Regional
In court for damaging St Mary
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – A man accused of stealing a statue of the Virgin Mary from inside a church in Samoa and damaging it in the process has appeared in court.
Confiscated tabua to be repatriated
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
FIJI – New Zealand’s Department of Conservation will repatriate to Fiji more than 100 cultural items from the country which have been seized over the past 15 years.
Medical marijuana access eased
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Seriously ill patients in New Zealand seeking medicinal cannabis to ease their symptoms will no longer have to take their cause right the way to the top, but access to the drugs will remain tightly controlled.
South Island lakes showing signs of stress
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A veteran water quality campaigner says even deep, clean South Island lakes such as Lake Wanaka are showing signs of stress.
Hitchhiking backpacker dumped and ripped off by motorist
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Before arriving in New Zealand a German backpacker never expected a hitchhiking experience could turn so horribly wrong.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 9/2/2017
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Published in Regional
SEVERE weather across the pacific PACIFIC –Wet weather is now causing strife in several Pacific nations.
Heavy rain warning remains for Fiji
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
FIJI – A heavy rain warning remains in force for the whole of Fiji and people around the country have been put on alert for further extensive flooding.
Hydro power boost from China
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea’s electricity provider hopes it can provide uninterrupted power supply to the country’s capital city Port Moresby
Veteran adamant he sprayed Agent Orange
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
GUAM – A Vietnam War veteran, who says he used Agent Orange on Guam during the war, says the people of Guam deserve to know the truth.
Tonga tourism chasing ambitious targets
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Tonga’s government has doubled the earnings goals for the tourism sector in the hope that it will play a bigger part in building a strong economy.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 8/2/2017
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
FUGITIVE US SAILOR TO BE EXTRADITED TONGA – The federal court in Honolulu has allowed the extradition of an American man wanted for the murder of his wife in Tonga.
168 asylum seekers to be deported - PNG starts arrangements to send non-refugees home
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea government is finalising arrangements to deport 168 asylum seekers from the Australian run camp on Manus Island back to their home countries.
Media ban remains in force
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A ban on local and international journalists having access to the Manus Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Transit Centre is still in place, Acting Immigration chief migration officer Solomon Kantha said.
PNG cabinet ministers accused of fraud
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
Papua NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has announced that two of his cabinet ministers are standing aside pending a probe into their involvement in alleged fraud.
Media ban at marae 'juvenile' says Peters
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A media ban at Waitangi’s Te Tii marae was “juvenile” and “silly” and showed how out of touch its trustees were, said New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.
PM English pays tribute to Ngati Whatua at Orakei
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Prime Minister Bill English has acknowledged Ngati Whatua and the occupation of Bastion Point at Waitangi Day commemorations in Auckland.
$300m worth of cocaine intercepted on Kiwi yacht
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – A New Zealand-registered boat, seized off the coast of New South Wales, is at the centre of a huge cocaine bust.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 7/2/2016
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
ASIANS SURVEYED ON SAFETY CONCERNS
Concerns over brothel for PNG's Manus
Monday 6 February 2017 | Published in Regional
Papua New Guinea – Concerns are being raised over a proposed brothel for asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 6/2/2017
Monday 6 February 2017 | Published in Regional
CHURCH FACES $60 million in payouts
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