Regional
Cyclone Winston: After the storm
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Cyclone Winston which hit Fiji nine days ago has caused an estimated US$19.4 million worth of damage to schools throughout the country.
Police plead not guilty to rape charges
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Eight suspended Fiji policemen and a military officer have pleaded not guilty to rape charges in relation to the death in police custody of Vilikesa Soko in 2014.
Fiji's neighbours providing aid
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Differences are being put aside between Fiji and its neighbours, as aid keeps flowing in to the cyclone ravaged country.
Violence victims lack protection
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – International medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières says a lack of legal protection and safe houses is increasing the effect of violence against women and children in Papua New Guinea
PNG ferry owner charged again
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
KOKOPO – The owner of the ill-fated Papua New Guinea ferry MV Rabaul Queen Peter Sharp has been arrested again.
Report outlines strategic importance of Tonga's territory
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – Tonga is grappling with the security of its extensive coastline as well as policing of its 676,401 square kilometres of Pacific Ocean territory.
Cyclone victims are helping themselves
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
Fiji’s remote interior has only received its first supplies almost a week after Cyclone Winston, reports Radio New Zealand’s Alex Perrottet, from Nadalei, Fiji.
PNG must expect weather extremes
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister has spoken out about recovery activities underway following concurrent disasters involving both drought and heavy rains in various parts of the country.
Fiji has to 'start from scratch'
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The death toll from Cyclone Winston has risen by one to 43.
Bainimarama hailed as a 'messiah'
Tuesday 1 March 2016 | Published in Regional
silana – Cyclone-hit villagers have hailed Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama as a biblical “messiah”.
'Destruction hard to comprehend'
Monday 29 February 2016 | Published in Regional
SOSO – Humanitarian aid agency Care Australia is helping Fijians in the devastated Soso village in the Yasawa Islands, after the devastating impact of category five Cyclone Winston.
Winston's media honeymoon is over
Monday 29 February 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Gray Clapham CI News Regional Editor
Village hero killed by cyclone
Monday 29 February 2016 | Published in Regional
NASEIBITU – Atunaisa Raralevu was determined to save 15 people trapped in a house at the height of Tropical Cyclone Winston at Naseibitu Village in Tailevu.
John John wins giant wave challenge
Saturday 27 February 2016 | Published in Regional
WAIMEA BAY – Brock Little would have absolutely loved it. The epic drops, the brutal carnage, the rowdy crowd, and the big-wave brotherhood gathering at Waimea Bay for just the ninth running of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, the same sacred event that made Little famous.
Disaster affecting thousands of children
Saturday 27 February 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The tens of thousands of children in Fiji affected by Cyclone Winston must receive the right psychosocial support, says the aid agency Unicef.
Aid effort 'missing the boat'
Saturday 27 February 2016 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – A Pacific community leader in Auckland is upset at what he calls “a heartless approach” from the New Zealand government to the collection of aid for cyclone-hit Fiji.
Fiji: Nearly 60,000 people homeless
Saturday 27 February 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The damage bill from Cyclone Winston in Fiji has already reached $650 million, the government says, with thousands of people still living in evacuation centres.
Massive Waimea as 'Eddie' called on!
Friday 26 February 2016 | Published in Regional
WAIMEA BAY – The world’s top big wave surfers are out in giant Waimea Bay waves honouring one of Hawai‘i’s most prestigious surfing events.
Fiji faces infrastructure rebuild
Friday 26 February 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Aid has begun arriving in some of the remote areas of Fiji that were hit hardest by Cyclone Winston at the weekend.
45,000 in evacuation centres
Friday 26 February 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The Fiji government says there are more than 45,000 people, or about five per cent of the population, in evacuation centres following Cyclone Winston.
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