Regional
League unaware of jihadist link to Fiji
Wednesday 17 June 2015 | Published in Regional
suva – The Fiji Muslim League says it is unaware of any Fiji links to alleged Fijian teenage terrorist Irfaan Hussein who died recently in the Middle East where he was fighting with Jihadists.
MP arrested at protest on Nauru
Wednesday 17 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – Protests have erupted outside Nauru’s parliament in a response to government corruption revealed last week, with an opposition MP arrested and allegedly beaten.
Facebook flag critics given warning
Wednesday 17 June 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The Fiji Police Force is warning members of the public to monitor their frustrations vented on social media regarding the country’s process of creating a new flag.
Biggest ever weightlifting field
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – The strongest weightlifting field in Pacific Games history will be on show in Port Moresby next month.
Church fights 'witch hunting' in PNG
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
Some may find it hard to believe that witch-hunting would occur in the 21st century. But it’s wreaking havoc still in some parts of the world – writes Ray Cavanaugh for NZCatholic, New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper.
Apia on track for Youth Games
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Samoa is “more than ready” to host the Fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in September this year.
People smugglers 'paid to turn back their boats'
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has repeatedly dodged new questions about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, only saying that his government is “prepared to do what is necessary to keep the boats stopped”.
Abbott's dodging of questions 'confirms allegations'
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
This goes further than hypocrisy. Tony Abbott’s primary justification for condemning people smugglers is that they cause deaths.
Surfer achieves perfection in Fiji
Tuesday 16 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TAVARUA – Australian surfer Owen Wright notched up perfect scores twice on his way to to winning the 2015 Fiji Pro mens championship.
Palau gives reason for ocean optimism
Monday 15 June 2015 | Published in Regional
Efforts to conserve the world’s oceans are continually challenged by both what people put into them, and the rates at which we are taking biodiversity out of them, writes Wayne Sentman – a conservation biologist, naturalist, educator, and director of international eco-travel programme for the Oceanic Society, America’s oldest non-profit group dedicated to ocean conservation.
Duped refugee claims his life is in danger
Monday 15 June 2015 | Published in Regional
LORENGAU – A refugee is in hiding on Manus Island in fear of his life, after allegedly being tricked by Papua New Guinea immigration officials into making a newspaper advertisement promoting resettlement.
Dengue fever worries as test day draws near
Monday 15 June 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Samoa is on high alert for a fatal strain of dengue that has hit neighbouring American Samoa, New Zealand’s TV One News reported on Sunday.
ABC accused of activism ahead of journalism
Monday 15 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The government of Nauru has sharply attacked the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, accusing it of spreading lies and replacing journalism with activism. The outburst comes just days after the ABC reported that a Queensland phosphate importer allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Nauru’s justice minister, David Adeang. Nauru rejected the report and in a fresh statement, it now says sections of the Australian media continue to wage a campaign to destabilise the Nauru government by supporting members of the opposition who slander government MPs and spread lies about Nauru. It insists that recent amendments to the criminal code are consistent with the constitution, saying no one is being arrested, no one is in jail, and freedom of speech is very much alive. It also says Nauru’s legal system is arguably the most independent, transparent and credible in the Pacific.
Palau sets fire to poachers' boats
Monday 15 June 2015 | Published in Regional
KOROR – The Western Pacific island nation of Palau has set fire to four Vietnamese fishing vessels caught illegally operating in its waters to deliver a stern and uncompromising warning that it will not tolerate poaching in its waters.
Natuman prepares for counter attack
Saturday 13 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s opposition has filed a counter-attack motion of no-confidence in the new prime minister, Sato Kilman, less than 24 hours after it was ousted by Kilman in a no-confidence vote.
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.
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.
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