PNG Government signs agreement with PNG LNG project partners, UN expects significant economic growth in PNG, and National Petroleum Company to revise annual plan following oil crash. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
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Government go ahead for Crater Mountain gold mining, Bank of South Pacific profits rise 16%, study to upgrade Ramu Highway signed. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
Failure to set up the Sovereign Wealth Fund criticised, Telikom undertakes ‘due diligence’ on EMTV, and a call to continue tax breaks for resource sector investors. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
The O’Neill government is preparing to deliver its 2015 budget, against a backdrop of rising government debt and rising expenditure. Business Advantage PNG asks what business needs and what we might expect.
Power workers give management another week to respond to pay claims, the People’s Micro Bank to get a full banking licence, Sime Darby withdraws from takeover talks with NBPOL. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
More LNG trains likely for Papua New Guinea, Chamber of Commerce comes out in support of INA head, and gas-fired power may be coming to Port Moresby. The week’s business news in brief.
Papua New Guinea’s proposed Sovereign Wealth Fund was intended to stabilise the kina and secure assets for the future. But, as Paul Barker from the Institute of National Affairs argues, the government’s borrowing plan for Oil Search shares may jeopardise the fund’s effectiveness.
Hundreds of millions of dollars is being spent in Papua New Guinea on road repairs and new roads, from Port Moresby to the Highlands and coastal provinces. Business Advantage PNG surveys what the country will get for its money, and considers what is still needed.
PNG’s new Petroleum Minister, officials in Abu Dhabi to negotiate Oil Search bond buyback, and the cost of Manus Detention Centre detailed. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
The ANZ Bank last month predicted the kina will fall by up to 10% in value by the end of 2014, in anticipation of income from the LNG project. Paul Barker from the Institute of National Affairs, looks ahead several years to when that income begins to have ‘a substantial impact’.