Regional
La Niña knocking at the door as El Niño says goodbye
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
HAWAI‘I – A new report from the National Weather Service predicts the strong El Niño that brought a record number of hurricanes, huge winter surf and a dry winter to Hawai‘i should begin to end late this spring or early this (northern hemisphere) summer.
Chance to rebuild stronger infrastructure
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
fiji – In Fiji engineers and assessors are counting the cost of the damage to roads and infrastructure caused by Cyclone Winston.
Signs of cracks in PNG'S coalition government
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s deputy opposition leader says the wheels are starting to come off the Peter O’Neill-led coalition government.
Confiscation of passports questioned
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
AMERICAN SAMOA – There are mixed signals coming from the American Samoa Attorney General’s Office and the Immigration Office regarding the confiscation of passports for non-US nationals and citizens visiting the territory.
Death of Fiji star shocks rugby world
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – The former Fiji rugby international Seru Rabeni is being remembered as a “cheerful”, “team man” who was “full of life.”
Forum requires invitation
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – The Pacific Islands Forum says it would only send an election observer team to Nauru if the government requested it.
Whales making slow recovery
Thursday 17 March 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – The population of southern right whales in the waters off New Zealand is just 12 per cent of its size before whaling began, according to a new study.
Pacific women's NGO marks 40 years of service
Wednesday 16 March 2016 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – The New Zealand non government women’s organisation Pacifica has just marked 40 years of service to Pacific women, families and communities.
No outbreaks of infectious diseases in Fiji
Wednesday 16 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Health teams working in Fiji in the aftermath of Cyclone Winston say the health situation has stabilised and they are not yet seeing large levels of mosquito, food and water-borne disease.
Hawaiians rejoice at return of taonga
Wednesday 16 March 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – Hawaiians have rejoiced at the return of a feather cloak and helmet gifted to English explorer Captain Cook in 1779.
Nauru's rule of law 'unaddressed'
Wednesday 16 March 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s foreign minister says the country has no plans to reinstate aid funding to Nauru’s justice sector while questions over rule of law in the Pacific nation persist.
Nauru's Adeang 'all-powerful'
Wednesday 16 March 2016 | Published in Regional
YAREN – A former secretary of justice for Nauru says the current justice minister, David Adeang, considers himself all powerful and that his government is above the law.
'What makes Kiwi's special' survey angers Maori
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – Maori MPs are calling for state broadcaster TVNZ to apologise and retract “racist” questions from a survey which seeks to find out how “Kiwi” New Zealanders are.
Malnourishment persists in drought-hit PNG
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESY – Water and food shortages remain critical in parts of Papua New Guinea such as Western Province and Milne Bay Province amid a prolonged drought.
Australia commits to Fiji recovery
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has met Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama in Suva to discuss the country’s recovery from Cyclone Winston – the category five storm that swept across the island nation last month, killing 44 people and flattening entire communities.
Baby girl's life spent behind bars
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
MOUNT HAGEN – A baby girl in Papua New Guinea has spent the past 14 months of her life in jail because her mother is a prisoner at Baisu jail, near Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands Province.
Former police chief charged
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Former Port Moresby police chief Andy Bawa has been arrested and charged with abuse of office and stealing – just one of several incidents that have shocked Papua New Guineans this week.
O'Neill corruption case stymied again
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s government has prevented anti-corruption police from engaging a private law firm and an Australian barrister to argue their case to arrest the country’s Prime Minister.
Maori challenge trade deal in the Waitangi Tribunal
Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – Maori claimants are lining up to challenge the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the Waitangi Tribunal.
Zika on the rise, WHO warns of risk in Pacific
Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – The World Health Organisation says new research has strengthened the link between the Zika virus and foetal abnormalities, and it says sexual transmission of the virus is more common than previously thought.
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