Lily PNG magazine

09/01/2025

Please be patient as we now sift through 200 or so entries in our 2025 Lily Homemade Competition to create a short-list for judging.
Entries only closed yesterday – January 8 – so we have a lot of work to do now to go through and file each application.
We are trying our best to acknowledge each entrant by sending an email response as soon as possible.
However, if you haven't heard from us yet, do please get in touch to check if your entry has been received.
Large files do not get through so if your email was bigger than 10mb we probably have not received it.
If you have not yet sent a photo of yourself with your product, please do so NOW - this is a requirement to complete your entry.
Note the correct email address is [email protected]
Note that LILY is NOT spelt LILLY.
MOORE is NOT spelt MORE.
Thank you!
We are so excited about the great range and quality of entries this year!
Lily Admin xx

06/01/2025

Some thought-provoking art from the finalists of the Akis Art Prize - the youngest finalist was only five years old!
Check them out and read about the winners in the new issue of PNG Air Magazine.

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31/12/2024

🍍🌴 Happy New Year 2025! 🌺🥭
Wishing all our readers and followers a FRUITFUL and amazing new year!
May your days be filled with joy, and your moments shared with those who help you realise your dreams.
Cheers to a safe, happy, healthy and productive year ahead! 🥂🎉
Stay fruity and fabulous! 🥥🍉✨
👑 Reminder that our Homemade Product Competition deadline is January 8 so if you haven't yet told us about the amazing products you make, inbox or email your entry before Wednesday next week to [email protected]

20/12/2024

Thank you for sharing the news about our Homemade Comp!!

There are just three weeks left until the January 8 deadline to enter the country’s biggest PNG-made product search, Lily Magazine’s annual HOMEMADE Competition.

18/12/2024

Great promo Media Partners PNG - thank you!

Lily Magazine’s annual HOMEMADE Competition is back, offering a life-changing opportunity for Papua New Guinean microbusinesses. With a grand cash prize of K12,000, this year’s com

16/12/2024

EDIT: Competition is now closed

Three weeks left to enter the Homemade Competition before January 8!!
Click on the 'Apply Now' button here and enter your details, then send a photo of you with your product.
It's that simple.

05/12/2024

For those looking for gluten-free flour, we are delighted to recommend the cassava flour produced by Hauslain Harvest of Lufa, Goroka – owned by Asaria Sokove and one of the outstanding finalists in our Lily Homemade Product Comp last year!
You can now buy the flour in packs of 1.5kg for K17 at Garden City SME stall # 142 in Port Moresby.

03/12/2024

Meet PNG's new queen!
May Hasola, a 21-year-old second-year law student at UPNG, took the Miss Bird of Paradise PNG crown at Apec Haus tonight, saying "God has been so good to me", before thanking "my people up on the island of Bougainville", her support team, sponsor Paradise Boutique, her parents, older brother Franz, aunties, uncles and two best friends.
May's mother Anastasia Wiau-Hasola, who was at the ceremony with Franz, while surgeon husband Dr Damien Hasola had to work, described her daughter as fun and happy. "She loves life," she said.
Runner-up was Joyce Jerry, 25, from East New Britain, with Getta Kambar 2nd runner-up and Natalie Mwayawa 3rd r/up.
Getta also won the awards for Best Talent, Best Sarong and Best TID (Traditionally Inspired Design), with other awards going to: Yasmine Tabogani (Best On-Stage Interview); Shonaye Leslie (Best Topic Presentation and Miss People's Choice - online votes); Caitlen Latumahina (Miss Personality); Michaelyne Marum (Miss Humanitarian); Jan-Khyara Sitapai (Entrepreneur Award) and May Hasola (Miss Photogenic).
Congratulations to all!

03/12/2024

A warm and uplifting farewell from our outgoing queen Tyla Singirok. Thank you.
….Not long now till we meet our new queen.

03/12/2024

Absolutely exquisite eco-printed calico and tapa from designer Elizabeth Omeri, dressing contestant Joyce Jerry.

03/12/2024

William Bray you’ve done it again.
The winning designer of PNG Fashion Week is dressing contestant Caitlen Latumahina.

03/12/2024

Stunning display of Bougainville culture!
May Hasola – who went on to win the Miss Bird of Paradise PNG crown – reveals her extraordinary black orchid-inspired gown in the TID (Traditionally Inspired Design) category on stage at Apec Haus.

03/12/2024

Loving the energy of the talent segment. Go Joyce Jerry!

03/12/2024

The best of the bestest wishes to these 10 bright young women who go before the judges at Apec Haus tonight and where one will be crowned our 2024 Miss Bird of Paradise PNG!
From degrees in construction, law and tourism management to medical lab science, this is a very promising group of future professionals.
One - Shonaye Leslie - is even a budding entrepreneur and was a finalist in Lily Magazine's Homemade Product Comp last year with her rich black tapioca sauce, a recipe from her mother's Guyanese family heritage.
Here's a short bio on each of them:
Top row, from left:
👑 Nevielly Jarmilla Kavop, 22, (Miss Popular Travel), UPNG student who recently completed Bach of Science majoring in Maths, Statistics and Computer Science; from East/West New Britain and Bougainville
👑 Michaelyne Marum, 22, (Miss BNN Foundation), Air Niugini travel consultant and new graduate in Tourism Business Management at UPNG; from East New Britain
👑 Joyce Jerry, 25, (Miss IBSUniversity), IBSUniversity student life co-ordinator; from East New Britain
👑 Getta Kambar, 24, (Miss Datec PNG), Lamana Development construction contract administrator after being a pioneer construction management graduate at UniTech; from Simbu/East New Britain/Gulf
👑 Shonaye Christy Leslie, 24, (Miss Hannah’s Beauty Box), POM General Hospital medical lab scientist; from Gulf/Bougainville
Bottom row, from left:
👑 Jan-Khyara Sitapai, 23, (Miss Simberi Gold), Simberi Gold Mine communication and external affairs co-ordinator; from Manus
👑 May Torowi Hasola, 21, (Miss Paradise Boutique), 2nd year law student UPNG; from Bougainville (Nagovis, Buin, Siwai & the Carteret Islands)
👑 Caitlen Latumahina, 24, (Miss Kumul Communications), reigning Miss Divine Word University where she recently completed studies in International Relations; from New Ireland/Milne Bay/Manus/East New Britain
👑 Natalie Mwayawa, 24, (Miss Edible Planets), executive officer to CEO IBBM; from Central/Milne Bay
👑 Yasmine Isla Imakuvi Tabogani, 25, (Miss DataCo), graduate engineer at PNG DataCo; from East Sepik/Milne Bay/Manus

Congratulations and best wishes to all 10 contestants!

29/11/2024

Cool fresh linen looks, love it!
We've been so excited to try Joulia Tengdui's designs since she debuted her Keluwa label at PNG Fashion Week's Paradise Runway last year.
Another quality production and collaboration with Glow Hair Boutique & Glow Boutique - congrats on the new collection!
https://fb.watch/w8UpuugKaa/

24/11/2024

A world-class endorsement for one of our favourite PNG designers!
Congratulations Wandid Amini Korimbo!

11/11/2024

Fancy a free PNG cap?
They're giving them away today with every purchase of K50 or more to celebrate the opening of Jack's of PNG's newest store – on the first floor of Brian Bell Boroko (opposite Kara Jewellers).
Customer Jason Ariki – pictured – scored one of the caps (which retail at K9.50) when he bought two shirts (K103.50) just after the official opening at 10am.
All clothes in the store, including a men's range as well as some children's, ladies and sportswear items are new Christmas stock freshly arrived in country and will be rolled out to other stores at a later time.
This is the 7th store that the Fiji retail fashion chain has opened in PNG – the others are at Waigani Central and Vision City in POM, and also Mt Hagen, Lae and Madang. Unfortunately the Rainbow store was burned down by looters in the January rampage but Jack's plans to rebuild out there, and also open new stores next year at Waterfront (POM Town) and Kokopo (East New Britain).
In 2026, a new Jack's store at 8 Mile will come on line alongside a second Vision City Mall that is apparently on its way in that area.
Exciting times for this dynamic company which has discovered dozens of PNG designers through its annual Design PNG competition and pays them handsomely in royalties when it turns those designs into uniquely PNG fabric prints to be made into fashion garments.