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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Régis Immongault, Minister of Mines, Industry and Tourism from The Report: Gabon 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Pietro Amico, General Representative, Eramet Gabon from The Report: Gabon 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ravi Singh, CEO, CPL Group from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | Michael Penrose, General Manager, British American Tobacco, on the advantages of local manufacturing from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2014
There is a significant opportunity available in Papua New Guinea to begin growing and using local tobacco. Based on our experience in Fiji, where up to 400 smallholder farmers are engaged in tobacco production, we know that local produce can substitute for imports of raw materials and have a considerable impact on the local economy, as well as...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Nigel Parker, Managing Director & CEO, Ok Tedi Mining, on the roles of townships and fly-in-fly-out employees in Papua New Guinea from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2014
The debate over the benefits or disadvantages of the fly-in-fly-out employment model in the PNG resource industry is, in my view, often misguided, as it tends to target foreign employees, when in reality it is more applicable to the national workforce. Most resource extractive operations are located in very remote areas of PNG, so there is a...