SEVEN police officers attached with Hohola Police Station are facing charges after they were caught smoking and chewing ...

They can put up signs. They can try to stop it. But as long as life is hard and the days are long, people will chew. Because ...

Western Highlands Governor Wai Rapa has called for a complete cessation of betelnut sales and consumption within and around ...

The Papua New Guinea authorities and the IMF team reached staff-level ... Average headline inflation, which is largely affected by the betel nut price volatility, is projected to increase to 4.8 ...

Just before Pope Francis’ recent visit to Papua New Guinea, roadside stalls selling betel nut, a mild local intoxicant, were shut down. While this isn’t good for the many small stall holders ...

On a tree-lined street in Papua New Guinea's capital, Ruth sits at a small table covered in rows of betel nuts and mustard sticks for sale. In Port Moresby, there is no shortage of buyers for the ...

its streets full of bearded men from the Papua New Guinea highlands chewing and spitting betel nut, overlaid with the noise and fumes of revving minibuses, trucks and four-wheel drives.

Papua New Guinea, where roughly half the population of 9 million people chews betel nut, has the world’s highest incidence of oral cancer, according to estimates. 4 In recent years, oral cancer ...

Globally, the edible nut industry will be worth an estimated $2 billion by 2025. In Papua New Guinea, the nut of choice is the galip nut (Canarium indicum), which looks like an almond and is ...

Papua New Guinea’s predominantly agricultural society ... The practice produces a wide array of products for farmers, from betel nut to coconut and cacao, and is seen as a tool to address ...

A ubiquitous sight in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) capital is men, women and children chewing betel nut combined with slaked lime and mustard bean, turning lips, teeth and tongue a dark red, and producing ...

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