Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.
Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
BOUGAINVILLE – At only 1.5 metres above sea level at their highest point, the Carteret Islands are some of the first to succumb to the rising ocean tides.
Disease and climate change put iconic palm at risk
NEW ZEALAND – A new short film about New Zealand families and their homebirth experiences aims to empower more Pacific women to give birth at home.
FIJI – Fiji farmers are being encouraged to return to growing traditional crops and using traditional farming practises.
PACIFIC – The fight against corruption is gaining momentum in the Pacific, according to the UNDP regional office in Fiji.
TONGA – Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua insists he is focused and ready for his Olympic debut this weekend.
FIJI – Fiji’s Public Prosecutor has charged the Fiji Times newspaper with inciting communal antagonism over an article against Muslims.
Lost asylum seekers spent 18 months on Yap
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Questions are being raised about New Zealand spending millions of dollars on an airport development in Solomon Islands when the airport will still not be fully usable.
NAURU – Nauruan President Baron Waqa has reiterated that he believes allegations of abuse lodged by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru are “cooked up”.
AUSTRALIA – In a reversal of the normal travel bucket list, tourists are rushing to see the Great Barrier Reef before it dies, the Guardian reports.
NEW ZEALAND – A contaminated water supply is being blamed for a mass outbreak of gastroenteritis that has closed all the schools in a New Zealand town.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Australia has agreed to close the controversial asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island off the remote north coast of Papua New Guinea.
Dutton: ‘No detainees will be settled in Australia’
TONGA – A pulled hamstring stopped Tonga’s 100m sprinter Siueni Filimone from starting in the Round One heats of the men’s 100m sprint heats in Rio 2016 Olympics on Sunday, after he achieved his season’s best time of 10.76 seconds in the prelims.
TONGA – An announced vote of no confidence against the Tongan prime minister has not gone ahead in the parliament.
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand’s world champion kayaker Lisa Carrington has won back-to-back Olympic gold medals on day 11 in Rio.
Australia media accused of using refugees as pawns
VANUATU – Eleven jailed members of the Vanuatu Parliament and a lawyer have been found guilty on a charge of conspiring to defeat the course of justice.
FRENCH POLYNESIA – Reports from French Polynesia say Fiji has confirmed that Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers are in support of the French territory becoming a full member despite it not being an independent nation.
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