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It is always a pleasure to read Dr. Denghua Zhang's analysis

Mr Sinopane. Am Just confused who Will the For Recent Legislation on SOE passed By the National Parliament. How / What will be the Impacts of this Legislation will have on the Economy with or Incorporateing with the Seven Pillars of the PNG Vision 2050. Your Response to this is Hoghly Appreciated. Thank you

A really great piece, thanks Linus & Joshua. It would be interesting to follow up with Khaimo on how business is under the SOE restrictions. At the initial stages, one buai cost K10 (it’s now down to K1) as roadblocks prevented buai coming into POM. Also, is Khaimo still supporting Powes Parkop after he introduced several buai bans sometime back, and called for more regulation a few years back?

Wonderful piece Akito, it is great to have your perspective on the blog. I was very fortunate to visit some rural villages in Lautem during my brief time working in Timor-Leste, and was so impressed at how the community would mobilise to collaborate on projects like WASH and volunteer-run preschool classes in the absence of government services. With more investment and basic access to infrastructure these communities would thrive. The stories of the long walks villagers would take to access markets or markets, or even for mobile phone reception (which may have improved now), showed resilience and determination.

Thanks for sharing your story Akito. This was lovely to read and it makes me miss Timor. Let's hope the new Government can come up with development priorities that will provide more benefit to the Timorese people

A very interesting article, which reflects the experience of many of my Timorese friends and/or their families. One of the fascinating things about Timor-Leste is to observe the interplay of independence on the one hand, and globalisation/modernisation on the other.

Fantastic article Akito! Best wishes from Australia.

Maun Akito, thanks for sharing your story. In your home town, if you have a piece of land, plant trees that have economic value, it is huge investment to the next 20 years. This is how we will have to end poverty (SDG 15: Life on land). It is time to optimise land use for good life. Timor-Leste is a blessed land.

This is interesting to get an overall perspective of the current progress in responding to Harold. But slow response compared to Pam reported does not ring true to my experience. I was in NW Tanna for Pam and S Santo for Harold. Shelter kits arrived sooner in Santo after Harrold than they did after Pam in my part of Tanna. Food took about the same amount of time. It's just always slow and frustrating. The big difference in my experience is that Harrold feels more calm and controlled and fair, whereas with Pam on Tanna aid organisations were jumping over each other to get a slice of the pie, which led to rampant manipulation of the organisations.

Thank you for this interesting and thought-provoking blog post. Further stories and experiences of Digicel PNG customers can be found in anthropologist Robert Foster’s blog post here: https://limn.it/customer-care/ Thanks again, Amanda 🙂

Thank you Paul for putting real numbers and confirming my thoughts. I knew Simon was the best Treasury Secretary of our time but didn't have numbers to justify my conclusion. He truly had the country's interest at heart. May he rest in eternal peace.

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