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Workers on an Indian tea plantation (probably wage labourers ), cheers for the photo, thanks to the creator   We’ve been thinking, drawing up plans, deliberating and discussing travel routes that would be best for eco travel (#nomoreflying), considering food cultures most welcoming towards plant-based people like us, and looking at social issues that we could report on as blogger-journalists… so here’s a list of vegan-friendly countries we haven’t been to yet (or have been to but we were not vegan at the time). #1. India As it is well-known, it is super-easy to be vegetarian in India: it has the largest number of vegetarians in the world, about 30% of the total population (according to a 2018 survey ), around 500 million people ( says a 2020 article). According to the previous source, only one percent of those 500 million Hindus ‘are strict vegans, so the total number of vegans in India is approx 5 million’. Not bad, eh? So hell yeah, India is our no. 1 on this list… besides the vegan

 Papua New Guinea’s Northern Governor Gary Juffa has called for a parliamentary committee to be established to review the General Election 2022 (GE22) and in future.  Juffa, who voted at Kebara village in Kokoda Local Level Government, said this was an opportunity to improve so the next election be delivered as effectively and efficiently as possible. PNG’s Oro Governor calls for Parliamentary committee on elections “We cannot satisfy everyone, we have people concerned about this and that, and it’s the case with this election. “There are some disturbing events or situation that give rise to concern and rightfully so.” “People for instance, large groups of people not on the common roll and not being allowed to vote, that’s an issue.” Juffa said the poor preparation by the PNG Electoral Commission and their excuse of fund given late cannot be tolerated.  “Why didn’t they push for it earlier?  “Immediately after any election we should conduct a review and I’ve been saying this since 2012.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and Tari-Pori MP James Marape has denied he was chased out of Wewak in East Sepik province, where he and his Pangu Pati members have set up camp in an attempt to form the new government. In a statement today, Mr. Marape called on fake news peddlers to apologise to the Somare family and people of Wewak and East Sepik Province. He said this in response to a fake news story widely circulated on social media today that he was chased out of Wewak by the Somare family. “People propagating these lies must apologise to the Somare family and good people of Wewak and East Sepik that I was chased out of Wewak.” “I neither met with Sana Somare nor got into a confrontation with him, leading to me being chased out of Wewak.”  “It is very unfortunate that people are so gullible and believe the lies being spun,” said Mr. Marape. Mr. Marape said he had breakfast today with the first members of the Wewak camp from Pangu Pati, United Resources Party and National Alliance a