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New Caledonia detains more 'blue boats'

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

NEW CALEDONIA – Three more Vietnamese blue boats (pictured above) have been caught fishing illegally for beche de mer within New Caledonia’s waters.


Norfolk-Auckland air link to stay

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

NORFOLK ISLAND – When Air New Zealand ends its direct Auckland-Norfolk Island link in May, a company on the island will fill the void.


Hearing to confront drug use in high schools

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

AMERICAN SAMOA – High schools in American Samoa are confronting a growing problem of illegal drug use.


Missionaries thrown overboard by pirates

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Pirates in Papua New Guinea waters held up a boatload of people at knifepoint last week and left them adrift after stealing the boat’s engine.


666 writs give churches the jitters

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s electoral commissioner has been forced to reassure church leaders he is not asking the country’s Governor-General to evoke an apocalyptic biblical prophecy.


Detention camp film shot on cellphone

Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Audiences around the world will soon have the chance to see what life is like inside one of Australia’s offshore detention centres.


Moeroa signs Eels contract to end of 2019

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in League

Parramatta Eels Rugby League Club has re-signed hard-hitting backrower Tepai Moeroa for two years, extending his contract until the end of the 2019 season.

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CI diplomacy means lots of travel

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor

If anyone gagged at the prime minister’s New Year address, his most recent column in CI News on Saturday, March 25 will make them very ill.

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Making sand from glass right way to go

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor

After Papa Williams’ letter offering an outside of the square solution for sand mining in Rarotonga, I was poised to write to remind your readers and the leaders of various ministries of an alternative to using our discarded and ever-increasing pile of empty glass bottles as the waste fill in the big holes now being dug across the island.

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Visitor lost friend, but found more

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Local

New Zealander John Carroll visited Rarotonga last week in search of his long-lost friend Tearii Pua-Tipokoroa.

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Dumped in spite of hard work

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Environment

They worked hard and by all accounts they did a good job, but the Aitutaki Power Station Authority Board still got dumped.


APS money Aitutaki's, says Mills

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Outer Islands

The former chairman of the Aitutaki Power Station Authority is adamant all funds accumulated by the entity from the island’s residents paying their power bills, rightfully belongs there.

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Tonga casino moves closer

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

TONGA – A company looking to build a casino in Tonga has reportedly been given tentative approval from the government.


PNG offers dual citizenship

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa are among eight prescribed countries whose passport holders will be allowed to hold dual citizenship in Papua New Guinea.


Fiji Times offices searched

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

FIJI – The main office of one of Fiji’s main newspapers, the Fiji Times, was searched by police this week in connection with an ongoing sedition case.


Flower paintings on show

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Local

New Zealand-based Cook Islands artist Sylvia Marsters will launch an exciting new exhibition of her latest work at the Bergman Gallery, this Thursday.

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New Zealand tree becomes social media sensation

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A spindly, crooked tree that appears to have grown up out of a lake has become an unlikely internet star and the most photographed tree in New Zealand.


Pastor made to work like a slave in orchard

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A Samoan father-of-five– who claims he was offered a job as a church youth pastor and then made to work “like a slave” in an orchard – has been deported.


Vanuatu workers snap up 'taste of home'

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A Vanuatu food company giving overseas seasonal workers a taste of home is set to increase its workforce as sales rise.


Law must confront sorcery-related crime

Monday 3 April 2017 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A Papua New Guinea church leader says strengthened laws and better law enforcement is needed to combat sorcery-related violence.


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