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EMTV is a commercial television station in Papua New Guinea. For most of its life until the launch of the National Television Service in September 2008, it was the country's only free-to-air television service. [1] It is owned by Telikom PNG through a subsidiary Media Niugini. It was previously owned by Fiji Television Limited and Nine Network ...
Nationality. Australian citizenship, Papua New Guinean citizenship - dual citizenship. Political party. Pangu Pati. Spouse. Catherine Jane. Justin Wayne Tkatchenko, CBE, BEM (born 2 June 1972) [2] is an Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Papua New Guinea from 23 June 2022 to 12 May 2023.
The Nduga hostage crisis began on 7 February 2023 when Free Papua Movement ( Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, OPM) insurgents attacked a plane and took its pilot and all five passengers hostage. [1] [2] While the passengers were soon released, New Zealander pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens remains in captivity. [3]
Papua New Guinea is a diverse, developing nation of mostly subsistence farmers with 800 languages. There are few roads outside the larger cities. With 10 million people, it is the most populous ...
He also created Papua New Guinea's first music countdown, The Weekly PNG Top 20, which also began airing on Kalang FM in 1986. Nicknamed "the voice of PNG," Justin Kili worked with Radio Australia and the BBC. Kili, who was popularly known as JK, also hosted Pepsi Fizz, a national PNG television and music show which aired on EMTV.
More than 100 people are feared dead in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea after it was hit by a major landslide, officials said Friday, as rescue workers scramble to reach the site.
In December 2019, the autonomous region of Bougainville voted in a landslide for independence from Papua New Guinea. Due to the country's immense ethnic and linguistic diversity, some national parliament members feared that Bougainville's departure could inspire other regions to demand independence from Papua New Guinea.
The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurrred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and Prime Minister James Marape's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.