Today the idea of the “developed West and developing rest” is all but irrelevant. The world has changed and so must the UK if we are to prevent our role and influence in international affairs from declining. Key to this will be making the most of opportunities presented by a new international paradigm in which economic power and influence is...