Regional
No women appointed
Wednesday 31 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU’ALOFA – Tonga’s newly elected prime minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva has been sworn in by King Tupou the 6th.
New PM rushed home feeling ill
Tuesday 30 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU’ALOFA – Matangi Tonga reports that Tonga’s new Prime Minister, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, was rushed home by his family shortly after the prime ministerial election
Commoner elected Tonga's leader
Tuesday 30 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU’ALOFA – A Tongan politician who has previously been jailed for his efforts to reduce the power of monarchy has become the country’s first commoner to be elected prime minister.
Fisheries grant approved
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
THE PACIFIC – The World Bank has approved a US$33 million dollar grant for a programme to strengthen fisheries management in select Pacific countries.
Nickel spill causes damage
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
KONIAMBO – Initial assessments from last week’s nickel spill at New Caledonia’s Koniambo plant put the damage at more than three million US dollars.
Prime minister elected
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU’ALOFA – Tonga should know who its new prime minister is by now. There have been two nominations submitted for Kingdom’s top job and the MPs were to have voted yesterday.
Explosion injures restaurant staff
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
PAGO PAGO – Two people were injured in an explosion at an American Samoa restaurant on Christmas Eve.
PNG'S resource wealth a dilemma
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s wealth of natural resources can be viewed as the nation’s blessing, providing a lubricated pathway to social development and financial security.
Lava stalls on Christmas eve
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
PAHOA – Molten lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano in Hawai’i has stalled on its slow creep toward a Big Island shopping centre.
Ciguatera heading to southern waters
Monday 29 December 2014 | Published in Regional
EVANS HEAD – What was once considered a tropical food poisoning danger is now becoming a problem in places much further south.
Aid-for-trade in Pacific set to increase
Wednesday 17 September 2014 | Published in Regional
The recently released Australian foreign aid policy claims to be heralding a new paradigm of aid delivery.
Education spending sparks online debate
Monday 1 September 2014 | Published in Regional
Missed anything in the news this week? Stay up to date with this list of stories that drew the most interest online.
PNG: Forest felled for palm plantations
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
Papua New Guinea’s National Forest Board will consider a Malaysian company’s bid to continue to logging virgin rainforest in order to plant palm oil.
Climate refugees not on SIDS agenda
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
There is regret that next week’s conference on Small Island Developing States in Samoa will bypass the issue of creating a new category of environmental refugees.
Tonga: Sacked for suggesting co-operation
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
A Tongan MP Sitiveni Halapua says he was dropped from the Democratic Party because he wanted it to work together with other MPs.
PNG: Locals go shopping across border
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
The acting Governor of Papua New Guinea’s West Sepik says many people in his province are turning to Indonesia for goods and services.
NZ: Waste converted to energy
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
A New Zealand energy consultant says a technology which converts any kind of waste to renewable energy could be the way forward in making the Pacific region more sustainable.
Niue: Frustrated over lack of support
Thursday 28 August 2014 | Published in Regional
Niue’s premier Toke Talagi says he is frustrated by a lack of financial support for the Smaller Island States Unit of the Pacific Islands Forum and is considering leaving the sub-group.
Castaway feet washing ashore
Tuesday 26 August 2014 | Published in Regional
A human foot, still inside a New Balance sports shoe washed ashore in Seattle this week — and if that wasn’t mystery enough, it’s the fifteenth foot that’s washed ashore along the Pacific Northwest coast since 2007.
Town planner heads to isolated atoll
Tuesday 26 August 2014 | Published in Regional
How do you come up with an urban development plan for a city which consists of tiny islets connected by causeways located in a remote Pacific atoll and subject to flooding on the next king tide?
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