Regional
Oiled-up Tongan says he's focused
Friday 19 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua insists he is focused and ready for his Olympic debut this weekend.
Anti-Muslim tirade leads to court
Friday 19 August 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji’s Public Prosecutor has charged the Fiji Times newspaper with inciting communal antagonism over an article against Muslims.
Castaway refugees going home
Friday 19 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Lost asylum seekers spent 18 months on Yap
Queries over multi-million dollar airport spend
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Questions are being raised about New Zealand spending millions of dollars on an airport development in Solomon Islands when the airport will still not be fully usable.
Nauru's Waqa says abuse claims 'cooked up'
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Nauruan President Baron Waqa has reiterated that he believes allegations of abuse lodged by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru are “cooked up”.
Barrier Reef perceived as vanishing
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – In a reversal of the normal travel bucket list, tourists are rushing to see the Great Barrier Reef before it dies, the Guardian reports.
Water contamination puts town in shock
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A contaminated water supply is being blamed for a mass outbreak of gastroenteritis that has closed all the schools in a New Zealand town.
Detainees 'wary' of closure
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Australia has agreed to close the controversial asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island off the remote north coast of Papua New Guinea.
Detention centre will be shut down
Thursday 18 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Dutton: ‘No detainees will be settled in Australia’
Hamstring injury knocks Tongan sprinter out of heats
Wednesday 17 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – A pulled hamstring stopped Tonga’s 100m sprinter Siueni Filimone from starting in the Round One heats of the men’s 100m sprint heats in Rio 2016 Olympics on Sunday, after he achieved his season’s best time of 10.76 seconds in the prelims.
No confidence vote evaporates
Wednesday 17 August 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – An announced vote of no confidence against the Tongan prime minister has not gone ahead in the parliament.
Kiwi kayaker wins back-to-back gold
Wednesday 17 August 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand’s world champion kayaker Lisa Carrington has won back-to-back Olympic gold medals on day 11 in Rio.
Nauru says abuse claims 'fabricated'
Wednesday 17 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Australia media accused of using refugees as pawns
11 found guilty of conspiracy
Wednesday 17 August 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Eleven jailed members of the Vanuatu Parliament and a lawyer have been found guilty on a charge of conspiring to defeat the course of justice.
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
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