Regional
Medical charity cancels PNG visit
Wednesday 20 July 2016 | Published in Regional
Political upheaval scares off heart surgery team
'Rogue' police set traps at traffic lights in Samoa
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – The Office of the Ombudsman in Samoa has been receiving reports that members of the public are being stopped by police officers on traffic duty for “no good reason”.
Fiji diplomatic ties becoming 'normalised'
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – As tensions around a history of military coups continue to fade, Fiji’s diplomatic and trade relationship with Australia has almost normalised, according to a senior Fijian government minister.
Minister agrees Asian businesses 'of concern'
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Concerns from members of the business community about the influx of Asian-owned companies taking over the retail sector are not being lost on Samoa’s government.
Big challenges facing Pacific journalism
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Media educators and trainers have come together to form a new regional body to address the concerning issue of a decreasing number of journalists and educators in the Pacific.
Anxiety as 7s squad named
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – A Fijian mother who used to sacrifice food so her husband could pay for the bus fare to watch their son play rugby at the weekend is coming to terms that her boy will be playing in the Olympic Games rugby sevens in Rio next month.
Dogs chasing athletes 'not funny'
Tuesday 19 July 2016 | Published in Regional
Village dogs giving Samoa’s tourism a bad name
'Let's see your numbers on Friday'
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – “We have 91 members of parliament in the government as we speak,” PNG’s Finance Minister James Marape said as government MP’s flew to a “camp” in Alotau at the weekend.
MPs flown to remote camp
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – At least 81 members of the ruling People’s National Congress Party and their coalition partners are now camped in the Milne Bay provincial capital of Alotau.
PNG awaits no confidence vote
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
Both opposition and O’Neill confident of winning
Traumatic memories of the night he was beaten by police
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – One of the three Fijian men caught allegedly cultivating marijuana by a team of police and military officers in 2009 says he still does not understand why they were tortured.
Faiths called upon to pray for the Pacific
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – The Pacific Climate Warriors movement is calling on people of different faiths to collaborate and discuss the environmental difficulties that face island nations.
Stream of climate change refugees feared
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand is being warned to prepare for an impending stream of refugees from the Pacific as low-lying atolls are swamped by sea-level rise over the coming decades.
Pacific countries alert to safety risks in Rio
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Pacific countries are receiving regular security updates from Brazil three weeks out from the start of the Rio Olympics.
Fiji sprinter opts out of Olympics
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji sprinter Banuve Tabakaucoro made a tough and courageous decision to pull out of the Rio Olympics, according the country’s Chef de Mission Cathy Wong.
Vote delayed, strikes called
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
Thousands stranded as PNG pilots call in ‘sick’
Nauru slams foreign media
Monday 18 July 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Nauru’s Justice Minister has launched a strident attack on Australian and New Zealand media outlets over coverage of asylum seekers housed on the island, saying recent elections should make them feel “humiliated”.
Police under pressure as unrest grows
Friday 15 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A senior police commander in Papua New Guinea says there have already been law and order issues resulting from the pressure coming on the government.
Attorney general, judge charged
Friday 15 July 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPAU NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s attorney general and Minister of Justice Ano Pala has been arrested and charged with abuse of office and misappropriating more than three million kina in public funds.
Crackdown on 'civil disobedience'
Friday 15 July 2016 | Published in Regional
O’Neill calls out forces to stop ‘spread of unrest’
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