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His Excellency Ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe of Japan Visits Oro Province by  Gary Juffa  - 24 January 2023. A wonderful visit to Oro by His Excellency Ambassador Nobuyuki Watanabe of Japan. On Monday Ambassador Watanabe visited Kokoda to pay his respects to the fallen of World War 2.  Meanwhile today Ambassador Watanabe shall be visiting Orobay to look at a potential fisheries project that has come about after a joint effort by the NFA and OPG who signed an MOU in August 2020 with then Minister Dr Lino.  We anticipate a state of the art Fish Market to be built by the NFA with funding assistance from Japan at Orobay. The OPG meanwhile is building a facility that will be owned by it’s development arm, the Northern Provinces Resources Limited next to that facility in an effort to supply our fishermen and fisherwomen. Personally I appreciated the opportunity to give him some perspective of Oro culture and traditions and explain the challenges we face and what we are doing to over come them

Marape - Rosso Government 2022 USAID Launches Energy Investor Guide in Collaboration with IPA The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched an Energy Sector Investor Guide for Papua New Guinea (PNG) in collaboration with Investment Promotion Authority (IPA) on October 3, 2022 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  This Energy Sector Investor Guide is a result of collaboration between the USAID-Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership (PEP) Activity and IPA and aims to help catalyze private investments in PNG’s energy sector. The Guide provides an overview of the country’s economy, political environment, regulatory framework, investment climate and energy sector dynamics. The Guide also provides step-by-step guidance for interested investors for the development and implementation of energy projects. It includes a checklist of requirements from relevant government agencies and information of energy projects. “This is the first energy specif