Regional
O'Neill labels report 'fake news'
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has taken a lead from US President Donald Trump, dismissing as “fake news” a report that claims its liquefied natural gas project is failing to deliver a promised economic boom to his people.
Vanuatu chiefs agree on resettlement
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – The Council of Chiefs on Vanuatu’s Santo island has reportedly agreed to resettle 11,000 people from volcanically active Ambae.
Rotuman people strive to save their language
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – The Rotuman language is listed on the Unesco’s list of endangered languages as “vulnerable”.
Elections clouded by claims of foul play
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – There are claims of foul play in French Polynesia’s territorial election which have prompted calls to cancel last month’s first round on one island.
Record rain creates giant sinkhole
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
A giant sinkhole has opened up on a farm near Rotorua following Sunday’s record breaking rainfall in the region.
Bill English starts a new job
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
Former prime minister Bill English has been appointed to the board of Australian retail giant Wesfarmers.
Roadworkers unearth waka
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
Road workers have uncovered what’s thought to be parts of a pre-European Maori waka on a motorway project north of Auckland.
Banks ordered to show that their hands are clean
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – The country’s leading banks have been ordered to prove they are not ripping off their customers like their Australian counterparts have been doing.
A case of too many Victorias
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Victoria University of Wellington is considering dropping the ‘Victoria’ from its name to avoid confusion with other institutions.
Campervans contaminated
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Holidaymakers may be sleeping in campervans contaminated with the toxic chemicals used to make methamphetamine.
Children taking meth to school
Wednesday 2 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Methamphetamine has become so endemic in New Zealand there are now reports of primary-age children taking the drug to school.
Two Fijians jailed for sedition
Tuesday 1 May 2018 | Published in Regional
FIJI – A former opposition MP is one of two men who have been jailed for more than two years after being convicted of sedition in Fiji.
PACIFIC BRIEFS - 01/05/2018
Tuesday 1 May 2018 | Published in Regional
FIRES PUTTING FIJI’S ECONOMY AT RISK
Rape of child prompts call for death penalty
Tuesday 1 May 2018 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – The parents of a six-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and murdered in Vanuatu last week are calling for the death penalty to be introduced.
Plans for new prison on Savai'i
Tuesday 1 May 2018 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Samoa’s Minister of Prisons says plans are being drawn up to build a new prison on the big island of Savai‘i.
PACIFIC BRIEFS - 30/04/2018
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
DENGUE OUTBREAK ‘NO CAUSE FOR PANIC’
Irregularities alleged in first round of voting
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
FRENCH POLYNESIA – French Polynesia’s Tahoeraa party says there have been a number of irregularities on part of the ruling Tapura party in the first round of voting for a new territorial assembly and complaints will be lodged.
Fishermen supplied with EPBs
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – The New Zealand aid programme is in the process of equipping Pacific fishermen with electronic locator beacons.
Hopes pinned on denuclearisation
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – As the world watches to see the outcome of a proposed denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States, islands in the middle of the Pacific are hoping it will mean a stop to the constant threat of a nuclear attack.
PACIFIC BRIEFS - 28/04/2018
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
FLIGHTS SUSPENDED AFTER EMERGENCY