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Committed to ending child violence
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The United Nations says Pacific leaders are showing they are committed to ending high rates of violence against children in the region.
Report confirms violence epidemic
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – High rates of domestic violence, including brutality against pregnant women, in the South Pacific have been documented in a new Unicef report.
Fiji chiefs assert control of affairs
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
BA – The formation of a non-governmental organisation set up by a group of influential chiefs in the Ba Province of Fiji has stirred the ire of Ba Provincial Council chairman, Ratu Tevita Momedonu, who claims the group is “ill-advised”.
Pacific leaders in Japan for alliance meeting
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
TOKYO – Pacific leaders are now gathering in Japan for this week’s Pacific Alliance Leaders’ Meeting, or PALM.
Samoa PM brushes aside airline advice
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
APIA – The Samoan Prime Minister has downplayed calls for his government to defer plans to restart international Polynesian Airlines flights.
Attack 'covered up'
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – An Australia based advocate for refugees claims Nauru police and the Australian Immigration Department are covering up another sexual assault on an asylum seeker.
Flosse loses defamation case
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PAPEETE – The criminal court in French Polynesia has thrown out the defamation case brought by a former president, Gaston Flosse, against two French journalists over a book and a 2013 article in the French newspaper, Le Monde.
Tonga facing critical drought conditions
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – The Tonga Metservice says it’s critical for Tonga’s smaller islands that the effects of an ongoing drought are mitigated.
New chocolate range has Pacific ingredients
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – A New Zealand chocolate company has released a new range of chocolates using ingredients from the Pacific –vanilla from Tonga and cocoa from Samoa.
Contraband hidden in body cavities
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The swallowing and smuggling of drugs and mobile phones through body cavities continue to challenge the Fiji Corrections Service.
Tuvalu's islands rising says new report
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Published in Regional
FUNAFUTI – Despite ongoing sea level rise, the main atoll in the south Pacifi c nation of Tuvalu has grown in size over the past 100 years – according to fi ve scientists whose four-page paper was published earlier this month by the Geological Society of America.
Australians banned from Bougainville
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORS BY – Papua New Guinea has banned Australians from travelling to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, following Canberra’s announcement of plans to open a new diplomatic mission on the island.
Short on wheels
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s Police Commissioner says his force is struggling with a lack of resources, particularly the availability of vehicles.
Call for monitoring of Solomons dolphin hunt
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Published in Regional
FANALEI – The South Pacific Whale Research Consortium are calling for more scientific monitoring of traditional dolphin hunting practices in Solomon Islands.
Shocking submissions at Nauru inquiry
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – Shocking accounts of sexual assault and squalid living conditions at the Australian-funded detention centre on Nauru have been revealed in submissions to a Senate inquiry.
'Evil' gay activists told to leave Tonga by church members
Monday 18 May 2015 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – A protest in Tonga led by a church group who told gay activists attending a conference they were “evil” has been strongly condemned.
Body falls out of hearse at Auckland traffic lights
Monday 18 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PAPATOETOE – A bizarre story involving a dead body flying out from the back of a hearse in Auckland is making global headlines.
Fiji Sevens are world champions
Monday 18 May 2015 | Published in Regional
LONDON – Fiji’s sevens rugby team have been crowned the World Sevens Series champions for the second time.
Conference focuses on child abuse in the Pacific
Monday 18 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Pacific island nations have some of the highest rates of violence against children in the world – an issue Unicef says needs to be brought out of the shadows.
New Nauru laws there to 'gag people'
Monday 18 May 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The former president of Nauru has said he fears new restrictions on freedom of speech will make it impossible to properly campaign for next year’s national election.
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