Regional
Ousted government welcomes 'challenge'
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
KIRIBATI – The former ruling party in Kiribati, Boutokaan te Koaua, of BTK, has publicly welcomed its defeat in the presidential election.
Big names unable to boost Samoa's sevens
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Samoa has admitted defeat in its efforts to secure some high profile fifteen-a-side stars to boost their chances of qualifying for the Olympic sevens competition.
It was the hottest March since records kept
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Record breaking temperatures worldwide last month is not good news for the Pacific’s low-lying islands.
Bank defends doing business on Nauru
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Australia’s Bendigo Bank is facing calls to close down its operations in Nauru, after Westpac announced it would cut ties with the island nation’s government.
Tax exemption reversal celebrated
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Campaigners in the Solomon Islands are celebrating a High Court decision to reverse a controversial tax exemption for MPs’ salaries.
Fiji students pledge to be good
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – School students in Fiji are to make eight promises every morning as part of acompulsory nationwide initiative the Ministry of Education hopes will raise national pride, reduce absenteeism, bullying and disruptive behaviour – and even curb unwise sexual activities.
Rescued after nine days adrift
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – In Fiji, an 18-year-old youth has been found after drifting at sea for nine days.
Cyclone intensifies after about turn
Friday 22 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – On Thursday evening Tropical Cyclone Amos was moving southeast and intensifying but remained largely over open water as it headed towards the Samoas.
'Torment and brutality on Australia's gulags'
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Dr Binoy Kampmark Lecturer Melbourne University
Fears of another Nauru attempted suicide charge
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – Refugee advocates in Australia are concerned that another refugee will be charged with attempted suicide after Nauru police arrested a 38-year-old Iranian refugee this week.
Fiji Football embracing daunting Olympic draw
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji admit they face an “almighty challenge” after being drawn against football giants Mexico, Germany and South Korea for their Olympic debut in Rio later this year.
Forecasters watching Cyclone Amos
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAcific – A new tropical cyclone has developed in the Pacific several hundred kilometres west of Samoa and about the same distance northeast of Fiji
Nine villages on Fiji island to be relocated
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – About 3000 people from nine coastal villages on the Fiji island of Ovalau in the Lomaiviti Archipelago will be relocated because of the devastation caused by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston.
'Yet to receive restraining orders'
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Police Commissioner Gari Baki said he has not received the court summons restraining him from suspending National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate (NFACD) boss Mathew Damaru.
PNG police boss 'not rational'
Thursday 21 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s former attorney-general says the country’s police commissioner has become too emotionally involved in the ongoing fracas involving the country’s fraud squad and its investigation into the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill.
109-year-old birthday girl says every day is a blessing
Wednesday 20 April 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Samoan matriarch Mitavale Levaopolo Sione, born April 18, 1907, celebrated her 109th birthday this week, making her possibly the oldest person in Samoa.
93 per cent of Barrier Reef hit by coral bleaching
Wednesday 20 April 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Almost 93 per cent of reefs on the Great Barrier Reef have been hit by coral bleaching, according to a comprehensive survey revealing the full extent of the devastation caused by abnormally warm ocean temperatures sweeping the globe.
West Papua the neglected story of our time
Wednesday 20 April 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people is essentially about “telling the truth”.
Vanuatu rejects MSG appointment
Wednesday 20 April 2016 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Vanuatu’s Council of Ministers has reiterated that it won’t accept the appointment of the Fijian Amena Yauvoli as new director-general of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
Sentences dismay asylum seekers
Wednesday 20 April 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Two men found guilty of murdering asylum seeker Reza Barati will spend just over three more years in prison, Papua New Guinea police say.
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