Regional
Hawaii: Mayoral candidate 'stunned'
Tuesday 29 July 2014 | Published in Regional
A barefoot, bong-making, wannabe Hawaiian mayor who resisted arrest has been shocked by police in a public street.
Tonga raises drinking age
Tuesday 29 July 2014 | Published in Regional
The Tongan parliament this week passed a law raising the alcoholic drinking age from 18 to 21 years old.
Fiji: Call for sustainable sea transport
Tuesday 29 July 2014 | Published in Regional
There’s been a call for international donors to adjust their priorities and invest in sustainable sea transport to reduce the Pacific’s reliance on expensive and high-polluting fossil fuels.
Plane crash near Pago Pago
Saturday 26 July 2014 | Published in Regional
A plane carrying an American father and son attempting to fly around the world for charity crashed in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday night near the Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa.
Pacific flags fly at start of Games
Saturday 26 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Pacific athletes have taken their place at the colourful opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Samoa: Market delays upset vendors
Wednesday 23 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Farmers and vendors braving the rain and the boiling sun on the streets of Fugalei in Samoa are slowly losing hope.
Lions may play in the Pacific
Wednesday 23 July 2014 | Published in Regional
The British and Irish Lions are under pressure to follow the All Blacks’ lead and play a test in the Pacific Islands on the way to New Zealand for their 2017 tour.
PNG: Churches offer AIDs faith healing
Wednesday 23 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Revivalist churches in Papua New Guinea are promoting prayer as a substitute for medication to those with HIV, according to human rights groups.
Samoa: One woman's flight from a life of violence
Wednesday 23 July 2014 | Published in Regional
A poignant story of one young woman’s struggle against domestic violence has been told in the Samoa Observer newspaper this week.
News service laments its own demise
Wednesday 23 July 2014 | Published in Regional
The impact of recently announced cuts to Radio Australia and other international services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is likely to be raised at a Pacific leaders meeting in Palau next week.
Big seas turn Pacific rower around
Tuesday 22 July 2014 | Published in Regional
English rower Elsa Hammond was supposed to be rowing to Hawai’i, but she's rowing towards Mexico.
Rowers welcomed to Waikiki
Tuesday 22 July 2014 | Published in Regional
New Zealander Tara Remington’s and her Paralympian companion Angela Madsen ended an epic row across the Pacific Ocean when they came ashore in Hawai’i this weekend.
Australia: Paedophile preyed on Vanuatu children
Tuesday 22 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Accused paeodphile Gregory Druery used his position of trust with the church and families to abuse children, Australian police say.
All Blacks test in Samoa confirmed
Tuesday 22 July 2014 | Published in Regional
The All Blacks have finally agreed to play a test in Samoa after years of pressure to repay a country which has benefited the New Zealand team so much in the past.
NZ: Rugby sensation eyes Australia
Monday 21 July 2014 | Published in Regional
New Zealand Rugby Union is in danger of losing the game’s next superstar if it doesn’t act quickly, with schoolboy sensation Taniela “the Tongan Thor” Tupou confirming a desire to play for the Wallabies.
Australian soldier dies on Mt Cook
Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Regional
An Australian soldier who died on Mount Cook in New Zealand on Wednesday is understood to have fallen into a crevasse when a snow bridge he was crossing collapsed.
Fiji: Traditional canoes to sail to Sydney
Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Traditional voyaging canoes from five countries will now be part of a spectacular armada making a journey from Cook Islands to Australia.
Tonga boxers head team of fifteen
Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Tonga will be represented at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in four sports by 15 athletes including two bronze medallist boxers, Uaine Fa Junior and Lomalito Moala, who won their medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Maori lessons 'compulsory'
Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Regional
New Zealand’s Minister of Maori Affairs says the time has come for it to be compulsory for every New Zealand school to be able to offer students Maori language lessons.
Tonga: A divergence of ideologies
Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Regional
Dumped Tonga opposition MP Sitiveni Halapua – who will not stand for the Democrats after a party committee chose not to select four MPs as candidates for November’s election – says the reasons for non-selection appear to be specific to each of the four.
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