Regional
Papua New Guinea's great timber heist
Thursday 5 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Frédéric Mousseau Oakland Institute
Search on for monkey-faced bat
Thursday 5 May 2016 | Published in Regional
WESTERN PACIFIC – The Australian Museum has announced a scientific expedition to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville to undertake research into a pair of unique and rarely-sighted indigenous mammals.
Social media blamed
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Principals in Samoa coping with the latest school brawls say social media is to blame.
Goalkeeper killed by lighting
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Australian football goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski has died in hospital after being struck by lightning during training in Malaysia.
Dismissal of Fiji chiefs heavy-handed
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – An academic who’s been banned from Fiji says the Great Council of Chiefs may no longer be relevant but the way it was dissolved leaves a sense of unfinished business.
Key backs territories joining Forum
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – New Zealand’s support for French Polynesia and New Caledonia joining the Pacific Islands Forum is a significant development, according to the director of the New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research.
Blame game over self immolations
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says refugee advocates are to blame for two refugees setting fire to themselves on Nauru in the past week.
Australia staunch on immigration policy
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has hit out at “advocates and others” who he believes are pressuring refugees to “behave in a certain way”, saying the Federal Government will not be persuaded to change its border protection policies.
Anti-fraud office must reopen
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner says he will follow a recommendation from the country’s Supreme Court to reopen the anti-corruption unit he closed last month.
Ukeleles replace the organ at Bill Sevesi's funeral
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Family and friends gathered in New Zealand on Monday to celebrate the life of renowned musician Bill Sevesi where the organ was replaced by the ukulele at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell.
Wreck of Cook's Endeavour found
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
USA – Researchers believe they have found the wreck of HMS Endeavour, which carried Captain James Cook on his exploration of the Pacific.
PNG's opposition leader 'suspended'
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s opposition leader’s 2012 election victory has been stayed by the National Court.
Mega-resort planned on remote island
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
MICRONESIA – Plans to build a Chinese “mega-resort” on a remote Micronesian island have local politicians fearing residents will be shunted from their homes and “reduced to just doing cultural dances” for tourists.
Medical treatment criticised
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – The Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre was without doctor’s care for two hours at the medical facility and lay in agony for a further eight hours in Nauru’s hospital before morphine was administered, his wife says.
Female refugee sets herself on fire
Tuesday 3 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – A 21-year-old female refugee has set herself alight on Nauru in what is the second attempted suicide by self-immolation on the island in a week.
A heavy-handed act of regression
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Geoffrey Robertson QC Human Rights lawyer
Australian sentenced to 14 years in Fiji
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – An Australian man has been sentenced to 14 years’ jail in Fiji after being found guilty of possessing nearly 50 kilograms of cocaine.
Aid deal must be maintained
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Manus Island MP Ronnie Knight said he expects Australia to keep funding projects it agreed to as part of the refugee processing detention centre deal.
Lawyer seeks to make Australia liable
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The lawyer representing hundreds of asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island will this week seek a court order to make Australia legally liable for those at the detention centre.
Room for Manus men on Nauru
Monday 2 May 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Nauru has room for the 850 men from Manus Island’s detention centre, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says, but he is stressing the Australian Government remains in talks about the options available in Papua New Guinea.
« Previous 1 … 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 … 403 Next »