Regional
Access to healing water improved
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Access to a water source in a Tailevu village in Fiji that has been deemed miraculous has been upgraded by authorities.
Detention of refugee kids slammed
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
UN report decries treatment of children on Nauru
Detention camp film projected on high commission
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – A guerrilla screening of secretly obtained film footage showing an unprecedented view of Australia’s offshore refugee detention camps was projected on to the outside of the Australian high commission in central London on Wednesday night.
Guam torn by church sex abuse allegations
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Regional
GUAM – Atop a lofty hill overlooking the ocean in the US territory of Guam, a residence for the governor and a ceremonial one for the archbishop sit together, a decades-old symbol of their seemingly equal power on an island where nearly everyone is Roman Catholic.
Free and equal Pacific promoted
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Regional
Pacific campaign launched against homophobia and transphobia
Nuclear arms lawsuit rejected
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Regional
Marshalls Islands’ bid fails in international court
Fijian golfer Vijay Singh has his eye on winning the Fiji International golf title this week.
Thursday 6 October 2016 | Published in Regional
Australian military exercises ‘not aimed at Beijing’
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.
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
High seas pursuit of murder suspect
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – A murder suspect in Tonga continues to evade police on the high seas, after he escaped from a police station in Vava’u on Thursday.
Duterte apologises
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Regional
PHILIPPINES – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte specifically apologised to Jews on Sunday for his earlier comments in which he compared his war on drugs with the way Adolf Hitler slaughtered millions of Jews during World War II.
Breakthrough in trial for cure of HIV infection
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Regional
BRITAIN – UK scientists and clinicians working on a groundbreaking trial to test a possible cure for HIV infection say they have made remarkable progress after a test patient showed no sign of the virus following treatment.
'Living hell' as Aleppo battle rages on
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Regional
SYRIA – Civilians in the rebel-held part of the Syrian city of Aleppo are enduring a “living hell”, the UN humanitarian chief has said, as fighting rages on.
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