Regional
Roadworkers unearth waka
Wednesday May 02, 2018Road workers have uncovered what’s thought to be parts of a pre-European Maori waka on a motorway project north of Auckland.
Banks ordered to show that their hands are clean
Wednesday May 02, 2018NEW ZEALAND – The country’s leading banks have been ordered to prove they are not ripping off their customers like their Australian counterparts have been doing.
A case of too many Victorias
Wednesday May 02, 2018NEW ZEALAND – Victoria University of Wellington is considering dropping the ‘Victoria’ from its name to avoid confusion with other institutions.
Campervans contaminated
Wednesday May 02, 2018NEW ZEALAND – Holidaymakers may be sleeping in campervans contaminated with the toxic chemicals used to make methamphetamine.
Children taking meth to school
Wednesday May 02, 2018NEW ZEALAND – Methamphetamine has become so endemic in New Zealand there are now reports of primary-age children taking the drug to school.
PACIFIC BRIEFS - 01/05/2018
Tuesday May 01, 2018FIRES PUTTING FIJI’S ECONOMY AT RISK
Rape of child prompts call for death penalty
Tuesday May 01, 2018VANUATU – The parents of a six-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and murdered in Vanuatu last week are calling for the death penalty to be introduced.
Two Fijians jailed for sedition
Tuesday May 01, 2018FIJI – A former opposition MP is one of two men who have been jailed for more than two years after being convicted of sedition in Fiji.
Plans for new prison on Savai‘i
Tuesday May 01, 2018SAMOA – Samoa’s Minister of Prisons says plans are being drawn up to build a new prison on the big island of Savai‘i.
