Regional
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.
Palau files charges against boat captains
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
KOROR – Palau has filed charges against the captains of several fishing vessels from Vietnam that were caught early this month while allegedly engaged in illegal fishing activities in Palau’s waters.
Small businesses 'dying a slow death' in Samoa
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Small local businesses in Samoa are dying a slow death. And one Apia-based businesswoman said she cannot stay silent about it any longer.
Japanese PM supports managed fisheries in Pacific
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
KOROR – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stated that Japan is ready to assist and support Pacific island nations in managing and preserving their maritime resources, Palau’s Island Times reports.
Samoa to have total renewable energy by 2017
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – Samoa plans to operate on 100 per cent renewable energy by the year 2017.
'Disgruntled' Norfolk MPs lead opposition to change
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Regional
KINGSTON – Australia’s administrator on Norfolk Island says the opposition to reforms initiated by Canberra is being led by a few politicians who will lose their jobs.
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