Regional
Fiji: Plea for fugitive father to come home
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
“Daddy, please come back home. I forgive you.”
Growers excited as kava ban lifted
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Kava growers around the Pacific are hoping the industry can come back to life, following the overturning of a 12 year ban on kava.
PNG: Action demanded on sorcery
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The United Nations has issued an appeal to Papua New Guinea to take further action to prevent attacks on women accused of sorcery.
Fiji: Leaders called to reveal salaries
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
A new candidate for this year’s election in Fiji says the government ministers should make their salaries public, now that the Fiji First party has been registered and launched.
Fiji: Rejected party fights back
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The proposed Fiji United Freedom Party intends to seek further clarification with the registrar of political parties following the rejection of its application to register as a political party last week.
Big names set to take on Fiji regime at elections
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Fiji’s biggest opposition party, and the party most likely to hurt the September election prospects of the regime-led Fiji First Party, has named its list of election candidates – with some high profile Fijians putting their weight behind the Social Democratic Liberal Party.
Samoa: Key's support seen as a political gimmick
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The idea of the New Zealand All Blacks playing a Pacific test match on Samoa soil is just a political gimmick to gain recognition and support from the Pacific people as the voters go to the country’s election in three months’ time.
First Pacific test for All Blacks?
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The IRB has pledged to put its weight behind the All Blacks’ proposed first ever test in the Pacific Islands as the historic fixture edges closer to becoming a reality.
NZ: Climate change 'not taken seriously'
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is not taking climate change seriously, the Green Party says.
Pacific rowers head for Hawai'i
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The Great Pacific Race, a rowing competition where 13 crews in seven-metre boats row more than 3400 kilometres from Monterey, California, across the Pacific to Waikiki, Hawai’i, began on Monday.
Fiji: Pledge of media freedom
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The leader of Fiji’s new National Federation Party, economist Professor Biman Prasad, has pledged to review the controversial media decree and pass a freedom of information law if it gains power in Fiji’s September general election.
Resurgence of leprosy cases
Tuesday 10 June 2014 | Published in Regional
A resurgence in the number of cases of leprosy throughout the Pacific has experts saying the disease is far from eradicated there – with several cases reported in New Zealand.
83-days to cross Papua New Guinea
Monday 9 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Two hardy British adventurers have walked, climbed and paddled for 83 days across one of the world’s wildest and least explored countries.
Fiji: Telecoms spying admitted
Monday 9 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Anti-regime websites in Fiji are confirming there is cause for concern over possible phone and internet tapping by the Fiji government leading up to the election.
Loans board backtracks on Fiji student stripped of scholarship
Monday 9 June 2014 | Published in Regional
A student in Fiji has had his government scholarship reinstated after he was reportedly stripped of it for becoming involved in politics.
Solomon Islands health care under pressure
Friday 6 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Health facilities in Solomon Islands are under pressure with the diarrhoea outbreak which has claimed the lives of 18 children over the past two weeks.
Tonga: Islands warned about debts to China
Friday 6 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The New Zealand Prime Minister is warning Pacific countries that if they cannot pay their debts to other countries, New Zealand will not be bailing them out.
PNG: 'Extinct' bat rediscovered
Friday 6 June 2014 | Published in Regional
A big-eared bat has been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea after dropping out of sight for more than a century.
French Polynesia: Judge urged to jail Flosse
Friday 6 June 2014 | Published in Regional
The prosecution in the trial of the French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse has called for him to be given a two-year jail sentence and a US$110,000 fine for abuse of public funds.
Fiji: Free and fair elections doubted
Friday 6 June 2014 | Published in Regional
Opposition parties in Fiji say intimidation and a lack of media coverage mean the coming elections will not be free and fair.
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