More than 100 die of cholera, diarrhoea, influenza in PNG Sep 14, 2009
A Worth Health Organisation (WHO) official told Reuters the outbreaks began in August and have affected remote highland areas, as well as the major regional city of Lae and parts of the northern coast. Some of these areas are very remote, with little communication or other infrastructure and often only reachable by helicopter. (AlertNet)
* Disease outbreaks in Papua New Guinea kill 47 people Sep 1, 2009
Doctors do not believe the eruption of two diseases about 120km west of PNGs second city of Lae are linked as dysentery is usually bacterial and flu is viral. But complicating the medical relief effort, a separate eruption of cholera in the east of Morobe province has killed seven adults and sickened 73 people, Likei said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Natives get restless in PNG May 25, 2009
A man was reportedly hacked to death as thousands of locals looted shops belonging to the Chinese community in Lae, the second largest city in PNG.. The racially-motivated attack has received wide coverage in newspapers across the world, particularly in countries with a large ethnic Chinese population. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
PNG's anti-Asian riots blamed on 'vice' May 25, 2009
During a recent week of violence, local media reported PNG police shot four looters in the Highlands region while in Lae, PNG's second biggest city, two looters were killed. The trouble began on May 10 when PNG workers clashed with management at the Chinese-run Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, on the northeast coast, after a worker was injured by a tractor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
PNG riots hit Chinese businesses May 18, 2009
Chinese-owned shops and offices were looted by gangs in the capital, Port Moresby, and the coastal city of Lae ... In Lae, witnesses said that hundreds of men and boys had run amok and that much of the coastal city had been brought to a standstill. (BBC News)
* Anti-Chinese riots leave one dead in Papua New Guinea May 17, 2009
Looters ransacked Chinese-owned businesses in Papua New Guineas second-largest city of Lae during riots in which one young man was reportedly hacked to death, the countrys media reported on Friday. Thousands of men and boys stormed Chinese shops in the main business district of Lae on Thursday, bringing the entire city to a standstill and catching police off guard, reports said ... Chinese immigrants own many small businesses in Lae and the capital Port Moresby. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
PNG police use tear gas on anti-Chinese rioters May 16, 2009
Chinese-owned stores were ransacked in the capital, Port Moresby, on Wednesday and in the second largest city, Lae, on Thursday ... In Lae, on the north-west coast, hundreds of men attacked Chinese nationals and their small businesses on Thursday ... In The National newspaper, unnamed youths involved in the Lae attacks said Asian small-business owners were "ripping us off ; Who is allowing these Asians to come into our country and own small businesses which should be [PNG-] owned?". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
