I am Charles Eto From Southern Highlangds Province of Papua New Guinea doing my Bachelors degree in International Economics and Trade in China. I live in the capital city Beijing. My University is about 25 kilometers to the Beijing olympic venue(the nest).. I purposely created this blog to share ideas on political,social and economical issues affecting PNG and the Asia Pacific region in general.. I do highly welcome all your views. You can email me to eto_charles@yahoo.com.

Monday, January 19, 2009

New Year in a Chinese University..

My 2009 New Year pictures at NCEPU; Beijing





Monday, January 5, 2009


this is Kiru Andrew my fellow high school class mate in bandung Indonesia. he is currently doing his final year in International Social Works.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Thank you very much for the message..

Mathew I personally thank you for that encouraging and motivating message.
There is no regret that we are in this part of the world.

Happy new year to you in Jilin.
God Bless you in yours studies.

Charles Eto,
Beijing

Friday, January 2, 2009

Darmasiswa RI participant 2006/2007

These were some of my classmates in Indonesia when doing our Indonesian language, culture and arts studies from 2006/2007. Micheal Bot (first on right) was my room mate for a year in VEDC, Malang, East Java, Indonesia . He is from German and we still keep contact in Email. He is a man who really likes friendship. This photo was taken during our orination on the o1/09/06 in Jarkata, Indonesia.

Sai Kolopu in Sumatra Island, Indonesia.

Sai with Indonesia Students having Chrismas Party in Sumatra ,25 december 2006

The 2006/07 Darmasiswa RI Indonesia Scholarship participants.

That's Ipa Gove standing with the Darmasiswa Group . These students are from Canada, South Africa, Japan, Solvakia, Madagaska, French and Egypt.. Photo was taken out the learning Buildling.

Waiting For pick up Taxi.

Bruce Gigmai, Ipa Gove, (left, now doing in Masters in Indonesia), Micheal Aeka (right), Willie T. Raka( far right) and Me ( far left) waiting for taxi at Vocational Education Development Center (VEDC) Arjosari, Malang reservation area to leave for Surabaya then board for home Port Moresby. The photo was taken by Hans De Vere from Beligium a Darmasiswa RI Plus 2006/07 participant also..

Bruce Gimai..

Bruce Gimai playing his last song before leaving VEDC, Arjosari Malang and heading back home Port Moresby on the 30th July 2007.

FLORIAN, AYU and ELIZABETH in Bali 2007.

That's Ayu and Florian and Elizabet right at the back, Florian is from German and was a good companion for all PNG students and we all like him alot . this photo was take in Bali during the 1 term break of 2007.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

December 2008 world Bank report Asia Pacific region.

While East Asian countries have entered the current crisis substantially better prepared than they were for the 1997 Asian financial crisis, none have been spared the full fury of the global economic storm, says the World Bank's latest six-monthly assessment of the East Asia&Pacific regiong's economic health.In the face of weakening export growth and reduced levels of investment and consumption, the latest East Asia & Pacific Update forecasts that real GDP growth in developing East Asia will slow to 6.7 percent in 2009 from 8.5 percent in 2008. And the GDP growth forecast for East Asia as a whole (that includes all developing economies as well as Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia) will be down to 5.3 percent in 2009 from 7.0 percent this year.The report notes that the downside risks to East Asia are substantial in the near term but highlights that countries will be better positioned to deal with the crisis if they are able to maintain macro economic stability, shift exports to faster growing regions in the world, substitute external with domestic demand, and continue with structural reforms to strengthen competitiveness.World Bank Vice President for the East Asia and Pacific region Mr. Jim Adamsapplauded East Asian governments for their swift and effective policy interventions to avert the worst impacts of the global crisis so far."Thanks to the quick action of policy makers from virtually every EastAsian country, banking systems have been able to deal with the crisis so far and in anumber of countries, economic stimulus packages are being put in place,"Mr.Adams said. "These actions are helping East Asia continue to play a key stabilizing role and act as a growth pole for the global economy."Mr. Adams said despite the global downturn, the World Bank projects that EastAsia will contribute about a third of total global growth in 2008.While sobering in its forecast for 2009, the report states that the countries which have entered this crisis with low debt burdens, surpluses in their fiscal and external current accounts and large external reserves will have the most room to maneuver as the crisis unfolds."Despite the difficult road ahead, those countries that sustain the sound policies pursued thus far and tackle new challenges decisively will be the ones to emerge in a strengthened position when the global economy begins to recover," said Vikram Nehru, the World Bank's Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific.The report warns that the regions most vulnerable countries are those with more open capital accounts, large non-resident holdings of equities, and astrong reliance on foreign portfolio investment. Low income countries (Lao PDR,Cambodia, PNG, Timor-Leste, and small island states in the Pacific), on theother hand, have not been affected as much from the financial turbulence because their banking systems are less exposed to global markets, but they too will be impacted by lower commodity export earnings, tourism receipts, and remittances from overseas workers.Poverty rates are likely to fall further in 2009, declining to 10.68 percent for developing East Asia as a whole, compared with the 10.36 percent projected earlier this year. While the number of poor people in the region will continue to decline, an estimated 5.6 million more people would have emerged from poverty next year if not for the slump.* Developing East Asia includes China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand,Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea and the island economies of the Pacific.

Rugby League has to be promoted in all of PNG.

Rugby the game of all has been promoted by the Aussies and Britains ever since started there. However it was known in PNG and other Pacific Islands during pre Independence Period. During those times it was opportunity for only few of our boys like Arebo Tamaku, Taxi , Mea Mora and others to play and make name but never had the opportunity of playing in a NRL club or supper league club.
In comparison today, we have fellows like Stanly Gene, Makali Arzu, and others plus newly recruited bloks like Charlie Wabo, Menzie Yere who will be joining the fellows this years to play and live in England. There are also others playing rugby in NRL clubs and fiter Clubs in Australia .At this stage, rugby league is an opportuinty for PNG in terms of sports to forster national pride in the international arena. I am not saying other sports cannot forster national pride but there is no such opportuinty that is available in rubgy league than to other sports in PNG .

Rugby league is professionalised in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and France and maybe in the future it might be in US, Russia, Japan and etc...Its so interesting, At the recent 2008 world Cup PNG was pooled with the 3 major rugby league powers like Australia, New Zealand and Briatin. There was no exception, they know we can play with them and they had this great confident in our boys who had the natural talents and skills in playing rugby league and they want to know them well.

We have already got very briliant developmental strategies for rugby league and we need to promote it in all over the country. For instance the school boys rugby league , the offseason rugby tournment usually played in local communities and we have this proper seasons and then to intercity. These strategies has to be revived in all parts of PNG and all levels of Government has to take some iniciatives in funding or sponsorship of players so that players can view rugby league as their profession and perform to their best to promote it globally with Australia, Britain and New Zealand.