residents alerted about e-mail containing child porn

The unsolicited e-mail tells the recipient to guard his children and suggests avoiding opening a given attachment if the person is sensitive. But curious users who still proceed to open the attachment would download a computer worm onto their systems.

Thereafter when the worm finds a place on a system, it begins to send itself through messages to other e-mail ids stored on the first computer’s address book. In other words, the virus triggers a spam attack in which the malware proliferates through a cyclical method.

In the meantime, elucidating the e-mail’s content, the Department’s officials said that end-users who might attempt to view the e-mail would find a nearly 6-minute long movie, which displays a kid undergoing sexual exploitation.

The officials further add that the current e-mail worm wasn’t making a first-time attack, as it had been inflicting the Net since 2005 during when no report of it was made, until now.

Moreover, Pocatello Police Department’s Capt. Kim Ellis says that users who do not know about the source or person sending the e-mail to them must be careful prior to opening such an attachment for it could result in various kinds of things. Kpvi.com published this on July 9, 2009.

PNG adopts One Laptop Per Child initiative

Papua New Guinea is embracing the One Laptop Per Child project as a key part of its long-term plan to boost basic education and economic development.

The acting Prime Minister, Dr. Puka Temu, has told the African Caribbean and Pacific summit with the European Union in Port Moresby that his government will begin rolling out laptops to more than one million school age children from next year.

This follows a series of successful trials in schools and teacher training institutions throughout this year.

Dr Temu has told the gathering that his government believes the scheme will bring enormous benefits to the country

Papua New Guinea to open colleges with Indian support

CHENNAI: Sixty-five community colleges in Papua New Guinea will be opened with the support from India at a cost of 13 million kina (1 kina = Rs. 19 approx.), said Xavier Alphonse, director, Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community Education (ICRDCE), here on Sunday.

Call to Governor

Speaking to The?Hindu after Papua New Guinea Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel T. Abal called on Governor Surjit Singh Barnala at Raj Bhavan, Dr. Alphonse, former principal, Loyola College, said that the Minister had asked that a community college also be set up in his home province of Enga.

After the visit to the Raj Bhavan, for which he was accompanied by his wife Anna Abal, Tarcisius Eri, Papua New Guinea’s High Commissioner to India, Frank Mizigi, director, Development Corporation, Papua New Guinea, and Maimu Rakka Nau, first secretary to the Minister; Mr. Abal also visited the Chandran Devanesan Community College at Karanai near here.

PNG adopts One Laptop Per Child initiative

Papua New Guinea is embracing the One Laptop Per Child project as a key part of its long-term plan to boost basic education and economic development.

The acting Prime Minister, Dr. Puka Temu, has told the African Caribbean and Pacific summit with the European Union in Port Moresby that his government will begin rolling out laptops to more than one million school age children from next year.

This follows a series of successful trials in schools and teacher training institutions throughout this year.

Dr Temu has told the gathering that his government believes the scheme will bring enormous benefits to the country’s students, schools and teachers.

He says the short-term goal is have the laptops in use by 10,000 children next year and up to quarter of a million children by 2015.

The scheme’s regional director, Michael Hutak, has welcomed the statement as a bold commitment.

PNG’s government struggles towards goal of education for all by 2015

The Papua New Guinea government is struggling towards it’s goal of education for all by 2015.

EFA has a strong emphasis on gender equality in education, with one of the goals ensuring that all children, particularly girls, have access to complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality.

PNG’s education minister, Michael Laimo says the government’s priority is making sure every child receives basic education.

He says however, around forty percent drop out before they reach grade 8, or before they turn 13.

And Mr Laimo says it’s female students especially that are leaving school early.

“T he female student, sometimes they don’t continue, it’s because sometimes parent they maybe don’t want for them to continue, after they finish basic education, they stay back with their parents, helping parents.”
Michael Laimo says there’s no law to keep children in school.

Three PNG women chosen to be MPs come out to support motion

The three women chosen by Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister to be voted in as parliament MPs have for the first time come out to publicly support the motion.

They are a former teacher, premier of Morobe and former commissioner of the Girl Guides, Enny Moaitz, a former educator and the head of Caritas, Mary Toliman, and a former journalist and woman advocate, Priscilla Kare.

The paper, the Post Courier reports the three say they are supported and endorsed by women’s organisations, and strongly believe in making a positive difference in the advancement of women.

The Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has supported the plan of having reserved seats for women in parliament because voters only chose a single woman MP in the last election.

The motion is expected to be introduced by Sir Michael in this month’s parliamentary session.

A heart mightier than Rocks

Meet Florentina Masi, the charismatic female geologist of gold and copper producer, Ok Tedi Mining Limited.

The 28-year-old lass of mixed parentage of Madang, Milne Bay and Morobe, is rather small in stature but to her, size does not matter.

Tina, as she likes to be called, has come out from the challenges of life stronger than ever.

She