Regards,
Solo

Why not? What about setting up a regional Pacific Chinese newspaper/magazine?

Published bimonthly and highlighting successful Chinese nationals in the Pacific, business opportunities, business advice, government policies, news from China, fugitive watch, trends in the Pacific, reporting on what Taiwan is up to in the region, what other Chinese are are up to…

It would work. The Chinese are a collective proud society loyal to their roots – there you go, the slogan of the magazine: “Promoting China in the Pacific” – in Mandarin of course.

It will work as long as it is informative and not objective – as soon as the magazine starts attacking countries and their leaders, bye bye Chinese newspaper.

Which reminds the author, Tavurvur needs to learn Mandarin or Cantonese. One day.

Kabot,

Tavurvur

I totally agree with you on the fact that we have only ourselves to blame firstly for letting them in so easily and then secondly not competing against them effectively.

Just reading this post a thought hit me. Hell if an Asian company can setup an english newspaper. Why couldn’t a PNG’ean setup a Chinese language newspaper in PNG for that market. They’re here already so lets all make some money!

I agree with you to a certain extent. I think too often Papua New Guineans point the finger to Asians in PNG and blame them for “taking” business from us. If anything – Asians are “creating” business opportunities in PNG – particularly in the small business sector.

SOE’s and mining companies don’t drive the economies of most countries – it is small businesses who make the wheels turn round. I don’t see what is stopping PNGeans from doing exactly what Asians are doing in PNG – there is nothing special or unique about the way they do business in PNG.

The simple fact that they are in PNG and taking advantage of business opportunities is a reflection of our lack of initiative and entrepreneurship as Papua New Guineans.

On the topic of cheap, counterfeit, and low quality products that are flooding our market – I somewhat agree with you. The PNG villager is not able to afford the “real” stuff, so what do we expect? They need to eke out a living as well and if that means they purchase a cheap/fake product to enable them to improve their lives – then by all means they should – and I don’t think anyone has the right to tell them they can’t or shouldn’t do that.

I guarantee you this – if you go into any remote rural village in PNG you will notice that the people there are not the ones complaining about cheap/fake products. It is those of us who have been urbanised, and who have enough disposable income to make a choice. To the PNG villager – the cost of goods is a huge factor.

The problem I have with these cheap/fake goods is the question of where does the money go? Does it stay in PNG – or is it bootlegged out of PNG back to their countries of origin?

The answer to this question has serious ramifications and it would be interesting to do a bit of research into this matter.

Kabot,

Tavurvur