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PNG has taken the lead again as big brother in Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Prime Minister’s Cup football challenge and propose the introduction of women football in the next edition of MSG Cup next year. PNG Sports Foundation Executive Director Albert Veratau said PNG is pushing for women football amongst the Melanesian countries to promote gender balance and promote women folk to be part of the football tournament. Other sports proposed to be part on the MSG Sports Program include rugby which Fiji will be taking the lead to promote in the region and boxing. As the say goes, Mr Veratau said sports in general has no boundary and love to see other sports being part of the MSG program. Mr Veratau who took over the reign as new sport boss less than a year ago has been fighting tooth and nail after sports almost came to its knees due to lack of good administration and other related issues. He does not want to blame anyone but urged everyone including his officers and stakeholders to co...

 Papua New Guinea Kumuls have overcome a early scare from the Cook Islands by beating them 32 to 16 in round 2 of the Rugby League World cup match played  at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, UK. Only two points separated the  two rugby league nations at half-time, but the second stanza was all the Kumuls, running in four tries in 27 minutes to put themselves back on track for a quarter-final campaign. PNG kumuls five-eight Kyle Labutt Celebrates a try [Photo by PNG LNG Kumuls media] The Kumuls opened their account in the 14th minute when Rodrick Tai left the Kukis defenders in his wake and ran 80 metres to score a sensational PNG try. Come the 23rd minute and PNG had their second try when five-eighth Kyle Laybutt jinked and danced his way across the defensive line 10 metres out before crashing right of the uprights to score. PNG went down to 12 men with 12 minutes to go in the first half when prop Mackenzie Yei was sin binned for a dangerous tackle.  Wasting no time capitalising ...