Legislation may not be the answer, says Time magazine.

Time magazine has published a feature on PNG’s sorcery killings. Defying its own pessimistic heading (‘Despite Legal Moves, PNG’s Terrifying Witchcraft Killings Look Set to Continue’), the article actually suggests how measures other than new legislation could be the most effective way to change attitudes.

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The Wall Street Journal’s Money Beat blog considers what ‘Exxon’s PNG Gas Grab’ could mean for its PNG LNG partners Oil Search and Santos.

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One of Australia’s leading telecommunications experts Paul Budde talks to Radio Australia about what new submarine cable links to Fiji will mean for the smaller island economies of Tonga and Vanuatu.

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Turning the soil to commence the new Taumeasina Resort. Credit: Samoa Observer

It’s been a historic week in Samoa. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Taumeasina Island Resort being built by PNG partners, Nasfund and Lamana Group. The upscale resort will have 18 hotel rooms and 25 villas and is expected to take two and a half years to build.

This was good timing for the Samoan Government, as a controversial Chinese casino project it had supported now appears unlikely to proceed.

Meanwhile the nation’s much-loved Rugby Union team celebrated its first ever Rugby Union victory against Scotland.

‘They’ve finally done it,’ applauded the Samoa Observer.