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Asset recovery and corruption investigations efforts in PNG have received a boost from the European Union-funded Project on Preventing and Countering Corruption in Papua New Guinea, implemented jointly by the United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC) and Crime and the United Nations Development Programme. The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary’s National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate (NFACD) recently collaborated with UNODC to increase its capacity through mentoring, training and other assistance. UNODC and NFACD worked together to identify good practices for investigation planning of corruption cases and asset recovery, as well as to explore options on how these practices can be applied in the PNG context. “Under the EU-PNG Partnership for Good Governance, the European Union allocated approximately 100 million Kina for actions aiming at promoting good governance and the respect of the rule of law. The European Union stands by the PNG Government to progress core reforms to streng

CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNER – SUE!     Readers, today I’m pleased to welcome a guest author who goes by the pseudonym  Commander Pants ! No, I’m not kidding, that truly is the nom de plume of this author whose real name even I don’t know. This author has written a book, Whom God Would Destroy that has been called, among other things: “…a sniggeringly hilarious meander through some cunning plot twists and awhole new understanding of the universe as it is.”, “…The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Psyche, with an extra helping of blasphemy.” , “…a velvet hammer disguised as a satirical storyline.” and more! I can almost guarantee you’ll be laughing and wanting to pick up a copy of this book by the end of this guest post! I pondered long and hard before giving up the name that my parents had so lovingly bestowed upon me to become Commander Pants. For months preceding that momentous day I had busied myself trying on different names, discarding them each for one reason or another. This one made me lo