Regional
Offshore detention policy foundering
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – An Australian NGO says Wilson Security’s decision not to renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has left Australia’s offshore detention policy foundering.
Call for state of emergency in Tahiti
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – There is a call for France to extend its state of emergency in force since last year’s Paris bombings to French Polynesia to counter Islamic radicalism.
Violence plagues PNG rugby league
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Regional
Spectator killed in brawl after match in Port Moresby
Somare denies taking bribes
Monday 5 September 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s founding prime minister Sir Michael Somare has denied receiving bribes or inducements, after a Singapore court said he got more than A$1 million from a money laundering scam.
MPs heading home early embarrass government
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s prime minister has said he “read the riot act” to three ministers after they went home early, meaning his government lost a series of votes.
Obama makes climate change personal
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
HAWAI ‘I – Barack Obama has issued perhaps his most personal plea yet to overcome the existential threat posed by climate change.
Leaders look to US on climate issues
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Pacific island leaders have called for continuity in the region’s relationship with the United States ahead of the imminent change of government in Washington.
Wilson departure a 'serious blow'
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – An Australian NGO says Wilson Security’s announcement that it will not renew its contract for security at detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru is yet another serious blow for offshore detention.
Tattooists alarmed by HIV risks
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – A Samoan tattooist says people wanting to get tattoos – including the traditional Samoan tatau for men and malu for women – should have blood tests beforehand.
Somare implicated in fraud case
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Published in Regional
Sir Michael named as money laundering recipient
Samoan pageant celebrates 'third gender'
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Bright lights, glittering dresses and dazzling smiles are a feature of every beauty pageant, but Samoa’s Miss Fa’afafine is a pageant with a difference – an annual celebration of the island nation’s third gender tradition.
No tsunami after 7.1 earthquake
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A tsunami warning issued following a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck before dawn off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island was later cancelled,The earthquake, which struck at 4.37am local time, prompted evacuations along the East Coast of the North Island and the upper South Island, but there were no reports of damage.
Security firm abandons contracts
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Regional
Wilson withdraws from offshore detention centres
Rice quota cut shocks Australia
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Executives from a leading Australian rice company have travelled to Port Moresby to fight the Papua New Guinean government’s decision to impose a 20 per cent import quota on the Australian company.
Panguna's gaping hole a bitter legacy
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
BOUGAINVILLE – The gaping hole carved into the mountains of Bougainville was at one time the world’s largest open-cut copper mine.
Mine shares row leads to threats to deny licence
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
BOUGAINVILLE – The Autonomous Region of Bougainville is engaged in a new struggle with the Papua New Guinean government over the ownership of the island’s controversial Panguna copper mine.
Fiji not prepared for coming cyclone season
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – There’s concern in Fiji that homes and schools will not be rebuilt before the upcoming cyclone season.
Tuilaepa worried about food security
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
samoa – Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has warned that food security in the Pacific is being eroded as people move to the towns and rely on cheap imported food.
Hurricane greets Obama in Hawai'i
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
HAWAI‘I – Hurricane Madeline showed a surge of power as it churned toward Hawai‘i, peaking at a dangerous category four strength before slackening, US weather officials say.
Danish MPs cancel visit to Nauru
Thursday 1 September 2016 | Published in Regional
Nauru denies visas to three members of delegation
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