PNG atoll-dwellers to be resettled on mainland

• Print
• Email

Updated February 13, 2009 16:15:41

Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Bougainville region plans to resettle some 1400 people from the Carteret Islands to the mainland starting this year.
The islanders are facing food shortages as their island is sinking.

presenter: Firmin Nanol
speakers: Martin Mose, director of PNG's National Disaster Centre; Patrick Koles, Bougainville administrator

• Listen:
• Windows Media

• Export orders roll in for Fiji bamboo clothes company
• Rudd wants real change in Fiji before easing sanctions
• Growing concern in Fiji over Public Order Decree
• UN monitoring promised new freedoms in Fiji
• Encouraging sign of new gold and copper find in PNG
• Transparency calls for naming of Vanuatu diplomats "on commission"
• PM says good PNG-Indonesian relations in national interest
• Queensland remembers last year's floods