Regional
Pacific has nine of the ten fattest countries
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Figures released by the World Health Organisation show nine out of the ten most obese countries in the world are in the Pacific – with Cook Islands topping the list with 50.8 per cent of its people being obese.
Budget urges Australians to 'have a go'
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Regional
CANBERRA – A multi-billion-dollar small business boost, a crackdown on welfare, a tax system focused on “fairness” and mounting deficits have been laid out in the Abbott government’s second federal budget.
Fiji on cusp of world rugby sevens title
Wednesday 13 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji are on the cusp of sevens rugby glory after winning the Cup title in Glasgow to overtake South Africa in the World Series standings.
Doubts over lifting of media restrictions
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has lifted restrictions that prevent foreign journalists travelling to the country’s Papua provinces.
Man killed by shark in New Caledonia
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
KOUARE – A 50-year-old French man died after being bitten multiple times in a “savage and sudden” attack by a shark while he was snorkelling with his wife and friends off a catamaran in New Caledonia.
Players forced to abandon home teams
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Leading European clubs are pressurising their Pacific island players to retire from international rugby duties four months out from the World Cup, it has been claimed.
Youth leaders take climate change message to Sydney
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SYDNEY – Two months after category five cyclone Pam battered their small nations, four young Pacific island leaders have journeyed to southeast Sydney to encourage Australians to act on climate change.
One million to get feet wet for Tuvalu
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
VENICE – An artwork that gets your feet wet is about to be unveiled in Venice at the 56th International Biennale.
Death penalty under review
Tuesday 12 May 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill says the death penalty is “under review” after recent global outcry over the execution of foreign drug convicts in neighbouring Indonesia.
Gloves are off as Bougainville polls open
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
BUKA – Polls have opened in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville to elect a government that will lead the island on the path towards a referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea.
Fiji Sevens lead series and qualify for Olympics
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
Fiji have beaten New Zealand 24-17 in the final of the Glasgow Sevens to claim their fourth title of the season and move to the brink of the World Series title.
Papuan prisoners released
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
JAKARTA – Indonesian president Joko Widodo has ordered the release of a group of political prisoners in Papua in a rare conciliatory gesture to the restive eastern province.
Typhoon Noul thrashes Philippines
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
MANILA – A powerful Pacific-born typhoon has swept across the Western Pacific after making landfall in the north-east of the Philippines as a “super typhoon”, before weakening and moving towards Taiwan.
UN torture team calls for transparency
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – A United Nations torture prevention team has called for greater transparency on conditions and systems governing the immigration detention centre in Nauru following a visit to the island nation.
Fiji minister resigns due to ill health
Monday 11 May 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and the leader of the Government in the Parliament, Pio Tikoduadua, has resigned due to illness.
Turning waste into energy
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Regional
MAJURO – A $2 million waste-to-power investment by one of the biggest corporations in the United States is underway at the Marshall Islands Energy Company’s power plant in Majuro.
They named the village after the builder
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Regional
LAUTOKA – Just outside Fiji’s second biggest city, Lautoka, lies a place known as Koroipita or Peter’s village, home to some of the country’s poorest people.
Landowners pay $100 for a gold mine
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Regional
HONIARA – A landowner company in Solomon Islands has bought the troubled Gold Ridge mine for just $100 from Australian gold miner Saint Barbara.
Surfboards shaped with bush knives
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Regional
TIPURA – Surfers in Papua New Guinea are going back to basics and learning the traditional Hawaiian techniques of timber surfboard building.
Backlash over tax-free salaries
Saturday 9 May 2015 | Published in Regional
HONIARA – There is a growing discontent against moves in Solomon Islands to offer tax-free salaries to federal members of parliament.
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