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)
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 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)
Search is on for WWII wreckage Feb 16, 2008
It was bound for an airfield near Lae on the north coast. On board were three crew and 16 passengers including Lieutenant Noel Williams, a former Commonwealth Bank employee carrying a payroll of more than 2000, the equivalent of $500,000 in today's money. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Papua New Guinea Hit by 6.0 Earthquake - USGS Jan 29, 2008
The epicenter of the temblor was 55 miles north-northwest of Lae, the agency said. The quake, at a depth of 28 miles, did not generate a tsunami warning. (Planet Ark, United States)
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea; no reports of casualties, damage Jan 2, 2008
The pre-dawn quake was centered about 50 miles north of the coastal town of Lae and 240 miles north of this South Pacific nation's capital, Port Moresby, it said in a statement. The quake was too small to trigger a Pacific-wide tsunami warning. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Papua New Guinea hit by two quakes Jan 2, 2008
2 on the Richter scale, struck at 4:55 am (0025 IST) 90 kilometers of the largest city Lae at a depth of 47 kilometers ... Lae was hit by a strong 6. (Hindustan Times)
Strong quakes hit PNG Jan 2, 2008
The first tremor was centred 88km north of the town of Lae and was just 50km deep. The aftershock, deeper at 62km, struck nearby, 74km north of Lae, at 0613 AEDT. ... Lae City Mission manager Larry George said the two quakes were not as strong as a 6. (The Australian)
Aussie's PNG relief mission underway Nov 26, 2007
" Group Captain Innes said the death toll so far was estimated to be 150-160. Mercifully, there appears to be few injured but tens of thousands have lost their homes and food supply. Among the ADF team are engineers assessing the damage to roads and bridges. For the last 36 hours, two RAAF C-130s have been flying food, water, medicine and shelter equipment to the centre of Oro province with three Caribous and three Black Hawks transporting it to more remote communities. A navy landing craft is... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Strong Earthquake Hits Papua New Guinea Nov 23, 2007
The epicenter of the quake was located 100 km (60 miles) north of Lae, Papua New Guinea, the agency said. The quake's depth was 78 km, USGS said on its Web site. (Planet Ark, United States)
Strong earthquake shakes PNG city of Lae Nov 22, 2007
7 magnitude earthquake has hit the Papua New Guinea city of Lae, shaking items off shelves, bursting water tanks and plunging parts of the city into blackout ... Lae often had small tremors but the earthquake was the biggest many longterm residents had felt, he said ... A staff member at the Lae International Hotel said televisions were damaged after falling onto the floor in guests' rooms. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
RSL chief calls for test on souvenirs Oct 7, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Frank WalkerOctober 7, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
War dead remains sold in PNG: report Oct 5, 2007
The recovered remains of thousands of Australian troops are interred at Bomana War Cemetery near Port Moresby and at war cemeteries in Lae and near Rabaul. But the remains of hundreds of other Australians who perished have never been recovered and still lie in the jungle or at sea. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Ballots and battles Jul 7, 2007
And so the vote went on in Enga, at the end of a patchy road network leading up from the seaport of Lae, one of the country's regions opened to sustained outside contact only since the 1950s. In some places, group voting went beyond families to entire clans and tribes, with compliant officials helping "block voting" by filling in voting papers for everyone. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Anger growing at electoral roll errors Jul 2, 2007
The predicament, estimated to have stopped 20 per cent or more eligible voters from exercising their right, emerged as the main worry after the first round of voting here and in the coastal provinces of Morobe, Lae and Central. Otherwise, it seems Papua New Guinea is embarked on its eighth free and competitive election since independence, remarkable for a country with such fractured geography and ethnicity, and a record shared perhaps only by India and Sri Lanka among decolonised states that are... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Passengers bled from ears on PNG plane Jul 2, 2007
The Fokker 100, bound for the port city of Lae on Sunday, had to return to the capital, Port Moresby, where about 30 passengers were treated by a doctor, PNG newspapers reported. Passenger John Pangkatana described the incident as "10 to 15 minutes of ear-wrenching pain". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Scott content to share Harmon's expertise with rival May 13, 2007
QUEENSLANDER Andrew Bonhomme won the Papua New Guinea Open last weekend, and on his return home he recalled the events the previous week in the Morobe Open in Lae. All visiting players were billeted by locals and Bonhomme was collected by his host, who said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Giant termite poses threat to PNG crops Apr 18, 2007
Thought to be eradicated in the early 1970s, the mastotermes has been rediscovered in the township of Lae, where it has destroyed part of the local hospital ... "It is a termite which occurs in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea now and if it gets out of the present wet area in Lae into the drier areas where there are a lot more susceptible crops, the damage could be catastrophic.". (ABC News Online, Australia -- Rural)
Airman's remains returned to family after decades in New Guinea jungle Apr 11, 2007
Returning from bombing raids on Japanese positions on what is now Irian Jaya to their base camp at Nadzab, near Lae, some of the U.S. 5th Air Force pilots tried descending to tree-top level, but could barely see. The result was carnage. (The News-Herald)
Coming ready or not, the election that Australia is really sweatingon Mar 23, 2007
The two big mainland cities of Port Moresby and Lae, with their floating populations of squatters providing plenty of cheap muscle for hire, will also be a security concern. The PNG Electoral Commission has been trying to get the voter rolls ready, eliminating many Elvis Presleys and other phantom voters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
