Checking out Tiananmen Square
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Ramu NiCo Hope Elementary School
In the jungles of Naru, Madang Province, I came across this sign board.
Celebrating the beauty of the Environment with Ramu NiCo
All educational institutions in and around Madang were invited to join Ramu NiCo Management Ltd which is a subsidiary of the state owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to celebrate the World Environment Day 2012 in style. Divine Word University, Tusbab Secondary School, Madang Teachers College and other schools made their way across town to the company’s headquarters next to the Mobil fuel station. We attended a short presentation about what the company was doing. All of us asked questions about the mine and its impact on the environment. The presentation outlined how the Chinese miners will dig one part of the mineral rich land and after extracting the minerals fill it back up. After that process they will reforest the portion and move on to another allocated portion. Unlike Copper or Gold the Nickel and Cobalt is just above the soil. Thus, there is no need to dig an underground or open pit mine. They talked about the pipeline and concluded with the Deep Sea Tailing...
Random pictures of Chinese businesses
The ones with the Coca Cola signs are from a Kai Bar in front of the Madang market. The other 2 pictures are from Andersons Supermarket. The guy in the red shirt with his ID card is a shop assistant who was trying to help the Ramu NiCo miner to buy something, I forgot.