Regional
Fiji building state-of-art water bottling plant
Saturday 13 June 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – After five years of preparations, the groundwork for a multimillion-dollar mineral water-bottling factory in the interior of Ra province of Fiji will begin soon.
Call for American Samoa citizenship review
Saturday 13 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s former Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin (pictured left) has urged local leaders to call a national convention to discuss American Samoa’s future political status and the issue of US citizenship.
Australia could be accused of people smuggling
Saturday 13 June 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – An international law expert has raised the prospect that Australian authorities could be accused of people smuggling if it is proven they paid the crew of an asylum seeker boat to return to Indonesia.
Women athletes carry the torch
Saturday 13 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Of the 554 athletes that will compete for Papua New Guinea on home soil at the 2015 Pacific Games, 261 are women, and for many of them it’s been a hard road to make it to their country’s sporting elite.
Government employers treat vehicles as their own
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – The abuse of public vehicles is costing the government “millions.”
Love of rugby league helping school children
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – There are not too many people in Papua New Guinea who are not rugby league fans.
Barrier Reef 'in danger' listing urged
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TOWNSVILLE – The United Nations World Heritage Committee (WHC) could list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, according to analysis from Australian and US environmental lawyers.
Flag options fail to excite Fijians
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
LAUTOKA – Members of the public in Fiji polled in a random survey in Lautoka City were not happy with and rejected the final pool of 23 flag designs released by the government’s National Flag Committee on Tuesday.
Court case 'real reason for vote'
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – The Lands Minister in the ousted Vanuatu government, Ralph Regenvanu, has rejected the new government’s claim concerning the distribution of relief aid after Cyclone Pam in March.
Natuman out after no confidence vote
Friday 12 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – There’s been another political about-turn in the Pacific with Vanuatu’s prime minister Joe Natuman ousted in a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Investigation was stymied
Thursday 11 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – A former Nauru solicitor-general says a police investigation into alleged kickbacks from an Australian phosphate company to Nauru’s president and justice minister was well advanced at the time of police commissioner Richard Britten’s sacking in July 2013.
Flag submissions redesigned
Thursday 11 June 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – A committee member overseeing the public competition to design Fiji’s new flag has confirmed that members basically composed the 23 final entries themselves, selecting elements from the around 2000 designs submitted.
Island's people don't want military firing range
Thursday 11 June 2015 | Published in Regional
SAIPAN – The mayor of the Northern Marianas Northern Islands region, Jerome Aldan, said the US military should take into account indigenous and cultural factors in its plan to set up a live-fire range on the volcanic island of Pagan.
Chinese on Pacific island buying spree
Thursday 11 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – In China it’s hard to keep up with the latest multimillionaire status symbol.
Mining company plays down landowners protest
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
LIHIR – The mining company Newcrest says operations at its Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea have resumed following a temporary disruption caused by a small local group.
Officers arrested over beating of refugee
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
LORENGAU – Three Papua New Guinea immigration officers have been arrested and charged over last week’s beating of a refugee on Manus Island.
Kiwi's giant tuna catch a world record
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – After a four-hour battle with a monster tuna, an exhausted New Zealand woman didn’t need to be told she’d just hauled in a record-breaker.
Police go on rampage in Highlands
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
MT Hagen – More than 300 villagers in Enga are homeless after uniformed policemen from the Western Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea went on rampage in their village destroying private and state property.
Nauru leaders deny taking bribes
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Nauru’s justice minister David Adeang has hit back at allegations he was bribed by an Australian phosphate dealer.
Coconut soap on its way to market
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – A Vanuatu soap maker is to enter the New Zealand market after a new deal with Trade Aid to stock three varieties of its coconut project soap.
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