Regional
Uncertainty for future of Pacific bluefin as 2015 season begins
Tuesday 6 January 2015 | Published in Regional
THE PACIFIC – The Pew Charitable Trust has made a call to name 2015 the “Year of the Pacific Bluefin Tuna”.
Active cyclone season worries islanders
Tuesday 6 January 2015 | Published in Regional
THE PACIFIC – South Pacific countries are bracing for what’s predicted to be an active cyclone season, with the worst expected from February.
Koreans go nuts over macadamias
Tuesday 6 January 2015 | Published in Regional
HONOLULU – Every cloud has a silver lining, so they say. And even bad news can be great publicity.
Fiji tourism on way up
Tuesday 6 January 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – In a bid to increase visitor arrivals, Tourism Fiji will be rolling out various new projects in 2015 as its rebranding campaign continues.
Fiji is world's happiest country
Monday 5 January 2015 | Published in Regional
SUVA – A study surveying people in 65 countries has found happiness is on the rise globally, with Fiji leading the way.
Newspaper editor arrested
Wednesday 31 December 2014 | Published in Regional
APIA – The editor of the Samoa government-owned Savali Newspaper, Tupuola Terry Tavita, has been arrested and is being held in Police custody.
Noble lord marries commoner sweetheart
Wednesday 31 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – The wedding of a member of the royal family to a commoner has sparked a scandal in Tonga
Undersea eruption close to Tonga
Wednesday 31 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – A large volcanic eruption is taking place near Tonga’s capital’s Nuku‘alofa sending ash and steam high into the sky.
Pohiva hands out portfolios
Wednesday 31 December 2014 | Published in Regional
NUKU‘ALOFA – Tonga’s Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva has named the 11 cabinet ministers with whom he will form a government of mostly commoners
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.
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