Regional
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.
Hard man with a loving heart
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
Apia – Jerry Collins has been remembered as the epitome of an All Black as tributes poured in following the death of the former New Zealand forward.
Concern over Fiji's support of Indonesia
Monday 8 June 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Civil Society Groups in Fiji say Frank Bainimarama’s support for Indonesia’s bid to become an associate member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group is a serious concern.
Child abuse costs the Asia Pacific region US$209 billion
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Unicef has for the first time put a figure to the cost of Child abuse in East Asia and the Pacific and it comes in at a 209 billion US dollars per year.
Sacking of ministers stirs up politics in Vanuatu
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – The Vanuatu prime minister Joe Natuman says he dismissed two ministers to stabilise support for the government, which now has a majority of 28 MPs.
Deaths spark alert in Samoas
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s Department of Health is carrying out further testing to determine if there’s a new type of dengue fever present in the territory following confirmation that two people died from dengue last month.
Samoan All Black and wife killed in France
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
BEZIERS – Former All Blacks back rower Jerry Collins and his wife died Friday following a car accident in France.
Hope for better managed Pacific environment
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Friday, June 5, was World Environment Day and the Pacific’s key regional environment watchdog wants everyone to think of how they can have an impact.
Claims senator spied on while on Nauru
Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has attacked the Prime Minister Tony Abbott for saying she was being “looked after”, not spied on, while she was on Nauru.
Chinese firms buy sensitive mining projects
Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – A Chinese state-owned investment firm has lodged a compulsory acquisition notice for Australian-based mining company PanAust, which has assets in Papua New Guinea and Laos.
Production dives at troubled nickel mine
Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional
GORO – Rioters torched vehicles, equipment and buildings at Vale’s nickel mine in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last month, as anger boiled over about a chemical spill in a local river.
PACIFIC BRIEFS: TONGA'S BUDGET BIGGER THAN LAST YEAR
Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Tonga’s public servants are in for a pay rise with a more than US$2.4 million boost in the first budget of the Akilisi Pohiva government
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