Regional
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
Goal to land Dreamliners at Port Vila
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – The head of Airports Vanuatu says accommodating large Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliners’ at Port Vila is a realistic goal despite ongoing issues with the runway at Bauerfield.
Plan to build 500 traditional canoes
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Marianas group want to recover lost sailing arts
Refugees accused of false claims
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – The Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton has accused some asylum seekers detained by Canberra on Nauru of making false claims of sexual assault.
Fiji knocks out New Zealand for semifinal berth
Thursday 11 August 2016 | Published in Regional
OLYMPICS – The Fiji sevens team is through to the Rio Olympics semifinals after beating New Zealand in a nail-biting quarter final by 12-7.
Stop-the-boats policy condemned
Thursday 11 August 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA - Two United Nations agencies and dozens of human rights, legal, religious and medical groups have demanded the Australian government put a stop to the suffering of asylum seekers and refugees in its offshore processing regime, following the publication of the Nauru files.
Poverty and hardship in Samoa easing
Thursday 11 August 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – A report on Samoa’s hardship and poverty has shown a remarkable progress in food and basic needs for people but macroeconomic and poverty trends has revealed warning signals.
Asylum seeker tells of beatings
Thursday 11 August 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – An asylum seeker who has spent three years in detention on Manus Island claims he has been assaulted up to a dozen times by security guards.
Leaked documents reveal saga of abuse
Thursday 11 August 2016 | Published in Regional
Rights groups call for closure of offshore camps
Medical advice from 'magic box' welcomed
Wednesday 10 August 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Until recently, residents of the remote village of Naviso, in Vanuatu, had to hike an hour up a mountain just to get mobile phone reception.
Close to identifying new species
Wednesday 10 August 2016 | Published in Regional
SOLOMON ISLANDS – An Australian museum expedition to Solomon Islands believes it is just weeks away from describing two new species of mammals.
Short games for most Pacific Olympians
Wednesday 10 August 2016 | Published in Regional
OLYMPICS – The Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and American Samoa all began competition at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday.
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