Dede Sophie

My mum’s gift package from the UK which includes many gut health-friendly remnants of colonialism lol We’ve just published a post on on our sister site detailing some of our bowel and stomach-related hardships in SE Asia: food poisoning, vomiting, nausea, diarrhoea and so on. In that post, we provided a general overview (or rather: the layperson’s ideas and advice based on personal experiences) about what to do in case you’ve got the shits, mate. Here on veganvstravel we’d like to dive into the details of maintaining a healthy gut (shits or not, either way) and soothing an upset stomach on a plant-based diet whilst travelling the world. 1. Pland-Based Fermented Food Around the World “Wait a second, are fermented foods vegan?” asks an omnivore friend of ours thinking about the fungi and bacteria involved and digested as we binge on the sauerkraut stocked in our fridge. Yes, we reply gently and patiently – veganism is not about never killin...

 Department of International Trade and Investment will be a “one-stop shop” for all large foreign investments in Papua New Guinea, according to Prime Minister James Marape. This includes large mining and petroleum investments in the country. PM Marape made this clear in Japan last Tuesday (September 27, 2022), when he met with executives of three large Japanese energy companies, and Japan Development Institute (JDI) which will help to develop special economic zones in PNG. This is a direct intervention by PM Marape to do away with the bureaucratic red-tape and corruption, through asking for enticements from investors, that has hindered so many foreign investments from happening in PNG over the last 47 years. International Trade and Investment Minister Hon. Richard Maru was present at all meetings in Japan and later travelled to Singapore and Manila, Philippines, as he starts globetrotting to bring in foreign investments into PNG. “Minister Maru is the Minister for International Trade a...