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Forum in support of Tahiti membership
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – Reports from French Polynesia say Fiji has confirmed that Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers are in support of the French territory becoming a full member despite it not being an independent nation.
Wolfgramm says Tonga is 'dead in the water'
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Paea Wolfgramm, the boxer who won Tonga’s only Olympic medal ever – 20 years ago – despairs that it will ever happen again.
Bodies of road crash victims arrive in Tonga
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – The bodies of four of the five men killed in the Bay of Plenty road crash last week were flown back to Tonga on Saturday.
Extra one million tourists per year possible
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – A new World Bank report says careful and sustainable planning around emerging tourism markets could help Pacific island countries gain as much as US$1.8 billion per year in additional revenues and create up to 128,000 additional jobs by 2040.
Zoos call for palm oil labelling
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Major zoos in New Zealand are joining their Australian counterparts in calling for the clear labelling of palm oil in food products.
Australia's 'pivitol role'
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Pacific’s largest nation ‘consequential’ in potential US-China war
Pacific lifters closing the gap
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Positive signs from weightlifting results in Rio
Sad but at peace, Val Adams misses third gold
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
OLYMPICS – After winning silver in Rio, Val Adams can still be considered the best in the world – she’s just not the Olympic champion any more.
60 per cent of Kiwis want cannabis law change
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A new poll suggests more than 60 per cent of New Zealanders want a cannabis law change.
Hawaiians divided over reserve expansion
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
HAWAI‘I – Native Hawaiians, marine scientists, conservationists, and the commercial longline fishing industry have been speaking out about a Senate proposal to expand the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Questions asked about marine reserve
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
HAWAI‘I – The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has agreed to ask the United States government to address a range of concerns about a proposal to expand Hawai‘i’s protected waters.
Pacific embraces Fiji's win
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Huge welcome planned for gold medal winners
Pressure on for abuse inquiry
Tuesday 16 August 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA– Australia’s Federal Opposition believes it has enough support to establish a Senate inquiry into abuse at the Nauru offshore detention centre, following the leaking of thousands of incident reports from the centre this week.
Tongan archer proud to wear his traditional tupenu
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Teenage Tongan archer Hans Arne Jensen says he wanted to wear a traditional tupenu during his Olympic competition to show the world how proud he is to be from Tonga.
Landowners threaten to shut down gas plant
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A government delegation is due in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province to respond to disgruntled Highlands landowners threatening a shutdown of the country’s major LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project. The project’s gas conditioning plant in the hides area of this highlands province remains locked out by landowners protesting that the government owes them five years worth of project commitments worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The project developer ExxonMobil said its facilities were “continuing to operate” and that it was “monitoring the peaceful protest” in Hela. A deployment of extra police to Hela from the capital in recent days is a sign that the government is concerned about the landowner threat. The government’s initial response to the current protest did not satisfy the landowners. Stanley Mamu from LNG Watch said a government deleg
Forum urged to act decisively on West Papua
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
WEST PAPUA – Once strictly confined as an Indonesian domestic issue, advances in telecommunications and Pacific regionalism have internationalised the plight of West Papuans.
Samoa's 'obesity gene' downplayed
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Just because you were born a Samoan doesn’t means you a destined to be obese.
Airport at a standstill for Fiji's big win
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Singing, celebrating Fijians united in pride after their sevens team won the country’s first ever Olympic gold medal had New Zealand journalist Juliette Siverten – currently travel blogging in Fiji – choked with emotion.
Fijian spirits soaring high
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Fiji goes wild over Olympic sevens gold medal win
Fiji's magnificent moment
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Tears, prayers, dancing and singing as Fiji men’s sevens win Pacific first-ever Olympic gold medal
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