Papua New Guinea

In the forests of Papua New Guinea, the scientists found a strange new kind of representative of the huge rats. According to the Air Force, a rat has a body length from nose to tail 82 cm

Specialists, from the program for the BBC, found it during the expedition in the Mount Bosavi, which is located in the southern mountainous part of the country and is an extinct volcano, reports Infox.ru. Initially, scientists noticed incomparable rat when staff has watched, recorded camera with infrared port.
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Guinea fully controls the bauxite-alumina complex “Fria”, owned by Rusal, and probably will seek a new partner for the project, said to Bloomberg adviser to President of this country Momo Satskaya.

According to him, Russia’s companies have 10 days to appeal the court’s decision, which invalidated the act of transferring ownership to “Rusal” shares of complex “Fria” from 2006.
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In Guinea, the court held that the act of transfer of shares of bauxite and alumina complex in Fria in favor of the company Rusal is illegal,reported RIA News, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Such a decision issued judicial establishment of the Guinean capital Conakry.
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Not less than twenty thousand people took part in protests against the military leader of Guinea dadisi Moussa Camara, held the second largest town of Labe, Guinea.

The demonstrators dispersed by Police and security forces.

In the Guinean capital Conakry, hundreds of supporters of the military government have gathered protest against possible sanctions from the African Union.
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Six years before the declaration of independence of Papua-new Guinea english ethnographer Malkolm Dirk interviewed inhabitants of Papuan`s villages. He was interested how they are concerning independence, what should expect from it and what are they thinking about Australian management which term expired in 1976.

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At northern coast of Papua - New Guinea on April, 1st there was an earthquake by force 6,3 points, reports AFP.

Epicenter of tremors was in 30 kilometres on the southeast from the city of Wewak on depth of 10 kilometres.

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If you wish to see the true primitive world, it is Papua. New Guinea, the second-large island in the world, divided in two parts one of which belongs to Indonesia (district has different names: Irian Dzhaja, Western Irian or the Western New Guinea), the second is the state of Papua-new Guinea. In a valley of the local river Vashivi lives the tribes which for the first time have seen white people in the fifties of the last century. On those territories still practises cannibalism, men carrying koteks, and women walking topless. In Indonesia works special anti-cannibalistic police squad, but no success.
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The State Papua-new Guinea consists of 20 provinces, takes east part of island New Guinea and nearby islands: Bismarck archipelago, northern part of Solomonovyh islands, more other 200 small islands. A total area is 462 840 sq.km. The Population is 5 545 268 persons (84 % - the Papuan people, 15,5 % - natives of Asia, Polynesians and Micronesias.

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In the small town Maunt-Hagen missing in mountains of New Guinea, I dreamed to get there since that moment as soon as I found out about the well-known holiday of Papuans. There is an opinion that a traditional meeting of the tribes who lives in mountainous areas of island, no more than a trap for tourists, like masayian villages in Kenya. No, it is not true. The festival which is already available more than a half century is the most important social aspect. It is a question of rapprochement and dialogue of tribes which frequently live rather separately and tell about each other different fables (in this sense Papuans do not differ from Europeans). To look at annual festival tourists came from all countries of the world that does not prevent to remain it the original phenomenon.
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