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 Papua New Guinea Minister for International Trade and Investment,  Richard arrived in Tokyo, Japan over the weekend as part of the delegation who will be representing Papua New Guinea at the Funeral of Former Prime Minister of Japan, Late Shinzo Abe which will be held on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. Picture: Minister for International Trade and Investment, Hon. Richard Maru and the Chief Trade Officer from the National Trade Office, Mr. Richard Yakam in Tokyo, Japan.[Photo supplied] Late Mr. Abe visited Papua New Guinea in 2018 for the APEC meeting and prior to that, in 2014, he visited the Peace Park in Wewak, East Sepik as part of his three-day bilateral visit to the country. Minister Maru described Late Mr. Abe as a ‘Great Leader’. “I am really sad to hear about his passing and how he passed on,” said Minister Maru. “I treasure the two meetings with him that I attended both in his office in Tokyo and during his visit to Wewak,” he said. While in Tokyo, Minister Maru will also be us...

 Papua New Guinea Opposition Leader Joseph Lelang is disturbed by the social media post, showing a picture of a young girl stripped naked and helplessly at the hands of hooligans up in Tari. In a media statement, Mr Lelang is calling on the Government to ban social media platforms. Mr Lelang being angry over this, says these culprits should be dealt with by the law immediately within 24 or 48 hours. “Normalcy and morality no longer exist in this society. What kind of society are we trying to raise our future generation – why are we waiting this long, we need the police to act and apprehend these culprits,” he said this furiously. He said the Prime Minister James Marape must put a stop to his never-ending jet – legging and stop and clean this anarchy in his province immediately. Mr Lelang asked why criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists and all these hooligans to be running around freely and holding the country to ransom.  He said seeing this type of news was horrible to all decent c...