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No debt in China deal
8 February 2025
Thomas Wynne: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the dragon?
8 February 2025
‘Paedophile’ gets 13 years in prison
22 January 2025
Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
25 January 2025
$541.7m tourism earnings
25 January 2025
Cook Islands passport proposal
6 January 2025
Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
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7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Pacific
Tabuya ‘an ideal Minister for Information’, Fiji’s PM says
Fiji's Prime Minister is set to restore a backbencher to cabinet after she appeared in a private video dancing naked.
Diesel fuel aboard sunken Manawanui still unaccounted for
New Zealand Defence Force figures show more than half a million litres of diesel fuel aboard the Manawanui when it sank has not been taken off it.
Passport seizure appeal possible
NAURU – A former secretary of justice in Nauru, David Lambourne, says people on Nauru still have an option of appeal if their passports are seized.
Fiji police issue 18,000 tickets for speeding
FIJI – Speeding continues to top traffic offences committed on roads around Fiji as police say they have recorded more than 18,000 speeding bookings since January this year.
French Pacific territories join Pacific islands club
PACIFIC – At its latest summit, the Pacific Islands Forum has added two members – French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
Visa denial proves Australia has 'much to hide'
NAURU – Nauru’s secrecy over the Australian-run immigration detention centre on its island continues to deepen, with the Australian independent parliamentarian Andrew Wilkie denied a visa to the country.
$9.6 billion spent on 'turning back the boats'
AUSTRALIA – Australia has spent $9.6 billion in just four years on its asylum seeker policy – the majority on its offshore and mainland detention centres – according to a new report from Unicef and Save the Children.
Fiji PM to take over foreign policy
FIJI – A Fijian academic says the Fiji prime minister’s appointment of himself as foreign minister creates an interesting situation.
Forum not phased by Fiji events
MICRONESIA – New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key says events in Fiji over the weekend did not overshadow the annual Pacific Islands Forum.
No charges after weekend in jail
Prominent Fijians detained for holding meeting
Fiji cabinet reshuffled
FIJI – Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is to take on the foreign affairs portfolio in a major reshuffle of his cabinet which will have an impact of Pacific regional politics
New Zealand moves towards plain pack cigarettes
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand is likely to become the third nation to introduce plain packaged cigarettes after MPs voted on legislation that had sat on ice for three years.
PNG children face violence and abuse
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Seventy per cent of children in Papua New Guinea suffer physical abuse and 50 per cent face family violence, a new report has found.
Fiji villages relocated to safer sites
46 communities moving in wake of Cyclone Winston
Fiji-born beauty wins Miss Samoa
SAMOA – Priscilla Paleagaese Olano is Miss Samoa 2016-2017. The 25-year-old from Lauli’i – with Indian, Rotuman and Native American blood – was crowned at Tuana’imato on Friday night by former Miss Samoa, Ariana Taufao.
Commonwealth women's summit focuses on criminal justice
SAMOA – The Pacific’s Commonwealth countries are being promised toolkits and legal templates to help them implement global targets set for development.
Don't underestimate this man
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT
Homeless islanders scavenge for timber
Materials delay holds up post-cyclone rebuild
Nauru amends passport laws
Amendment passed to legitimise power to cancel passports
Australia seen as Pacific's 'rogue state'
PACIFIC VIEW
South Sea Islanders embrace heritage
Community celebrates its recognition in Australia
Lunch break dive sets a Fijian wahoo record
FIJI – Fiji-based Australian spear fisherman Jaga Crossingham has won plenty of fans since images of his monster 57kg wahoo made a hit on social media last month.
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