Regional
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.
Doctors told to ignore mental health
Wednesday 10 June 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – A former senior doctor with an Australian Immigration Department contractor alleges medical staff were repeatedly pressured not to report mental health problems suffered by asylum seekers caused by detention on Nauru.
Corruption on Nauru 'revealed'
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The ABC has obtained evidence that the president of Nauru and his justice minister were allegedly bribed by an Australian phosphate dealer.
Scary half hour suspended over crocodile pit
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
DARWIN – A Dutch tourist has been rescued after being stuck in Darwin’s “Cage of Death” for half an hour suspended above a saltwater crocodile named after Britain’s Prince William.
Court accused of using racial references
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – The US Court of Appeals has been accused of using a racist, century-old ruling that referred to “alien races” as “savages” when they made a decision to deny American Samoans citizenship rights.
Armed police fly in to sort out mine dispute
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
LIHIR ISLAND – Heavily armed police have flown to Lihir Island to re-open Papua New Guinea’s largest gold mine after landowners halted operations and demanded talks with Australian company Newcrest Mining Ltd.
Flying has never been safer, industry says
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – For most Pacific island inhabitants, flying is the only way to travel.
To be first woman to row the Pacific
Tuesday 9 June 2015 | Published in Regional
CHOSHI – An American who has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean now hopes to be the first woman to travel across the Pacific.
Almost but not quite for Fiji U20 soccer heroes
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
WHANGAREI – Fiji’S dream run was crushed with a 3-0 loss to Uzbekistan in its final pool FIFA U20 World Cup soccer game in New Zealand on Sunday.
Begging your royal pardon
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – If you were going to crash a car through someone’s fence in Tonga – the home of the royal family would be the best place to avoid.
Mother afraid of surgery on Nauru
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The mother of an 11-year-old boy with a severely broken arm on Nauru is calling on the Australian government to allow her son to leave the island to undergo surgery.
Reports on tribal fighting 'sensational'
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TARI – In Papua New guinea, Hela province’s acting provincial administrator William Bando said all is not that bad in the resource-rich province in terms of law and order.
Top surfers waiting for waves on Tavarua
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TAVARUA – The thirteen-day waiting period for the 2015 Fiji Pro started on June 7 and runs through to June 19. The world’s best surfers have arrived in the South Pacific for stop No. 5 on the 2015 Samsung Galaxy WSL Championship Tour, recommencing the season’s race for the world surfing crown. The iconic left hand reef breaks of Cloudbreak and Restaurants off the resort island of Tavarua will challenge this year’s competing field to push the boundaries of innovative surfing to the next level. In terms of swell, current forecast models for the Fiji Pro hint at a very slow start, with the first six days of the waiting period likely to be lay days. Led by the “Brazilian Storm” – Adriano de Souza No.1 and WSL No. 2 Filipe Toledo – the world’s elite surfers will continue their global valuable prize points. “I’m super thankful to be back in Fiji,” De Souza said. “I’ve been here for the past week, warming up around the women’s event. The wave is world class and we’re going to see some amazing surfing at this event.” Toledo, coming hot off an emphatic win in Rio de Janeiro as well as a win at the opening event of the year at Snapper Rocks, was equally enthusiastic about the upcoming Fiji Pro. “It’s been a super solid year for me with a win on the Gold Coast and then at home in Brazil,” Toledo said. “I’m really pumped to be back in Fiji. It looks like we have some great waves forecast for the event and I’m excited to see how everyone is surfing.”
Case relied on references to 'alien races'
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – American Samoans are the only people born on United States soil who denied birthright citizenship. And so it will remain—at least for now.
Court rules on American Samoa citizenship
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – The American Samoa Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen is pleased with a landmark decision by the US Court of Appeals on citizenship.
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