Regional
Soldiers rampage
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s deputy police commissioner has condemned soldiers involved in a rampage at a Port Moresby police station that left two policemen seriously injured.
Asylum seeker budget blowout
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection has suffered a $100-million blowout in the cost of detaining asylum seekers offshore.
Calls to fly pregnant women off Nauru
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Doctors will have Labor’s backing when it comes to requests regarding the treatment of asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, Australia’s Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says.
Island to get first post office
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
HIU ISLAND – In Vanuatu, the people of the remote Torres group of islands are to finally get a Post Office branch and Western Union link.
Unexploded bomb closes US army facility
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – The US Army Reserve Centre in American Samoa remains closed after the discovery of unexploded ordnance believed to date from the 1950s. It was unearthed during excavation work at the Tafuna site last week. Captain Wong Mageo of the American Samoa Army Reserve says the US Army Reserve headquarters in Honolulu has been asked to send experts to the territory to assess and dispose of the ordnance. It is believed to have been among supplies that were shipped from the local US Marine Base to Vietnam in the 1950s. - RNZI
South Korea offers to build solar plant
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
SAIPAN – South Korea’s Energy Solutions Co Ltd says it is interested in constructing a 10-megawatt solar power plant on Saipan.
Opposition offers support to pass budget
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s opposition says it is prepared to support the prime minister Sato Kilman to pass a budget for 2016.
Concerns for pregnant asylum seeker
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Doctors hold serious concerns about the health of a diabetic Kurdish asylum seeker on Nauru, who is 40 weeks pregnant and facing a difficult birth.
Governor decries global politics
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s Governor Lolo Moliga says he believes the territory is a victim of US global politics as its canneries face an uncertain future.
Beckham visits Papua New Guinea
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Regional
MOUNT HAGEN – British soccer star David Beckham has taken to the pitch in Papua New Guinea’s highlands for an exhibition match in front of villagers – some of whom have never heard of him.
Violence against women neglected
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – The Papua New Guinea government is failing to protect victims of family violence, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
Protection of albacore urged
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Pacific island countries have called on major global fishing countries to help them protect one of the world’s few remaining uncontrolled tuna species stocks.
Fiji military defied arrest of officer
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The Fiji military is yet to say if it defied the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions which two weeks ago had ordered the arrest of a military officer wanted in a high profile abuse case.
Starkist faces uncertain future
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s largest private sector employer, Starkist Samoa is to stop hiring new staff and is looking at shifting some of its production offshore.
Samoa gun amnesty
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Police in Samoa have received more than 20 guns in three days as part of a gun amnesty that runs until the end of the year.
Won't be home for Christmas
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Nauru opposition MP has rejected the justice minister’s testimony to the United Nations. Roland Kun had his passport cancelled in June following a protest outside parliament.
Island children hard hit by drought
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Regional
TANNA ISLAND – Young children have been the most affected in an El Nino-driven drought that is compounding the destruction caused by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.
Kyrgyzstan the new Nauru?
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Australia’s government is refusing to comment on reports that it is considering resettling refugees detained in Nauru and Papua New Guinea in the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.
Australia to end British honours
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared Monday that his government will no longer recognize “knights” and “dames.”
PNG makes major cuts to budget
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s government facing up to a huge drop in its revenue and has announced major funding cuts in this year’s supplementary budget and its 2016 budget
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