Regional
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
Rising carbon dioxide levels impair coral growth
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – Coral reefs are under threat if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, new research has shown.
Earthquakes reveal outdated building standards
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Sitting at the collision point of several tectonic plates, Papua New Guinea is ranked the 10th most disaster-prone country in the world and is regularly rattled by earthquakes.
Plastics pollution getting worse
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – New findings show that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a rotating soup of plastic in the north Pacific Ocean, contains up to 16 times more waste than previous surveys were able to detect.
Help with disaster management needed
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister says his country is looking to draw on Australia’s expertise to better respond to future natural disasters after the massive earthquake that devastated PNG’s Highlands in February.
Female crew to probe Garbage Patch
Monday 30 April 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – An all-female crew of sailors, scientists and film-makers are set to cross the Pacific later this year to research plastic pollution.
E-bikes to be covered by AA roadside service
Friday 27 April 2018 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Fresh air, fun and fitness combine when you take an electric bike for a spin, but what happens when it breaks down?
Fisherman missing for a week
Friday 27 April 2018 | Published in Regional
An extensive aerial search has been unable to find a fisherman who went missing from Karikari peninsula last Thursday.