They did not enter PNG and do not remain in PNG on their own accord.
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However, he said negotiations continued with PNG about resettling the men within PNG or at a third country.
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The PNG LNG Project is a 6.9 million ton per annum integrated LNG project operated by ExxonMobil PNG.
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Exxon Mobil's PNG spokesman said disccusions with the PNG government were ongoing and an agreement was needed before decisions could be made on preliminary engineering and design for the expansion of its PNG LNG plant.
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Papua New Guinea is home to the $19 billion PNG LNG Project, which is operated by ExxonMobil PNG Limited.
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"(PNG Prime Minister) Peter O'Neill sees APEC as putting PNG on the world stage," a British official told Reuters.
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About 40 police officers and 1903 PNG immigration officials went to the center on Thursday, Dominic Kakas, Chief Superintendent of PNG Police told CNN.
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Oil Search has a 29 percent stake in the PNG LNG project and also resumed operations at its Kutubu field in PNG earlier this month.
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The Australian and PNG governments announced last year the center would close, following a PNG Supreme Court ruling that the men were being deprived of their personal liberty.
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PNG Red Cross, provincial governments, provincial disaster centres and the Salvation Army have taken emergency supplies to the shelters, IFRC PNG head Udaya Regmi told Reuters on Sunday.
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Last year PNG prime minister Peter O'Neill announced the Manus Island detention centre will close in the wake of a PNG Supreme Court ruling that it was illegal.
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The move is also possible as ExxonMobil PNG, operator of the PNG LNG joint venture, said in February that a study showed that the likely technically recoverable natural gas from all PNG LNG fields is 11.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf), up a quarter from an earlier assessment of 9.2 tcf.
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Oil Search, a partner in both Papua LNG and ExxonMobil's PNG LNG, said on Tuesday it expects to be able to fund its share of any new PNG developments.
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"All of the tribes in PNG have had contact with the modern world to one degree or another," says Jonathan Claussen, an American linguist-cum-explorer who roams PNG.
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"As a precaution, ExxonMobil PNG Limited has shut in its Hides Gas Conditioning Plant to assess any damages to its facilities," ExxonMobil's PNG spokeswoman said in an email to Reuters.
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But Australia has a "moral responsibility" to help "given that the asylum-seekers were Australia-bound when they were re-directed to PNG for PNG assistance to process their refugee status".
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has said he wants to finalise an agreement on the LNG expansion before the Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation (APEC) summit in PNG in November, Botten said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea (PNG) will close an Australian immigration detention center on an island after the PNG Supreme Court declared detention there unlawful, PNG's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, said on Wednesday.
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It shows that in those years since, more Bougainvillean people who perhaps 15 or 20 years ago would have been more inclined towards staying within PNG now see their future lies outside PNG.
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Neither Australian nor PNG have released details of the agreement.
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Png says he didn't think too hard about that scene.
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The PNG government has neglected basic services for its people.
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Exxon Mobil in PNG was not immediately available for comment.
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Exxon Mobil's PNG spokesman was not immediately available to comment.
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Oil Search, a partner in both Papua LNG and PNG LNG, said all parties were "aligned on the need to ensure that new LNG developments in PNG remain competitive with other new LNG projects worldwide".
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PNG says it has held up its end of the deal.
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POLITICAL TRANSITIONS are rarely plain sailing in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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The PNG government also said it had sent disaster assessment teams.
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And the printer now supports PNG files as well as JPEG.
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Australia has yet to award any contract for the PNG cable.
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He said polling was expected to finish across PNG on Monday.
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PNG has in recent years turned increasingly to China for financing.
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The men have repeatedly said they would not move to the transit camps because they feared PNG residents on the island may attack, or that the will be resettled elsewhere in PNG or another developing nation.
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To extend liquids storage in the liquids export system, Oil Search said it curtailed production from Oil Search-operated oil fields, while Exxon Mobil Corp, operator of the PNG LNG project, partially reduced PNG LNG production.
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Woodside Petroleum was rebuffed in a bid for PNG LNG partner Oil Search Ltd two years ago, while ExxonMobil swallowed another PNG player, InterOil, this year, after trumping a bid from Total SA and Oil Search.
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The company said its condensate handling facilities, part of the giant PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, were also ready to receive PNG LNG condensate once production at the Hides gas conditioning plant comes back on stream.
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"It has been the longstanding position of this Government to work with PNG to close Manus and support those people as they transition into PNG or return to their country of origin," he said in a statement.
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But on Friday Sawari was arrested in Fiji and placed on a plane back to PNG, according to the sources, a friend of his in detention in PNG, and an aid worker who has worked with him.
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Every year, hundreds of suspected witches and sorcerers are killed in PNG.
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The eight-week estimate for restarting PNG LNG was preliminary, he said.
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Australian and PNG government representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
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Exxon Mobil, operator and marketer of PNG LNG, also declined to comment.
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The other one is on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Australian officials are now preparing to travel to PNG for emergency talks.
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His party appears well financed, and elections in PNG are always unpredictable.
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Then, the images were transferred off and converted from HEX to PNG.
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You can export the results in JPG and PNG format as needed.
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And today there are a lot of American brands: Apple, PNG, Starbucks.
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The organization also said PNG police had extorted bribes from some refugees.
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Two PNG government-linked entities and Australia's Santos Ltd hold smaller stakes.
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PNG is the biggest contributor, setting aside 18.7 million kina ($5.4 million).
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Marketing for PNG LNG is handled by ExxonMobil for all the partners.
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"As I have said, and as the Australian government has consistently acted, we will work with our PNG partners to address the issues raised by the Supreme Court of PNG," Dutton said in a statement after the announcement.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea (PNG) will uphold its agreement with China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to build its internet infrastructure, a PNG government minister said on Monday, dismissing offers from Western countries to take on the work.
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Australian and PNG government spokesman were not immediately available for comment on Friday.
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One nigga was PNG, one nigga was Dropbox, and I was just JPEG.
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PNG Police charged two men in relation to the assault, the spokeswoman said.
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PNG will also reportedly explore creating its own, government-run alternative to Facebook.
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Australian and PNG authorities did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
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Thousands of students across PNG have been protesting and boycotting classes for weeks.
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Many images and graphics, however, come in a PNG format — most notably screenshots.
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The Kumul unloaded an LNG cargo at the PNG terminal on April 4.
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Corrine Png, CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective, said in a Feb.
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The closure will hit airlines, according to Corrine Png, CEO of Crucial Perspective.
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Png told Harper's Bazaar Singapore that it took some prep for the role.
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PNG-ing a spy has repercussions that impact other government agencies and missions.
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BOUGAINVILLE VICE PRESIDENT SAYS PNG GOVERNMENT WILL NOT GET "SPECIAL TREATMENT" UNDER PROPOSAL
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"Convincing Trump to travel to PNG, in particular, was likely impossible," she said.
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But the men have refused to leave, even after power and water were cut and food supplies dwindled, saying they feared PNG residents on the island may attack, or that the will be resettled elsewhere in PNG or another developing nation.
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"It has been the longstanding position of this government to work with PNG to close Manus and support those people as they transition into PNG or return to their country of origin," Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton said on Wednesday.
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The PNG LNG project is considered one of the world's best-performing LNG operations, having started exports in 2014 ahead of schedule, despite the challenge of drilling for gas and building a plant and pipeline in the remote jungle of PNG.
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Santos is a foundation partner and holds a 13.5 percent interest in PNG LNG.
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Other countries will wonder how the leadership change in PNG will affect their interests.
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A spokesman for PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill was not immediately available for comment.
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The PNG LNG project is considered one of the world's best-performing LNG operations.
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"However, Grab will be careful not to step on the regulators' toes," Png added.
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Should Australia fail to strike a deal, PNG could forge closer ties with China.
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Exxon Mobil Corp, operator of the PNG LNG project, had also partially reduced production.
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PNG Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato said his country did not need to pick sides.
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That detention breaches the right to personal liberty in the constitution of Papua New Guinea (PNG), according to the country's Supreme Court, which ordered the PNG and Australian governments to immediately take steps to end the detention of asylum seekers on the island.
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The focus for Oil Search in the second half will be on talks with its partners in PNG LNG and Papua LNG, led by France's Total SA, and the Papua New Guinean government about a $12 billion expansion of the PNG LNG plant.
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Putting PNG on the map For the PNG government, APEC seems like a silver bullet to many of its problems, raising the country's profile and helping it break free of a reputation for chaos and danger that has dogged it for decades.
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"We have had no indications that the PNG LNG pipeline has sustained damage and will be undertaking a full visual inspection of the pipeline right of way as part of our ongoing assessments," ExxonMobil's PNG spokeswoman said in an email to Reuters.
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The PNG and Australian governments, the Red Cross and Care International have all provided aid.
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Plus, all assets come in a variety of popular formats, including PSD, AI, SV, & PNG.
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Dutton suggested one option was to transfer those held on PNG to the Nauru facility.
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Rallies like this have taken place across PNG since April 20th, when campaign season began.
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The supreme court in PNG recently declared the camp there illegal and ordered it closed.
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Most politics in PNG is local: the population of 603m people speak nearly 850 languages.
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The Australian and PNG governments then announced the center would be closed on October 31.
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The PNG investigation comes after the loan was also scrutinized by the PNG's Ombudsman Commission.
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A PNG, for example, might have an alpha channel, whereas a JPG most definitely won't.
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PNG immigration and police officials did not return telephone calls from Reuters to seek comment.
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It may have something to do with how metadata in PNG files is laid out.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Iranian refugee bound for Australia, who was sent to a controversial asylum camp in Papua New Guinea (PNG), fled to Fiji and was then deported back again to PNG, has now been charged with using false documents, police said on Sunday.
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Elk-Antelope gas could also be used, at least initially, to feed ExxonMobil's PNG LNG project.
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Sawari fled PNG for Fiji due to homelessness and safety fears, he told Reuters last week.
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Humanitarian groups have urged PNG to show compassion for Sawari amid fears for his mental health.
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Communities in sprawling, resources-rich PNG have at times opposed decisions made by the central government.
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PNG was the world's 14th largest gold producer in 2018, according to the World Gold Council.
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Layers can also be exported as folders of PNG files and multiple pages of a PDF.
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But Png, who's also Temasek's head of financial services, warned that investment returns may be affected.
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More supply is expected to emerge from PNG and Russia's Sakhalin II plant, several sources said.
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The Qingdao LNG terminal is owned by Sinopec, also a long-term buyer of PNG LNG.
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Humanitarian groups urged PNG authorities to show compassion for Sawari, amid fears for his mental health.
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In PNG, which suffers from high unemployment, for instance, the hostility was towards Chinese business owners.
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The PNG LNG plant was recently restarted after a major earthquake triggered a shutdown in February.
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Any deal that boosts the prospects for PNG LNG will also be good for Oil Search.
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Australia spent about $1.1 billion Australian dollars between 2014 and 2015 on the two PNG centers.
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Shane McLeod: I think it would be hard for PNG to do that at this point.
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The referendum will decide whether Bougainville becomes an independent nation or has greater autonomy within PNG.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived to great fanfare on Thursday and was feted by PNG officials.
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Australia has previously said it was "partnering" with PNG to showcase trade, tourism and investment opportunities.
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Total's Elk and Antelope fields, new gas from PNG LNG fields and P'nyang are set to feed gas into three new processing units at PNG LNG, roughly doubling its output to 16 million tonnes a year, at a cost of around $13 billion, according to analysts.
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Pence said the United States would partner with Australia and PNG on the Manus Island port project.
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Airline insurance usually covers physical damage to aircraft from ash but not the lost revenue, Png said.
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Thousands of students across PNG have been protesting and boycotting classes for weeks amid growing political unrest.
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The result last year was hurt by a shut down of PNG LNG following a major earthquake.
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Others worry about such producers as Papua New Guinea (PNG), China's largest single source of tropical wood.
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Data encoded with FontCode can also endure across any image-preserving digital format, like PDF or PNG.
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However, May's decision to PNG nearly two-dozen diplomats, while a good first step, is just that.
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Both the Solomon Islands and PNG have adopted laws to strengthen party discipline and thus end instability.
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Corruption, which has plagued PNG for decades, has also acted a lightening rod for anti-O'Neill supporters.
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Unless you change the name, it may be hard to tell the JPEG from the PNG file.
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape visited the Ulawun refuge shelters in West New Britain province on Sunday.
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On Sunday, as he left the PNG capital of Port Moresby, he listed U.S. differences with China.
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Australia's Santos Ltd, which recently rebuffed a $7.2 billion takeover approach, is also a partner in PNG LNG.
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He said he wanted to turn PNG into the "richest black nation" on earth over the next decade.
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A geopolitical contest is playing out in one of the world's least developed countries —Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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PNG has some 0003m people and around 850 languages, so the wantok is something akin to a clan.
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And once a project is finished, it can be shared with the team as a PNG or PDF.
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"It's true, though, I don't recall a recent movie that showed an Asian man like that," said Png.
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ExxonMobil Corp holds a 33.2 percent stake in PNG LNG, while Oil Search has a 29 percent interest.
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PNG also hosts significant gold mines operated by Newcrest Mining and, separately, Barrick Gold and Zijin Mining Group.
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PNG has signed the relevant UN refugee conventions, meaning that in theory asylum seekers could be settled there.
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And that allows you to change the dimensions of the pictures and add little png files and stuff.
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With about 800 different languages spoken on PNG, it's difficult to get prevention and treatment literature, she said.
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The PNG may also hinder diplomatic efforts that may be in progress with the country through other channels.
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Tensions between the detainees and the PNG army have run high since April, when soldiers allegedly shot at detainees.
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Mori said that PNG would also consider pegging its currency, the kina, to gold, rather than the U.S. dollar.
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First, the firm has had substantial contractual trouble with the government of PNG, in whose territorial waters Solwara sits.
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Step 24000 – Upload your Design Save as a PNG and upload the file on Snapchat's On Demand Geofilter page.
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The supreme court said on November 7th that responsibility for the asylum-seekers' future welfare "falls squarely" on PNG.
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Disagreement over the future of multilateral trade was a sticking point, PNG Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato told Reuters earlier.
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"This input is invaluable in conveying perspectives of everyday PNG, that may not be as accessible elsewhere," she says.
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PNG plans to use the proceeds to refinance existing public debt as well as funding infrastructure and development projects.
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Australia's response has been unusually subdued, which many attribute to its desire to keep the government of PNG onside.
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In PNG they encouraged a proliferation of microparties; in the Solomon Islands politicians simply adjusted by running as independents.
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ExxonMobil and Total both have LNG projects elsewhere that could take priority if PNG politics delays them, Kavonic said.
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Police numbers strengthened Extra PNG police officers had been deployed to Manus Island, according to Chief Superintendent Dominic Kakas.
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The center closed after a PNG court ruling last April that the mens' detention breached their right to liberty.
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Luckily, with the Preview program that comes with your Mac computer, you can convert a PNG to a JPEG.
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You can change the lock screen on your Mac computer to a custom image, if it's a PNG file.
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He spoke to CNN by phone from the PNG capital, Port Moresby, where he's been sent for medical treatment.
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Priority would now be given to restoring production from its PNG LNG operations, the company said in a statement.
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If you haven't upgraded to Mojave or Catalina, you can still save screenshots to your desktop as PNG files.
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Click on that to edit the photo, save it (as a PNG, JPG, or GIF file), or share it.
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Png said AirAsia India's expansion had been too aggressive, resulting in losses doubling in the quarter ended March 31.
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PNG has previously thanked China for its infrastructure funding and aid, and denied Beijing had asserted any diplomatic pressure.
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Disagreements over land-owner rights and revenue-sharing agreements have been an almost constant feature of resource development in PNG.
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China's key competitive advantage is its lower construction cost, said Corrine Png, the CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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An annual human-rights report on PNG by America's State Department names logging as an industry rife with official corruption.
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Many locals have reportedly threatened to use violence to stop the men relocating, prompting PNG authorities to deploy extra police.
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He reconstructed the seafloor maps and quickly secured exploration licenses in PNG for Solwara 1 and another site in 1997.
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Any person not settled will be given the choice of residency in PNG or a 20-year visa on Nauru.
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For his part, Pence said the United States would join Australia and PNG in building a port on Manus Island.
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With a population of around 8.4 million people, PNG has roughly the same amount of citizens as New York City.
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"This is negative for Maersk and MSC," said Corrine Png, chief executive of Singapore-based transport stock researcher Crucial Perspective.
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PNG LNG's existing long term customers include China's Sinopec, Osaka Gas Company, Tokyo Electric Power Co and Taiwan's CPC Corp.
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An injunction has been filed in PNG Supreme Court to stop the closure, according to Melbourne-based barrister Greg Barns.
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You can convert a PNG file to a JPG (or JPEG) on your Mac computer in just a few steps.
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A total of 50 people were "peacefully relocated" to two alternative camps, a PNG police statement released later Thursday said.
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He thanked government officials in PNG and Bougainville for their resilience in arriving peacefully at the moment of the vote.
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Marape's economic programme, "Take Back PNG", has tapped into growing concern over governance and resource benefits not reaching the poor.
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Discussion over how Bougainville would sustain its independence is likely to dominate the talks, two PNG ministers have told Reuters.
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However only eight of more than 1,000 asylum seekers who have been held there have moved into the PNG community.
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On Thursday, Australia announced it would help fund a PNG navy base that China had expressed an interest in funding.
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Polio, a potentially deadly and highly infectious viral disease almost eradicated globally, also re-emerged in PNG in recent weeks.
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Faced with such challenges, the purchase by the PNG government of a fleet of luxury vehicles has sparked public protests.
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This is also why GIF, PNG, and Flash were booming at the time: they were small, fast, and built for screens.
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Protests were later reported in the PNG highland cities of Goroka and Mt. Hagen, and in Lae on the north coast.
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For Australia, Xi's visit is an unwelcome Chinese advance right on its doorstep — just 93 miles separate mainland Australia and PNG.
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Thus rather than one unified election on national themes, PNG in effect holds distinct, local elections for all 111 parliamentary seats.
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Mr Trump has pledged to bar Muslim migrants from America, and many of the refugees in Nauru and PNG are Muslim.
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The PNG project sells the remainder as spot and short-term supplies to those four and other customers, Exxon Mobil said.
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PNG launched a four-cargo sell tender recently for two November-loading cargoes and one cargo apiece in January and March.
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The Yung-An LNG terminal in Taiwan's Kaohsiung county is operated by CPC Corp, a long-term buyers of PNG LNG.
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PNG will instead issue a "chairman's statement", said Zhang Shaogang, director-general of China's international department at the Ministry of Commerce.
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Paul Flanagan, a former treasury official in PNG, says the country's living standards have been falling in the past five years.
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The referendum commission did not respond to questions why China, a major financier to PNG and the region, did not contribute.
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"That gives us the potential to expand the facilities in the P'nyang field for the PNG LNG foundation project," she said.
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Especially in the Melanesian states of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, governments are plagued by chronic instability.
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This is the first time Papua New Guinea (PNG), the poorest of the 21 countries in APEC, has hosted the summit.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said on Sunday he would resign after weeks of high-level defections from the ruling party.
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Australia's detention of asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is illegal and must stop, ruled PNG's Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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PNG after your bead-self has been conceived in fire, but I couldn't get it to work in Chrome on OSX.
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The PNG disaster management office said it was verifying the reports but it could take days to confirm a death toll.
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"This is a real threat for the Singapore-based MRO companies," said Corrine Png, CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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PNG oil and gas explorer Oil Search said in a statement it had also shut production in the quake-affected area.
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In a separate statement issued by Kina, it said it was buying the ANZ PNG businesses for PGK24.2 million ($7.19 million).
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Ms. Png said such deals could drive more regional traffic through mainland hubs, bypassing Hong Kong and adding pressure for Cathay.
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Png has said he had to work out for one of his scenes, in which his character emerges from a shower.
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In February, a magnitude 7.5 quake rocked PNG's energy-rich interior, forcing PNG LNG project operator ExxonMobil Corp to shut down operations.
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It also signed an agreement with PNG to develop a shared naval base that would allow Australia to extend its military reach.
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Production at the PNG LNG project was halted after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea's energy-rich interior on Feb.
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"I cannot go back to Iran, I cannot return to PNG, I want to stay in Fiji," Sawari told Reuters on Wednesday.
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It is also seeking new airline partners for joint ventures similar to its arrangement with Cebu Pacific in the Philippines, Png said.
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The evidence of China's growing relationship with resource-rich PNG contrasted with a more modest acknowledgment of the United States and Australia.
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The PNG government could request Facebook to hand over personal data, and the company can choose to cooperate or not, Sinpeng said.
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Tension in PNG has been high for months amid a groundswell of unrest following allegations of corruption against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.
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PNG is growing characteristically unruly as elections approach, this time over allegations of corruption directed at Peter O'Neill, the country's prime minister.
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PNG is the eastern half (the western half is Indonesian) of the large island 100 miles north of Australia's Cape York Peninsula.
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"Sanctity of contract is critical to ongoing investment in PNG and to the success of future potential sovereign bond issuances," Wilson said.
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He blamed the trouble on PNG mainlanders who had moved to the island to work on construction projects for the former detainees.
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It was the first time Papua New Guinea (PNG), the least economically developed of the 21 countries in APEC, hosted the summit.
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Marape said the PNG government had asked for the investigation to be concluded within three months, although the timeframe could be extended.
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ExxonMobil said communications with nearby communities remained down, hampering efforts to assess damage to its facilities that feed the PNG LNG plant.
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On Monday, he said PNG was not wed to old alliances and the terms of any debt relief offer would be critical.
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P'nyang is a new field which would feed gas to a third train that Exxon Mobil plans to add at PNG LNG.
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There's not really any sense that there's a large group of people on Bougainville who want to remain as part of PNG.
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Png, who plays Michael Teo, the husband of Nick's cousin Astrid Leong-Teo, recommends visitors go off the beaten path in Singapore.
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"Virgin Australia's financial results are encouraging, especially for the domestic business," said Corrine Png, the CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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If the region - pivotal in the Pacific battles of World War II - is a strategic treasure, PNG is one of its jewels.
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"Everyone is being frustrated and impeded by this issue," Burns told Reuters in a phone interview from the PNG capital, Port Morseby.
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You need to get your replacement image ready: just make sure it matches your screen resolution, and is saved in the PNG format.
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In the lower left, you can simply convert the image into another format using the default settings—WebP, PNG, JPEG, whatever you like.
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Exxon's PNG LNG plant, which exports more than 8 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, is the nation's biggest export earner.
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PNG oil and gas explorer Oil Search said in a statement on Monday it had also shut production in the quake-affected area.
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We are keeping our fingers crossed," Aziz told Reuters by telephone before the case was dismissed "We sought asylum from Australia, not PNG.
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Papua LNG will supply gas from the Elk-Antelope fields for two new processing units, called trains, at Exxon Mobil's PNG LNG plant.
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But the relationship has been marred by Australia's use of a remote PNG island to house migrants that it refuses to grant asylum.
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But if the firm does not secure a fresh infusion of cash, its machines may never venture further than a dock in PNG.
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PNG has turned increasingly to China for financing in recent years and China forged a particularly strong relationship with Marape's predecessor, Peter O'Neill.
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Attempting suicide is a crime in Papua New Guinea, and the detention centers are managed by PNG and Nauru on behalf of Australia.
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A backlash over wastefulness when PNG ordered 40 Maserati cars to ferry world leaders around during the APEC meeting was swift and strong.
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PNG has total foreign debt of $2.5 billion, with almost $590 million owed to China, making it China's biggest debtor among Pacific islands.
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape's office said last week that he had asked China to refinance the 13 billion kina ($7.8 billion) debt.
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The project will help feed an expansion of Exxon's PNG LNG plant, in which Australia's Oil Search and Santos Ltd are also stakeholders.
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" Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Tuesday that PNG had provided alternative accommodation for the men, with "food, water, electricity and medical services.
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Within the next 2503 hours the PNG police plan to remove the asylum seekers by force, shifting them to another still incomplete facility.
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Papua New Guinea security forces are in the area and are also investigating, ExxonMobil PNG, a wholly owned unit of ExxonMobil Corp, said.
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For an interactive graphic: here Graphic: Slovak election polls png, here Reporting by Robert Muller; Graphics by Jason Hovet; Editing by Alexandra Hudson
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However, Png said she is confident that AirAsia's earnings will improve from the fourth quarter of this year onward as capacity pressure eases.
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PNG, a country rich in natural gas, crude oil, gold and copper, among other commodities, has fallen into large budget deficits in recent years.
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Those not accepted by the United States would likely be resettled in PNG or in another developing country, dashing hopes of coming to Australia.
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Before the quake, the PNG LNG project had been producing at around 20 percent above its rated capacity of 6.9 million tonnes a year.
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ABOUT 22017 asylum-seekers barricaded themselves inside a detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), after it closed on October 31st.
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The month sans-Facebook will reportedly allow police to find criminals utilizing Facebook, while the PNG government considers the role of Facebook in society.
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Earlier this month, Australia said it would help PNG develop a naval base, beating out China as a possible partner for the port development.
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Exxon's PNG LNG export plant was shut in late February after a powerful earthquake disrupted feed-gas supplies from the gas-producing Highlands region.
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Last year's earthquake which forced a shutdown of PNG LNG dented the government's take from the project more than Exxon had expected it would.
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Earlier this month, Australia said it would help PNG develop a naval base, beating out China as a possible partner for the port development.
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The deal will take the $19 billion PNG LNG project's total contracted LNG volumes to about 7.9 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), it said.
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"Dialogue is ongoing with the PNG government to conclude the required gas agreement for the P'nyang project," Exxon Mobil said in an emailed statement.
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In mid-August Australia announced that it would close the camp in PNG, but did not say when or where the refugees would go.
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The eruption may become explosive, bringing a risk of tsunamis and landslides, domestic online media Loop PNG quoted the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory as saying.
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For the first time in APEC's 25-year history, PNG was forced to end the summit with leaders failing to agree on a communique.
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Regional militaries have largely stepped in to fill the gap, with both New Zealand and Australian providing training and resources to their PNG counterparts.
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The refugees who are still occupying the camp have had their belongings trashed, along with food and water stolen, by PNG police, they claim.
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As a result, Oil Search will end up with 29 percent of the Papua LNG project, complementing its 29 percent stake in PNG LNG.
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The incident was believed to have been sparked by an altercation between asylum seekers and a PNG resident, the rights group Amnesty International said.
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Oil Search has a near one-third interest in the Exxon Mobil-led PNG LNG Project, where gas is extracted from PNG's highlands region.
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Oil Search has a near one-third interest in the Exxon Mobil-led PNG LNG Project, where gas is extracted from PNG's highlands region.
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MELBOURNE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Voting in the Pacific island of Bougainville's referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG) will be held between Nov.
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The Australian government, under then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, made a deal in 2013 to send any asylum seekers granted refugee status to PNG.
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Formerly administered by Canberra, PNG has in recent years turned increasingly to China for financing as Beijing becomes a bigger player in the region.
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PNG has the largest debt to China in the South Pacific, at almost $590 million, representing about one-quarter of its total external debt.
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Although unexpected election outcomes will be a risk factor for the markets, valuations for stocks are now attractive after last year's market selloff, said Png.
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The PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum has warned that the proposed mining law changes could make the Frieda River and Wafi Golpu projects unviable.
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Xi is expected to come bearing gifts, including much-needed aid for the region's poorest nation (per capita income in PNG was $2,400 in 2017).
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Earlier this year PNG lost its voting rights at the United Nations for failing to pay $180,000 in dues (the government blamed an administrative error).
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Shamdasani said Zeid and O'Neill discussed the need for PNG to ensure that refugees were living in "satisfactory" conditions with protection for their human rights.
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The pledge came after PNG Prime Minister James Marape, who came to power in May, met Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the first time.
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PNG has in recent years turned increasingly to China for financing and China forged a particularly strong relationship with PNG's former prime minister, Peter O'Neil.
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"The risk for AirAsia is that it's spreading itself very thin," said Corrine Png, a transport analyst at Crucial Perspective, a research house in Singapore.
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Dozens of accredited journalists were turned away despite being invited to attend by PNG officials, who also arranged transport to the well-guarded forum venue.
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Together, Papua LNG and the Exxon Mobil expansion are set to roughly double exports from the PNG LNG plant to 16 million tonnes a year.
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PNG has accepted several dozen refugees; Australia may have hoped it and other Pacific countries would accept more, but that prospect has stirred ill will.
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Corrine Png, CEO of research firm Crucial Perspective said AirAsia could triple its share price if it can successfully collect and monetize its Big Data.
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China has already lent at least $1.3 billion to the Pacific Islands and about $590 million alone to the summit's host, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Asylum seekers intercepted at sea are sent for "processing" in PNG and on the South Pacific island of Nauru, where many have languished for years.
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During the same period — roughly the past decade — China loaned Papua New Guinea (PNG) about $4.9 billion, or nearly 22 percent of its 2017 GDP.
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The uncertainty sent shares in Oil Search, a partner in PNG LNG and Papua LNG, down as much as 3.9% in early trading on Monday.
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Specifically, the cancellation of the railway would be advantageous for Singapore-listed ground handling firm SATS and line maintenance service provider SIA Engineering, Png said.
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In April 2016, the PNG Supreme Court ruled the refugees, who were not allowed to leave the center, were being deprived of their personal liberty.
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PNG police have been preventing anyone from approaching the center with food supplies, under the orders of the Commanding Officer of the Lombrum Naval Base.
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In April 2150, the PNG Supreme Court ruled the refugees, who were not allowed to leave the center, were being deprived of their personal liberty.
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The PNG Supreme Court last year ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus breached the constitution and ordered that the camp be closed.
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One of the poorest areas of PNG, Bougainville boasts large deposits of gold and copper that the government wants to develop to finance its independence.
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PNG hired Barclays, BNP Paribas and JP Morgan for an offering of US dollar bonds three years ago, but that deal never came to fruition.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said people should be supportive of the PNG government's efforts to promote regional economic integration by hosting the summit.
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PNG is considered one of the best locations for LNG projects because of its high quality gas, low costs and proximity to Asia's big LNG consumers.
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The country refuses to allow asylum seekers arriving by boat to reach its shores, detaining them in camps in PNG and Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Expected investments into infrastructure projects in India and Indonesia would also help boost certain sectors, such as the cement and construction industries, said Png from AIA.
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The PNG government says that the shutdown will give it time to assess the spread of objectionable content on the site like porn and fake news.
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Png said each day that the Bali airport was closed meant about $5 million in combined lost flight revenue for the 42 airlines that fly there.
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Gas from Hides feeds ExxonMobil's PNG LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant, which has been exporting at a rate of more than 8 million tonnes a year.
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On Wednesday, the PNG high court ruled that a detention center Broadspectrum runs for the Australian government housing more than 800 Australia-bound refugees was unlawful.
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Thursday's PNG government notice said the camp will soon revert to the control of the nation's military and anyone there unlawfully will be liable for arrest.
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Exxon Mobil declared force majeure on exports from PNG in March and the resulting uncertainty over supply drained liquidity from Asia's spot LNG markets, traders said.
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Martyn Namorong, head of the PNG Resource Governance Coalition, urged protesters to respect the decision in order to avoid a further descent into chaos and violence.
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Oil Search, a partner in both PNG LNG plant and Papua LNG, estimates that around $2 billion could be saved by tying the two projects together.
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In the landscape of portrayals of Asian males in Hollywood, now and in the decades past, Png does wonder about the significance of the shower scene.
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China's official Belt and Road website reported last week that Fiji had made a commitment to Belt and Road, joining the likes of Samoa and PNG.
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PNG LNG's other long-term buyers include Japan's Osaka Gas and JERA, which is a fuel joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power.
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As a result, Oil Search will end up with a 29 percent stake in the Papua LNG project, complementing its 29 percent stake in PNG LNG.
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He met President Xi Jinping more than a dozen times during his time in office, stoking fears in Australia that its influence in PNG was waning.
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But the timing and the sudden decision to do so has raised eyebrows, and not all are convinced by the PNG government's reasoning for the block.
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A banker on the PNG deal said the transaction was not easy given the broader sell-off in emerging markets driven by rising U.S. interest rates.
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PNG is rich in natural gas, crude oil, gold and copper, among other commodities, but revenues have been hit by a downturn in global commodity prices.
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On Wednesday, the PNG high court ruled that a detention centre Broadspectrum runs for the Australian government housing more than 800 Australia-bound refugees was unlawful.
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"So we've got other customers getting used to PNG LNG product - and that's also very good for future marketing of longer term spot cargoes," Fowles said.
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Its first-half loss was worse than expected, but the outlook will improve from next year with forward bookings suggesting stronger passenger revenue growth, Png said.
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"There was an incident at the Manus RPC overnight involving residents and PNG military personnel," the department said, referring to the so-called regional processing center.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Volcanic eruptions in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have forced 15,000 villagers in the country's northeast to flee their homes, aid agencies said on Sunday.
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"We can also look at the possibility of creating a new social network site for PNG citizens to use with genuine profiles as well," Basil said.
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About 600 men have barricaded themselves inside the camp on remote Manus island in Papua New Guinea, defying efforts by Australia and PNG to shut it.
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Her husband, Michael (Pierre Png), is, like Rachel, an outsider; his insecurity about his wife's money and status turns their marriage into a potential cautionary tale.
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He met President Xi Jinping more than a dozen times during his time in office, raising concern in Australia that its influence in PNG was waning.
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"This creates an opportunity for bold and like-minded leaders who can genuinely contribute to advancing the 'Take Back PNG' agenda," Marape said in a statement.
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Formerly administered by U.S. ally Australia, PNG has in recent years turned increasingly to China for financing as Beijing becomes a bigger player in the region.
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Ms. Png pointed to the recent deal between American Airlines and China Southern, the mainland's biggest airline, which is based in the southern city of Guangzhou.
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PNG is estimated to have lost 1 billion kina ($287 million) on the deal after being forced to sell the shares when the price fell in 2017.
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"Due to recent community tension in the Highlands (Hides, Angore, Komo), ExxonMobil PNG has suspended non-essential work," the company said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
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Earlier this week, the PNG government announced that the Manus Island detention center would be shut down after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal.
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Second, the idea of using Nautilus's vast machines to carve and crush underwater volcanoes does not sit well with environmental groups in PNG and around the world.
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The deal helps smooth the way for the planned expansion of PNG LNG, roughly aligning Santos' 13.5% stake in the LNG project and the new gas field.
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"I think the Australian influence in PNG has declined and that is reflected in how indifferent Australia is to what happens in Papua New Guinea," he said.
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Papua New Guinea LNG (PNG) sold a November cargo at around $8.50-$8.60 per mmBtu, while sales of January and March cargoes fetched a premium, traders said.
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It requires the refugees on Manus Island either to be resettled in PNG, one of the Pacific's poorest countries, or to be moved to a third country.
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He met President Xi Jinping more than a dozen times during his eight years in office, stoking fears in Australia that its influence in PNG was waning.
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Crucial's Png expects Southeast Asia's air passenger traffic to grow 6 percent annually over the next five years, making Singapore's planned new terminals all the more timely.
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In the face of weak oil prices, PNG is considered one of the best locations for LNG projects, thanks to its high quality gas and low costs.
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Revenue for the quarter ended June 30 rose to $378.9 million from $262.8 million a year earlier, when a deadly earthquake forced a shutdown of PNG LNG.
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Bougainville Island is one of the islands that make up the Autonomous Region of Bougainville within Papua New Guinea (PNG) which is home to around 300,000 people.
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PNG, culturally one of the world's most diverse states (its 7.5m people speak more than 800 languages), relies on exports of minerals and, since 2014, natural gas.
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CORRUPTION scandals are a familiar story in Papua New Guinea (PNG), a remote, mountainous country of 7.7m with an economy that depends on mineral resources and logging.
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Kadovar Island, a 365-metre (1,197-ft) -tall volcano on the north coast of PNG, was thought to be dormant until it began erupting on January 5.
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The PNG government then decided to evacuate Blup Blup as well because of issues with supplying people on the island along with the danger from the eruption.
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Political instability is not unusual in PNG, but Marape's resignation from cabinet in April tapped into growing concern over governance and resource benefits not reaching the poor.
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But local resistance and the impoverished nature of PNG mean that very few refugees want to start a new life in such hostile economic and social conditions.
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The most recent controversy is a stand off between local authorities and 580 asylum seekers hauled up in a decommissioned detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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On Monday, lawyers for Boochani will appeal to the PNG Supreme Court to grant travel documents to refugees and asylum seekers who wish to leave the country.
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ExxonMobil had said in early April that it had imported an LNG cargo to the project's terminal in order ensure tanks at the PNG facilities remained cold.
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Australia's ABC broadcaster said a large number of PNG men tried to break into the detention facility on Friday evening and police fired shots to disperse them.
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The shares fell 9 percent in the first three days of trading, though Png noted liquidity was hampered by Garuda selling only 10 percent to the public.
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The comprehensive vote in Bougainville will be used to strengthen the hand of negotiators as they start discussions on the terms of independence with the PNG government.
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Once the economic engine of PNG, Bougainville has fallen to the bottom of almost every financial indicator, despite boasting mineral riches, fertile volcanic soil and stunning geography.
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Ms. Png said a deal with American Airlines could take advantage of China Southern's base in Guangzhou, which does not have the same capacity constraints as Beijing.
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A PHDC statement said the company was "proud of having achieved the first privately-funded squatter settlement relocation in PNG" with the site handed over in 2014.
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APEC host PNG is home to 8 million people, four-fifths of whom live outside urban areas and with poor infrastructure, and found itself feted by superpowers.
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Exxon and partner Oil Search said there had been no damage or impact to their operations, as did Newcrest Mining , which operates two remote gold mines in PNG.
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For a company like ExxonMobil building the $19 billion PNG LNG project, a mammoth four-year task which it likened to constructing on the moon, that was doable.
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Australia and PNG are trying to close the Manus Island center, one of two remote Pacific camps that Canberra uses to detain asylum seekers who arrive by boat.
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Total, operator of the Elk-Antelope fields, said late on Wednesday it was committed to cooperating with the PNG LNG project to maximize the value of the gas.
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The uncertainty sent shares in Oil Search, a partner in PNG LNG and Papua LNG, down as much as 4% before they recovered to close almost 2% lower.
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"The government is concerned because a lot of the corrupt dealings and activities are being exposed in detail on Facebook," says Mellie Musonera, a conservation biologist from PNG.
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"It will be a very excellent traditional welcome," PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill told Reuters earlier, referring to Xi's arrival, as he toured the APEC forum's media centre.
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At the same time, Exxon and its partners plan to add a third new unit at PNG LNG, which will partly be fed by another new field, P'nyang.
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Ms. Png said a tie-up with American Airlines could take advantage of China Southern's base in Guangzhou, which does not have the same capacity constraints as Beijing.
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Analysts say the turbulence could delay resource projects on the drawing board and major energy companies involved in PNG, including Total SA and ExxonMobil Corp, are watching closely.
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"This support is a clear demonstration of Australia's close and longstanding defense relationship with PNG and the interoperability our defense forces have developed over a number of decades."
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Many PNG residents listened and watched the political drama unfold on television, according to media reports, but were more sanguine about the outcome than politicians in the capital.
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In recent days, the PNG police, advocates and the United Nations have all claimed the accommodation provided was not ready for the arrival of more than 600 men.
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The Australian government pays for offshore centers in nearby minnow nations such as PNG and Nauru to prevent asylum seekers making their way to the mainland by boat.
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ClearView added it would provide updates when possible about the situation of Brown, who is the chief investment officer of the National Superannuation Fund Ltd (NASFUND) in PNG.
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At the meeting, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan did announce a $1.7 billion plan to ensure most of PNG had access to electricity by 2030.
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However only eight of more than 1,000 asylum seekers who have been held at the Manus camp have moved into the PNG community, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
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How Bougainville would sustain its independence is likely to dominate those negotiations, two PNG ministers told Reuters earlier, given the region is reliant on funds from Port Moresby.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Barrick has broadened the role of its top China executive and former U.S. diplomat Woo Lee to handle day-to-day talks with the PNG government.
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PNG, considered the lowest cost source of LNG growth, has been a hotbed of takeover activity, which could see other bidders emerge for Santos, analysts at UBS said.
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Under a peace agreement signed after a nine-year civil war with the PNG mainland that ended in 1998, Bougainville has until mid-2020 to hold the referendum.
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That agreement is needed before Exxon and its partners can begin preliminary engineering work for the PNG LNG expansion, which has a first-production target of around 2024.
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"These imposed fines are even less impactful than a slap on the wrist for Uber and Grab," Corrine Png, CEO of transport research consultancy Crucial Perspective, told CNBC.
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It was used by Japan as a military base during World War Two, and after, was administered by Australia until Papua New Guinea (PNG) gained independence in 1975.
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The United States and its allies, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, countered on Sunday with a $1.7 billion plan to deliver reliable electricity and the internet to PNG.
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Morrison has said the agreement to build the base was not a response to China's growing influence in the region, but was part of a longstanding relationship with PNG.
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"We can also look at the possibility of creating a new social network site for PNG citizens to use with genuine profiles as well," Basil told the Post Courier.
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According to research obtained by The Guardian, just 12 percent of the PNG population uses Facebook, which will likely mean that public resistance to the ban will be minimal.
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At the same time, ExxonMobil and its partners are planning to build a third unit at the PNG plant, to be partly fed by another new gas field, P'nyang.
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Lawyers in PNG will go the country's supreme court on Monday to argue for the immediate release of Manus Island detainees to Australia, as well compensation for their detention.
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"We expect a deal to be done probably at the end of this year, but it'll probably be a cosmetic deal with limitations on execution and enforcement," Png said.
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Update November 7th 2017: This article has been updated to include news of the refusal by the supreme court of PNG to keep the Manus Island detention centre open.
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Asylum seekers intercepted at sea are sent for "processing" to three camps in PNG and one on the South Pacific island of Nauru, where many have languished for years.
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After the proposed Facebook ban stirred up outrage in PNG and became worldwide news, Basil clarified Wednesday to the same paper that the plan was only one theoretical option.
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Since 2011, Beijing has invested more in Papua New Guinea (PNG) -- which is home to gold, nickel mines, liquified natural gas and timber forests -- than any other Pacific Island.
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The conflict between Bougainville's rebel guerrilla army and PNG forces killed as many as 20,000, the worst violence in the region known as Oceania since the Second World War.
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The World Wide Web reacted with alarm and outrange and then scrambled to find alternatives, which soon led to many sites swapping in JPEGs and PNG files for GIFs.
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Oil Search has long prided itself on work it does in PNG communities, including funding health care and literacy programs, but Marape said that was not the company's job.
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"It has been my great honor to serve this nation and lead this nation almost for eight years ... unfortunately politics in PNG plays out this way," O'Neill told parliament.
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PNG officials last week gave the detainees in the center's main Foxtrot compound until Tuesday to leave, warning them that water and power supplies would be cut off soon.
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PNG is rich in commodity resources and is considered vital in securing influence in the region, but it increasingly turned to China for finance under Marape's predecessor, Peter O'Neill.
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All residents of the island have been evacuated with no loss of life, U.S.-based charity Samaritan Aviation, which operates seaplanes to remote areas of PNG, said on Facebook.
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The conflict between Bougainville's rebel guerrilla army and PNG forces killed as many as 20,000 people, the worst violence in the region known as Oceania since World War Two.
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The conflict between Bougainville's rebel guerrilla army and PNG forces killed as many as 20,000 people, the worst violence in the region known as Oceania since World War Two.
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But some critics have warned that the meeting of regional leaders could do the very opposite, exposing systemic issues within PNG and embarrassing it in front of the world.
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Legal action in PNG and Australia has begun, with lawyers acting for the majority of people held on Manus arguing that they should be immediately be resettled in Australia.
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This is because Oil Search is already a 29 percent stakeholder in the ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG project, a share not too far behind the U.S. giant's 33.2 percent.
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Monday court hearing On Monday, the PNG Supreme Court is due to hear an injunction filed on behalf of Boochani, against Papua New Guinea and Immigration Minister Petrus Thomas.
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"Cathay will have three major shareholders, all with different and potentially conflicting interests - Swire, Air China and Qatar Airways," said Corrine Png, CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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Santos is a stakeholder in PNG LNG and is also marketing gas from the Barossa field off northern Australia that may feed the Darwin LNG project run by ConocoPhillips.
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Gas is processed at Hides and transported along a 700 km (435 miles) line that feeds the PNG LNG plant, whose main customers are in Japan, China and Taiwan.
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Exxon now needs to secure an agreement with the government for the development of the P'nyang gas field, which will help feed an expansion of its PNG LNG plant.
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Papua LNG, operated by Total, plans to develop the Elk and Antelope gas fields to feed two new liquefied natural gas processing units, called trains, at the PNG LNG plant.
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First-quarter production from the PNG LNG Project, net to Oil Search, was 4.00 mmboe, the company said, while revenue for the quarter slipped to $295 million from $343.7 million.
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Lawyers for some of the 600 men filed a last-minute lawsuit in PNG to prevent the camp's closure and allow the men to be relocated to a third country.
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"We do like the theme of populist spending pre-elections," said Corrine Png, regional equities research head at AIA Investment Management — the asset management arm of the Asian life insurer.
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Exxon Mobil is also looking to sign-off on the development of a third new train to be supplied from its existing PNG LNG fields and the new P'nyang field.
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Lawyers in PNG will go the country's Supreme Court on Monday to argue for the immediate release of Manus Island detainees back to Australia, as well compensation for their detention.
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But over time the "Pacific solution", of packing the would-be refugees off to camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to await their fate, itself became a problem.
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The present stand-off stems from an agreement that Kevin Rudd, a former Labor prime minister, struck with PNG four years ago in a bid to curry favour with voters.
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Png Chin Yee, Temasek's head of financial services, noted that the fund was interested in increasing its insurance exposure, particularly in emerging markets and Asia, where penetration is still low.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, facing an election in mid-2017, has made foreign investment in new resource projects a priority for his administration as he seeks to boost growth .
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The government will block access to the site for a month in order to assess the benefits versus risks of Facebook for PNG citizens, particularly around pornography and fake accounts.
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Xi's visit has featured prominently in PNG media, with newspapers highlighting the luxury cars he has brought with him and the 10 chefs who will cook for his big delegation.
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But he said PNG LNG had recovered well, achieving record rates above 9 million tonnes a year, or 30 percent above its design capacity, since restarting production in mid-April.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage after a potential tsunami did not occur.
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"There is no possibility of hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers to be resettled in PNG and Nauru," said Ian Rintoul, a spokesman for the advocacy group, Refugee Action Coalition.
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For most of the past 15 years Australia has sent asylum seekers who arrive "spontaneously"—by boat and without a visa—to detention centres it runs in PNG and Nauru.
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At the same time, ExxonMobil and its partners are planning to build a third new unit at the PNG plant, to be partly fed by another new gas field, P'nyang.
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The political uncertainty has knocked almost 6% from shares in Oil Search, an Australian partner in large LNG projects in PNG, since the challenge to O'Neill gained traction last week.
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"Great to see the Australian parliament finally vote for humanity," Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian held in an Australian-run camp in Papua New Guinea (PNG), wrote on social network Twitter.
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"We are confident that it is in the best interest of PNG to respect the agreements that have been signed in order to move forward with the project," he added.
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The PNG government declared the Manus camp illegal and ordered its closure in April, while two asylum seekers have set themselves on fire in protest against their treatment on Nauru.
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Usually, for example, a country will retaliate against a PNG by doing a tit-for-tat expulsion of one of our diplomats — likely a CIA officer under diplomatic cover there.
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But the asylum seekers say they fear for their safety if moved to a transit center on the island, and risk being resettled in PNG or another developing nation permanently.
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O'Neill said he would ask Australia to make arrangements for the asylum seekers held on Manus Island, adding that they would be able to stay in PNG if they wanted.
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China's encouragement has helped table tennis, or ping-pong, gain a foothold in Papua New Guinea (PNG), but it is unlikely to challenge the island's love affair with league rugby.
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Australian foreign aid to PNG is budgeted to hit a record A$572 million this year as Canberra diverts more capital to the Pacific at the expense of other regions.
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IT BEGAN, as it usually does, with an unexpected death: in this case, of Jenny's husband, an esteemed village leader in the province of Eastern Highlands, in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Detainees are defying attempts by Australia and PNG to close the controversial Manus Island center, saying they fear violent reprisals from the local community if they move to a transit center.
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Detainees have consistently raised concerns over how they are treated by locals and authorities in PNG, a country that ranks 154th out of 185 on the United Nation's Human Development Index.
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Kurdish Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained on Manus Island, part of PNG in the South Pacific, for nearly four years, said Sawari had contacted him on Saturday night.
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The project intends to develop the Elk and Antelope gas fields to feed two new processing units, or trains, to be built at the PNG LNG plant run by Exxon Mobil.
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All together, the developments are expected to double the PNG LNG plant's output to around 16 million tonnes a year, with analysts estimating the overall expansion will cost around $13 billion.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill flew over the worst-hit areas on Wednesday after a magnitude 6.7 aftershock struck the mountainous region already reeling from a 7.5 quake on Feb. 26.
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"The recent joint venture between Zijin and Barrick for Porgera (gold mine) is going to be very good for PNG," said Graham Smith, associate director of mining M&A at KPMG.
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"The recommencement of operations at the PNG LNG Project, ahead of ExxonMobil's previously guided eight week timeframe, is a major achievement by the operator," said Oil Search Managing Director Peter Botten.
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"Trade and technology tensions are already disrupting supply chains, business confidence is being tested, capital investments have slowed," Png Chin Yee, a senior managing director at Temasek, told reporters on Tuesday.
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ExxonMobil Corp is already weighing an expansion of its PNG LNG plant, which has been exporting for two years and is now producing at an annual rate of 8 million tonnes.
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"Due to the damage to the Hides camp quarters and continuing aftershocks, ExxonMobil PNG is putting plans in place to evacuate non-essential staff," the company said in an emailed statement.
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Papua LNG plans to develop the Elk and Antelope gas fields to feed two new production units, or trains, to be built at the PNG LNG plant run by Exxon Mobil.
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And Beijing was also left embarrassed by reports of four Chinese officials being unceremoniously banished from the office of PNG Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato after allegedly trying to influence his statement.
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PNG ranks 110th worldwide for GDP, with an economy roughly the size of Cyprus or Afghanistan, according to the World Bank, and far behind richer APEC nations like Australia or China.
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Corrine Png, the chief executive of Crucial Perspective, a transport research firm, estimated that Hong Kong Airlines would be valued at around $1.1 billion and HK Express at around $300 million.
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The UBS loan helped PNG buy a 10% stake in Oil Search in 2014, which helped the company pay for a holding in the country's biggest undeveloped gas field, Elk-Antelope.
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The center, which re-opened in 2012 as an offshore processing site for asylum seekers found in Australian waters, is being returned to the PNG Defence Force, which owns the land.
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Uncertainty around production from PNG has drained liquidity from Asia's spot LNG markets with buyers and sellers taking a wait-and-see approach before committing to trade, a market source said.
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Of the eight spot cargoes sold in the first half of 2016, six went to Japanese customers, who like the PNG gas for its high heating value, or high energy content.
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The result of the referendum, which offers voters the choice of independence or more autonomy, will go before the PNG parliament in its capital, Port Moresby, and be subject to negotiation.
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The forum's chairman, PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, said in his closing remarks at APEC that the region had to focus on reducing trade barriers to ensure prosperity for all people.
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It's going to need resources to make itself viable and it's going to be relying on international partners to get there once it is able to negotiate this process with PNG.
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" He said companies like former Panguna operator Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL), which counts the PNG government as a major shareholder and claims exploration rights at Panguna, would not get "special treatment.
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"AirAsia did surprisingly well, beating our and market forecasts," said Crucial Perspective CEO Corinne Png, who has covered Asian transport equities for over 15 years at J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and HSBC.
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The office of the U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands and Vanuatu said in a statement Malaita and the Solomons would benefit from U.S. support for transportation investment.
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Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific islands of Nauru or to Manus Island off PNG.
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Png cited the consumer sector as one of the investment firm's top picks for 2019, even as market consensus has predicted GDP growth for Asia ex-Japan to slow to 5.7 percent.
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TinyPNG, for instance, works with JPEG and PNG files can handle up to 20 at once, and preserves transparency—but it doesn't give you as many options or a built-in preview.
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Sawari opted to live freely in PNG in return for the opportunity to leave the detention center where he had been sent four years ago after trying to reach Australia by boat.
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Australian Green Party Senator Nick McKim told VICE News that PNG officials denied him entry to the center after the handover, telling him the land was now on an active military base.
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A ruling in favor of the 302 detainees would have ordered the PNG and Australian governments to transfer them to Australia within 30 days, a political nightmare for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Energy firm ExxonMobil which had to declare force majeure on exports from its PNG LNG project in the wake of the earthquake has also donated US$1 million to the humanitarian effort.
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PNG-based lawyer Ben Lomai, who represents more than 300 of the detained men, told the Post Courier newspaper he would file a compensation case on Monday after the Supreme Court's ruling.
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Broadspectrum's board had previously urged shareholders to reject several offers from Ferrovial, most recently on April 6, but said late on Thursday the PNG decision had increased uncertainty over its future earnings.
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The Hides plant was shut down after the quake by operator ExxonMobil, which said earlier this month the PNG LNG project would be shut for about eight weeks for inspections and repairs.
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The signing was held on the sidelines of the PNG-hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, where Total Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said he hoped to make progress on the agreement quickly.
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It said Papua New Guinea airline PNG Air would become a launch customer for a short take-off and landing version of its ATR 42-600 with an order for three aircraft.
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The PNG Supreme Court rejected an application by one of the men to restore services on Tuesday, despite pleas from the United Nations to make food, water, medical supplies and power available.
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Total had envisioned building a new $10 billion LNG project, but said it was now committed to working with ExxonMobil's PNG LNG, which could use Elk-Antelope gas to feed an expansion.
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Just upload any image and the site will automatically identify any people in it, cut around the foreground, and let you download a PNG of your subject with a transparent background. Easy.
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, raised the issue with PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill in a meeting in the capital, Port Moresby, said Zeid's spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani.
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After detaining the refugees at sea, Australia transported them to "offshore processing centers" that it opened in 2013 on Manus Island in PNG and on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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Prior to the shutdown, Exxon's Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas (PNG LNG) export project, had been producing at about 20 percent above its nominal capacity of 6.9 million tonnes a year.
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The deal follows Oil Search's rejection last year of an $8 billion takeover offer from Woodside Petroleum, which wanted Oil Search for its stakes in the PNG LNG project and Elk-Antelope.
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Meanwhile, rivals have moved forward, with Exxon Mobil launching its Papua New Guinea (PNG LNG) liquefaction plant on time and on budget in 2014, when Gorgon was first due to start operations.
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PNG, which is hosting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in November, has one of the larger economies in the Pacific Islands region, backed by mining and large oil and gas reserves.
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At the same time, Exxon Mobil plans to add a third train at PNG LNG, to be fed with gas from its existing fields and a new field, P'nyang, down the track.
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A provincial governor in PNG complained on an Australian radio programme that accepting refugees in exchange for Australian cash is "basically forcing ourselves to grovel at the feet of Australian neo-colonialism".
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday.
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Any delays in the P'nyang agreement could hold up a final investment decision on the PNG LNG expansion, which is set to double the plant's capacity to 16 million tonnes a year.
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However, Corrine Png, head of Singapore-based transport research firm Crucial Perspective, said she did not see any lasting demand to AirAsia's brand from its links to Najib's Barisan Nasional (BN) party.
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Almost 60 people have voluntarily left the center on buses that had been waiting outside to take them to new facilities, according to a statement Friday from Papua New Guinea (PNG) police.
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The site's closure follows a PNG Supreme Court ruling last year, that the refugees -- who were not allowed to leave the Australian-run immigration center -- were being deprived of their personal liberty.
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The situation was unsustainable — especially when a Papua New Guinea judge ruled last year that the detention center on Manus Island violated PNG law, and ordered the Australian government to dismantle it.
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Papua New Guinea's biggest company said it is working with the PNG LNG operator to ramp up production to normal rates as soon as practical, while the mooring system is being investigated.
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The result of the referendum, which offers voters the choice of independence or more autonomy, will go before the PNG parliament in its capital, Port Moresby, and will be subject to negotiation.
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Of the cases I was involved with, the only time a PNG was approved was when allowing the spy to remain would have resulted in actual physical harm to a U.S. person.
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However Exxon now needs to reach an agreement with the government for the development of the P'nyang gas field before the companies can begin engineering design work for the PNG LNG expansion.
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PNG said in September it wants to keep 40% of gold produced from the proposed Wafi-Golpu project, creating a hurdle to an agreement with co-owners Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold .
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Png added that Grab's estimated valuation had jumped from $6.5 billion before the Uber deal, and that the American tech company had walked away with 27.5 percent of the Singapore-based firm.
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Xi opened a Beijing-funded boulevard, while Pence talked of a 400-year old King James Bible in the PNG parliament that he had played a role in bringing to the country.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said the detention center in Manus would close after the supreme court ruled on Tuesday that the detentions breached the country's constitution and would have to stop.
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Such is the region's passion for the game that when Australia played a friendly match in PNG in 2016, thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the visitors.
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Retailing in Australia at more than A$200,000 ($141,560), a Maserati is well beyond the reach of a typical PNG local, who earns on average $2,400 each year, according to U.N. data.
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Three villages were directly in the path of the lava flow and residents had to be evacuated to safer ground, Martin Mose, director of the PNG National Disaster Centre, told Reuters by phone.
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An inquiry by an upper house Senate committee in Australia said the government must be more transparent about the operations of the processing centers in PNG and Nauru, which are run by contractors.
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Still, there did seem to be some Chinese concern over the communique, with officials rebuffed on Saturday when they tried to meet Papua New Guinea (PNG) Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato on the issue.
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PNG announced this week the closure of the detention center it operates on behalf of Australia, which has pursued a hardline immigration policy criticized by the United Nations and international human rights organization.
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He was asked to comment on what terms Osaka Gas was seeking to change in its long-term sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with PNG LNG, in which Oil Search is a partner.
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PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - A Chinese official said on Sunday that Asia-Pacific leaders could not issue the traditional communique at the end of the regional APEC forum, held in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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MARAUDING supporters went on the rampage with bush knives, candidates were imprisoned and kidnapped and police stations were burned during the six-week vote and count in elections in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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In the 22.8s, anti-Chinese sentiment resulted in riots in the Solomon Islands, PNG and Tonga, where a fatal unrest prompted Beijing to send a charter plane to expatriate around 21.96 Chinese nationals.
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The 172,000-cubic meter capacity LNG tanker Kumul, custom-built for the PNG LNG project, is currently moored at the terminal, after discharging a cargo on Thursday, Thomson Reuters Eikon shiptracking data showed.
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Png said some investors may feel OOIL would be selling too soon after the container industry began to recover from a prolonged slowdown, or that the deal may not pass anti-trust regulators.
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The political uncertainty has knocked almost 5% from shares in Oil Search Ltd, an Australian partner in large liquefied natural gas developments in PNG, since the challenge to O'Neill gained traction on Friday.
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The biggest regional economies belong to the predominantly Melanesian countries closest to Asia: Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Timor-Leste (which considers itself both a Pacific and a South-East Asian country).
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In the "Logos" section of the site, Buttigieg describes how South Bend's Jefferson Boulevard Bridge inspired his logo, and he offers six pre-made graphics for download in JPG, PNG, or SVG format.
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GP7200 engines account for 60 percent of the global market share of engines that power Airbus A380 superjumbos currently in service, according to Corrine Png, the CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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Xi, who will attend the 2018 APEC summit in the PNG capital Port Moresby, will then continue on to Brunei and the Philippines, both important claimants in the hotly contested South China Sea.
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The US Coast Guard has also deployed around 95 troops to PNG, their boats are already patrolling parts of the waters around Port Moresby which have been declared restricted areas during the summit.
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An refugee from Iran, Boochani, and around 600 other refugees and asylum seekers, spent another night in darkness Thursday, swatting away mosquitoes in the stifling heat of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Oil Search climbed as much as 1.4%, despite trading ex-dividend, ahead of a decision by the PNG government on a gas deal in which Oil Search is a partner France's Total SA .
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Marape's comments came just hours before he was set to meet a delegation of senior Australian lawmakers, including Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann, traveling to PNG for discussions.
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The company's key focus remains on expansion plans for the PNG LNG project - with a 2020 sign-off in the works for the venture which is the resource-rich nation's top revenue earner.
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Gallagher said Santos is looking to buy into one of the gas fields, P'nyang, that is set to supply the PNG LNG expansion to match its 13.5 percent equity stake in the project.
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BCL is one of at least two companies, alongside a group including explorer RTG Mining Inc , that claims the rights to develop Panguna, with the dispute currently being tested in the PNG courts.
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Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation's Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause seizures in photosensitive people.
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Previously, asylum seekers intercepted at sea and sent to camps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru were not allowed to set foot in Australia unless the government decided they need urgent care.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Workers are putting the finishing touches on a Beijing-funded boulevard designed to showcase Papua New Guinea's (PNG) capital to visiting world leaders at this month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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"I will look forward to working with the new prime minister of PNG in the same way I have enjoyed such a strong friendship and relationship with Peter O'Neill," he told reporters in Canberra.
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ExxonMobil, which shut its $19 billion PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project after the first quake, said on Wednesday its facilities in Hides, where it runs a gas conditioning plant, were safely shut in.
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" Danger Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued guidance to citizens in PNG, warning there are "reports of looting and unrest in other parts of Port Moresby including Gerehu and the Hahola Markets.
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"Other fields that we've already discovered within the project, and of course, the other projects that are occurring around us - obviously the Total project - so PNG LNG is looking at those opportunities," he said.
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Analysts say political turbulence will delay projects on the drawing board and put future plans under a cloud, and oil majors with interests in PNG, Total SA and ExxonMobil Corp, will be watching closely.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea shot and killed 11 prisoners and wounded 17 after a mass prison breakout in the Pacific nation's second largest city, PNG media outlet EMTV reported on Friday.
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Analysts say political turbulence will delay projects on the drawing board and put future plans under a cloud, and oil majors with interests in PNG, Total SA and ExxonMobil Corp , will be watching closely.
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They are refusing to move to the three transit centres because they fear violent reprisals from the Manus island community and that they may be resettled elsewhere in PNG or in another developing nation.
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In May, Australia said it would spend about A$200 million to develop an undersea internet cables to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands amid national security concerns about China's Huawei Technologies.
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A senior police official asked O'Neill, who was at the Crowne Plaza hotel in the PNG capital of Port Moresby on Tuesday morning, to go with him to a police station to be processed.
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France's Total is leading the Papua LNG project, which will develop the Elk-Antelope gas fields to feed two new LNG production units to be sited at the PNG LNG plant, run by Exxon.
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While the referendum is expected to overwhelmingly back independence, Australia's Lowy Institute think-tank said there was uncertainty over how an independent Bougainville could fund itself, as it now relies on support from PNG.
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While the referendum is expected to overwhelmingly back independence, Australia's Lowy Institute think-tank said there was uncertainty over how an independent Bougainville could fund itself, as it now relies on support from PNG.
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US President Donald Trump decided not to attend the summit, sending Vice President Mike Pence in his place, though Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Xi Jinping will both be in PNG.
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Opponents of the policy introduced the measure to amend the Migration Act to allow the temporary transfer of "transitory persons" from PNG or Nauru to Australia for medical assessment, a move backed by doctors.
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Under a peace agreement signed after a nine-year civil war with the PNG mainland ended in 1998, Bougainville has until mid-2020 to hold the referendum, which had originally been scheduled for June.
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"Trade and technology tensions are already disrupting supply chains, business confidence is being tested and capital investments have slowed," Png Chin Yee, a senior managing director at Temasek, told a news conference on Tuesday.
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As a result, a PNG request involves a tug-of-war between the FBI, the CIA and the State Department (with the final decision taken by the White House), and is most often denied.
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"We expect third quarter earnings to be weak as the Malaysian ringgit depreciated further and fares remain under pressure in most of its markets, such as Thailand, India, Indonesia and the Philippines," said Png.
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement issued out of Port Moresby on Monday that the requests were raised during a recent meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Xue Bing.
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement issued out of Port Moresby on Tuesday that the requests were raised during a recent meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Xue Bing.
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It said its gas conditioning plant at Hides, which processes gas before it is sent via a 760-kilometre (472-mile) pipeline to the PNG LNG export plant at Port Moresby, is continuing to operate.
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Oil Search Ltd, which operates oil and gas fields in the area and is a partner in PNG LNG, said there has been no impact on its operations and its staff are working as normal.
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Prime Minister O'Neill has said the government had been generous when negotiating Exxon Mobil's PNG LNG project in 2009, as it was looking to secure the country's biggest foreign investment despite the global financial crisis.
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Oil Search wants the Papua LNG and PNG LNG projects to work together, to prevent wasting money the way LNG producers have on the east coast of Australia building three competing projects side by side.
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While the referendum is expected to overwhelmingly back independence, Australian think tank the Lowy Institute says, there is uncertainty over how an independent Bougainville could fund itself, as it now relies on support from PNG.
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While the referendum is expected to overwhelmingly back independence, says Australian think tank the Lowy Institute, there is uncertainty over how an independent Bougainville could fund itself, as it now relies on support from PNG.
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While the referendum is expected to overwhelmingly back independence, says Australian think tank the Lowy Institute, there is uncertainty over how an independent Bougainville could fund itself, as it now relies on support from PNG.
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Exxon's original $19 billion PNG LNG project is the biggest foreign investment in the country and crucial to the economy, but the plant has been a disappointing contributor since it started exporting LNG in 2014.
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Australia, which has shut Huawei out of contracts to build its own national mobile network on security grounds, blocked the company from laying submarine cable from Sydney to PNG and the Solomon Islands in July.
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"We are delighted to have entered into a SPA (sale and purchase agreement) with PetroChina, which has been an active buyer of spot LNG cargoes from PNG LNG," said Oil Search Managing Director Peter Botten.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Vote counting has begun in Papua New Guinea (PNG), signaling an end to a general election marred by poor organization and opposition accusations of electoral roll irregularities, which experts said could ignite protests.
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"Passenger yields could remain under pressure given SIA Group's more aggressive capacity expansion this year, especially on long-haul routes to Europe and North America," said Corrine Png, CEO of transport research firm Crucial Perspective.
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RBC analyst Ben Wilson said he did not think a final investment decision in 2020 was at risk yet and played down the threat that the PNG opposition would seek to renegotiate the LNG agreement.
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They've had little food or clean water since Tuesday when Australian authorities handed the Manus Island immigration processing center back to the PNG Defence Force, which owns the Naval Base on which it was built.
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Broadspectrum's board had previously urged shareholders to reject several offers from infrastructure giant Ferrovial, most recently on April 6, but said late on Thursday that the PNG decision had increased uncertainty over its future earnings.
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The P'nyang agreement is one of two agreements needed for Exxon and its partners Total SA, Oil Search and Santos Ltd to go ahead with a $13 billion plan to double LNG exports from PNG.
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Oil Search aims to enter FEED in the next few months with its major partners Exxon Mobil Corp and Total SA on a $13 billion expansion of the PNG LNG plant in Papua New Guinea.
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape has vowed since he came into power in May to reap more benefits for the impoverished nation from its huge oil, gas and mineral resources partly through mining licence renegotiations.
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COPPER RICHES BCL is one of at least two companies, alongside a group including explorer RTG Mining Inc , that claims the rights to develop Panguna, with the dispute currently being tested in the PNG courts.
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Australia's ties with PNG and other small, developing countries in the Pacific have gained significance as China expands its influence in a region dominated by the United States and its allies since World War Two.
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The Manus Island center was sealed off after a three-week standoff the United Nations has called a "looming humanitarian crisis" as detainees defied attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to close it.
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The camp in PNG, and another on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, have been the cornerstones of Australia's controversial immigration policy, which has been strongly criticized by the United Nations and rights groups.
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Often during a diplomatic spat, a country will show its displeasure by recalling its ambassador or declaring the ambassador of a country "PNG," or persona non grata -- meaning they are no longer welcome to remain.
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