Regional
Attack on church pastor condemned
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
TARI – A church leader in Papua New Guinea has condemned the attack on a pastor and his family which resulted in the burning down of their home and the theft of church funds.
Bougainville travel ban lifted
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea has lifted a ban on Australians travelling to the autonomous region of Bougainville, the foreign minister Rimbink Pato said, adding that Australia and PNG have “reached common ground” on issues relating to the ban.
Tonga signs on to tackle corruption
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA– The Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, or GOPAC, is calling for a more inclusive approach to tackling corruption in the Pacific.
Solar flight forced down by weather
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
NAGOYA – The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 which was attempting non-stop flight across the Pacific from China to Hawai‘i has been forced to land in Japan by unforeseen bad weather.
Swordfish kills fisherman
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
KONA – A fisherman was killed in Hawai‘i on Friday after being speared by the swordfish he was trying to catch. According to reports, the crew of a fishing boat spotted a broadbill swordfish swimming in the Honokohau Harbour.
Pacific atolls are changing, not sinking
Tuesday 2 June 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – The author of a recent report suggesting atolls like Tuvalu are growing, no sinking, says the research has a risk of being misrepresented by climate change cynics.
Pacific health study follows children from birth
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional
Auckland – Measuring family wellbeing is complicated by the changing structure of families.
Locals say gold dregs are their birth right
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PANGUNA – Rachael Meara stands ankle deep in the Kavarong River with a shovel in her hands. She is nine months pregnant.
Buka diplomatic post row settled
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says a “misunderstanding” caused the row with Australia over its proposal to set up a diplomatic post on Bougainville.
Police warned of 'zero tolerance'
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guina’s new Police Commissioner Gari Baki has sounded his strict zero tolerance on police brutality and extra-judicial killings, warning police personnel “not to step out of line”.
Frenchman plans to swim the Pacific
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Regional
DALLAS – Starting this summer, 47-year-old Frenchman Ben Lecomte will try to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean.
Desert island dream faces legal awakening
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
TARAWA – A Frenchman’s dream of living on a deserted Pacific island have been shattered.
Belief in sorcery 'spreading like wildfire'
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
WABAG – Repeated acts of brutal violence in Papua New Guinea’s highlands provinces are being put down to the spreading of superstitious beliefs.
Police prepare for Pacific Games
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea police have launched a pre-event operation as a lead-up towards security surrounding the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby.
Many missing from electoral roll
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
BUKA – A former Bougainville women’s MP says as many as a third of potential voters in her area could not vote in the recent election because they were not on the roll.
Journalist cynical of media ban reversal
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SYDNEY – A French journalist who was jailed in West Papua last year for not having the correct entry permit says he doubts Indonesia will follow through with its promise to lift the region’s media ban.
Oil spill worries from longliner aground on reef
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – In American Samoa, almost 200 litres of diesel fuel was removed yesterday from a long-liner that has run aground on the reef off the airport, the Seahawk 68.
Political manoeuvres
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PAPEETE – The French Polynesian president, Edouard Fritch, has added the leader of the opposition Atia Porinetia party, Teva Rohfritsch, to his ministerial line-up.
Cyclone proofing urged
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – An emergency management expert says Vanuatu needs to introduce cyclone proof building codes to avoid more big damage bills from disasters like Cyclone Pam.
Droughts and cyclones on El Nino's agenda
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – The extreme weather system known as El Nino is well underway, scientists say, and is forecast to be a “substantial and lasting phenomenon” with severe implications for either side of the Pacific Ocean.
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