“I remember the first time I came here, thinking, this is the most beautiful place I have ever seen,” says Australian multimillionaire Ian Gowrie-Smith of the day, 20 years ago, when he decided to buy the Conflict Group of 21 uninhabited islands surrounding a deep water lagoon in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea (PNG). “It was an impulse.
SYDNEY - The potential sale of a privately owned group of tiny islands off the coast of northern Australia has sparked a controversy over concerns that they could be bought by China and may then pose a security risk to Australia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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