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The PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Conference 2022 officially commenced today in Sydney, Australia. About 1200 delegates are in attendance with many corporate organizations including the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) participating as exhibitors. Prime Minister Hon James Marape when delivering his keynote speech, said Papua New Guinea like many other countries in the world has its own share of challenges when it comes to investment and business, but investors should not be discouraged by this situation. He said this was because these challenges were similar to those found in many other investment jurisdictions around the world. “You tell me where in the world does not have challenges?” He said some of the current investors in the country had found out and experienced for themselves that the countries they had invested in before, had similar issues like PNG. He said Total Energies and Santos were two of the investors now in PNG that had gone through these experiences and conseq...

CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNER – MARY! NYT bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy published novels and has sold more than three million books worldwide. Under her own name, Wendy achieved bestselling status with her single title psychological suspense novels. She also writes women’s fiction under the pseudonym Wendy Markham. And here she is with an interesting guest post … The other day, as I was writing my new thriller, the electrician was here working on the wiring. He had to shut down the internet for a few hours, he said—would that be a problem? I didn’t think it would. Even though I was on the computer, I was writing a book—not surfing or emailing. Let me tell you, those hours made me realize just how dependent I, as an author, have become on the internet. As I constructed the scenes of my thriller, it seemed that every few minutes, I would forget and click over to the internet to look up some fact that would make my book more ...

Back in the day, the exotic walled garden here at Wisley was the only specifically designed display of cold hardy, exotic effect plants. However this has since been superseded by the massive and highly impressive exotic garden further out in to the grounds – one of our favourite garden displays here. That being said the exotic walled garden is an absolute jewel in the crown at Wisley and should not be missed. Why, because it is a lesson in understatement by implementing a highly competent design, clever planting and extremely high standards and attention to detail across the board! So why not join English Horticulturist Simon and Lorna and they walk around this space pointing out the key features and plants that catch their attention. If you would like to see more content like this then why not subscribe to our YouTube channel ‘walking Talking Gardeners’? It is absolutely free and by clicking onto the notification bell you can be informed whenever we post a new video.