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Atoll nations unveil 'Pacific Rising' initiative
Friday 11 December 2015 | Published in Regional
Paris – The Coalition of Atoll Nations on Climate Change has unveiled “Pacific Rising,” a new initiative being billed as a “Marshall Plan” for surviving climate change.
Crack down on duplicate voting
Friday 11 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s electoral office says it’s hoping to crack down on duplicate voting as it prepares to send new electoral cards to people who lost theirs when cyclone Pam struck in March.
2017 Mini Games in jeopardy?
Friday 11 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – The Pacific Games Council is worried by the lack of progress in Vanuatu towards the 2017 Mini Games.
Child street vendors on the increase in Samoa
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Child street vendors as young as six years old are selling goods on the streets of Samoa sometimes from the early hours of the morning until late at night.
Bans on convicted politicians appealed
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Dramatic developments are continuing in Vanuatu’s months long political crisis, with former politicians this week banned from holding public office for ten years.
El Niño creates tuna bonanza for Kiribati
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
SOUTH TARAWA – As Kiribati battles to save its islands from climate change-induced rising sea levels and drought, in an ironic twist the strongest El Niño in nearly 20 years is providing it with an economic bonanza in tuna.
Sopoaga confident of 1.5°C agreement
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PARIS – The Tuvalu prime minister, Enele Sopoaga, says he is positive the final climate agreement signed in Paris will see a 1.5 degrees Celcius warming limit.
Tuna summit 'disappointing'
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
BALI – There have been mixed results for Pacific Island states from five days of exhaustive talks at the annual meeting for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, or Tuna Commission.
Rape victims' settlement 'insulting'
Thursday 10 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORGERA – US researchers say the process for compensating women who have been raped by security guards at Papua New Guinea’s Porgera gold mine is “deeply flawed and insulting”.
Child street vendors
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – The Samoa Workers Congress says child street vendors in the country are on the increase, despite government measures to combat the issue.
Society appalled at attack claims
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The Fiji Law Society has urged respect for the rule of law following claims by a Lautoka lawyer he and his associates have been threatened and people close to him attacked and tortured.
Online video plea
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PARIS – Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor has called on world leaders meeting in Paris to protect the Pacific region.
At COP21 – a victory for 1.5 degrees?
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
pacific viewpoint By Ted Scheinman Pacific Standard Magazine Major powers appear to have made a major concession on their stated climate targets. Given the money and the science, that concession remains largely rhetorical.
EU forms climate alliance with ACP
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PARIS – The European Union has formed an alliance with 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in a final push for agreement at the climate summit COP21.
El Niño most powerful ever
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – The latest El Niño weather phenomenon is now the biggest and most powerful it has ever been since records began.
PNG in stranglehold of drought
Wednesday 9 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – People in drought-ravaged villages in Papua New Guinea are eating toxic mushrooms and clay to stave off hunger pangs as crops fail, vanishing water sources become contaminated and food, medical and fuel supplies are exhausted.
US tuna payment default looms
Tuesday 8 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Netani Rika Islands Business Magazine The United States is on a collision course with Pacific nations as it attempts to get itself off the hook on a fishing deal signed in September.
Authorities contemptuous of lawyer's claims
Tuesday 8 December 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, says the opposition needs to be “in tune with the ground realities in Fiji” after its reaction to last week’s allegations of intimidation and torture by a local lawyer.
Election called, jailed MPs banned
Tuesday 8 December 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s Supreme Court has followed through with invoking the leadership code of its constitution and banned all 15 MPs convicted of bribery from public office.
De Brum loses Marshalls seat
Monday 7 December 2015 | Published in Regional
MAJURO – The prominent foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum, is among several ministers to have lost their seats in the country’s elections.
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