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Pacific stance at UN 'shocks' Indonesia

Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Regional

Diplomatic discord after West Papua speeches


Fugitive sailor detained in Pago Pago

Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Regional

TONGA – Tonga Police have confirmed that escaped murder suspect Dean Jay Fletcher had been located in Pago Pago, American Samoa where he is now detained on local charges.


Cook Islands makes mark at top Sydney fashion show

Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Local

TWO COOK ISLANDS businesses will make their mark at the Pacific Runway Fashion show in Sydney, Australia on October 21

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Homeboy Holmes in Kangaroos

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in League

RISING rugby league star Valentine Holmes, who is of Cook Islands descent, has been named in the 24-member Kangaroos Four Nations squad.


Football action gaining momentum

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Football

THE RAROTONGA Round Cup competition gains momentum this week as teams battle to win their round-seven matches.


WASHED AWAY PERHAPS?

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals

DURING FRIDAY MORNING’S deluge a person wanting information tried to telephone the Ministry of Marine Resources at about 9.15am.


Urgent action on sharks

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

YOUR PAPER suggests that Wilkie Rasmussen was preparing Tuesday last week to file an injunction to stop a plan to kill off sharks in the Penrhyn lagoon. He is right: This is urgent.


Limit number of dogs on a property

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

DOGS HAVE their place as man's best friend, but at the moment that friendship is at breaking point in Rarotonga, anyway.


Rarotonga loses great performer and singer

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Local

THE FIRST Cook Islander to have grown and reached the top levels of music Henry Anthony Williams, better known as Tony Williams, has passed away.

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Our land should not be a commodity

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Opinion

Today’s opinion column is written by Aitutaki counsellor Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, who this week explores the power of a connection to the land. Wynne is standing in for regular columnist, Norman George, who is in Colombia, South America. He is representing CIFA at the FIFA Futsal World Cup and will return to Rarotonga this month.


DNA discovery may have health benefits

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A professor from New Zealand’s Massey University has proven travellers from Asia were the first people to settle in the Pacific, thousands of years ago.


Anticipation building in Apia league test

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

SAMOA – This weekend’s historic rugby league test between Toa Samoa and the Fiji Bati in Apia shapes as a big opportunity for fringe players to put themselves in the selection frame for next year’s World Cup.


Tongan government deadlocked, Pohiva says

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

TONGA – Tonga’s Prime Minister said his government was deadlocked and struggling because some chief executive officers and top officials did not like him and his government.


Auckland bust nets meth worth $17 million

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A police operation in South Auckland has netted $17 million worth of the illegal drug methampetamine.


Four get prison for beating up woman

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

VANUATU – The Supreme Court in Vanuatu has sentenced four men to prison after finding them guilty of assaulting and kidnapping a woman who had criticised the behaviour of tourist transport providers in Port Vila on Facebook.


PNG to keep transit centre running

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

Advocate says court ruling being misinterpreted


Fugitive nabbed in Pago Pago

Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Regional

US murder suspect who escaped from Tonga by yacht is located


Sharks rated after NRL grand final win

Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in League

NRL.COM rates the performances of all 17 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players in the 2016 NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Final.


An idea for making good use of all those glass bottles

Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

THE ADDITION of the new recycling bins in town is a welcome sight. The more we see of these bins, the more they will become part of our psyche and regular habits. We will think it normal to sort our rubbish.

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Tui mataiapo title

Tuesday 4 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I READ in the Cook Islands News on Saturday October 1 regarding the investiture of Joseph Taoro to the Tui Mataiapo ritle.


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