Regional
Social impacts of drought need to be considered
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORSEBY – Authorities must look at the drought’s additional impacts and concerns in order to mitigate the El Nino phenomenon affecting Papua New Guinea, according to a researcher.
Australia scores an own goal on human rights
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – A controversial new whistleblower law has emerged as an obstacle to a visit to Australia by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants.
ABC reports refugees raped on Nauru
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Nauru government refuses to answer broadcasters questions claiming ongoing ‘imbalanced coverage’
Lawyers banned from PNG
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Australians engaged by anti-corruption agency face border block
Witness describes killing
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Asylum seeker murder accused say witness statement is false
Dozens die as drought intensifies
Tuesday 29 September 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – In Papua New Guinea there are unconfirmed reports dozens of people have died from starvation and disease as a drought tightens its grip on the Pacific nation.
Samoa hopes still high despite loss
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
BIRMINGHAM – After all the talk of another potential upset, Samoa was unable to contain an angry South Africa as the Springboks sought redemption from their shock first match Rugby World Cup loss to Japan last week.
Tonga takes on Namibia, Fiji eyes up for Japan
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
EXETER – Tonga coach Mana Otai has named his team for the Pool C match against Namibia at Sandy Park, Exeter, today which comes before contests ahead with Argentina and then New Zealand.
Earthquake shakes Papua city
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
SORONG – A powerful earthquake in remote eastern Indonesia has injured more than 60 people, left hundreds of houses damaged and rattled an idyllic island chain popular with foreign tourists and divers.
New Zealand celebrates Tuvalu language week
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – The importance of keeping Pacific languages alive will be highlighted during Tuvalu Language Week, New Zealand’s Pacific Peoples Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga says.
Trial witness threatened
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Main witness fears for life in trial of accused killers of asylum seeker
Foreign staff not respecting local law
Monday 28 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Detention centre staff fly out to avoid questioning, PNG police say.
Diver dies on Bikini
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
MAJURO – A German tourist has died in a diving incident in the Marshall Islands.
Deported children will 'find it hard'
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
TARAWA – A former president of Kiribati Sir Ieremia Tabai says the case of a family who failed to get climate refugee status in New Zealand has shone a spotlight on the predicament of Kiribati.
Kiribati 'climate refugee' deported
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – New Zealand has deported the Kiribati man whose lawyers have argued should be allowed to stay in the country as a refugee because the effects of climate change threaten his homeland.
Kun being investigated over fatal accident
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The Nauru government says the suspended opposition MP Roland Kun is being investigated for his alleged role in an historic fatal accident.
The end of the world is nigh, again
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
CHRISTCHURCH – It seems no year is complete without a doomsday prediction or two and – despite every prophecy to date being demonstrably wrong – 2015 is proving no exception, with everyone from evangelical preachers to the New Zealand Skeptics studying the latest predictions of the coming apocalypse.
Deportation gives message to Pacific
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
Taberannang Korauaba is editor of Kiribati Independent and a doctoral candidate with the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology. Here he writes about the deportation of Ioane Teitiota, the man being portrayed as the world’s first climate change refugee.
Assault claims against Kiribati man
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – New Zealand media has reported “startling allegations of sexual assault” have been made against Ioane Teitiota, who was deported back to Kiribati this week.
Family to follow next week
Friday 25 September 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – The father of a family claiming climate change makes them refugees has been accompanied by a police officer back to Kiribati.
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