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Pacific
PM Brown confident in Pacific Islands Forum leadership despite political change in Tonga
The sudden resignation of Tonga’s former prime minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni had left a temporary gap in the leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown remains confident that the situation will soon stabilise.
Government ready to assist Vanuatu community fundraising
Cook Islands Government has expressed its willingness to assist Rarotonga’s Vanuatu community in their fundraising efforts following the recent devastating earthquake in Port Vila.
Fiji farmers turn back to traditional crops
FIJI – Fiji farmers are being encouraged to return to growing traditional crops and using traditional farming practises.
Battling corruption in the Pacific
PACIFIC – The fight against corruption is gaining momentum in the Pacific, according to the UNDP regional office in Fiji.
Oiled-up Tongan says he's focused
TONGA – Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua insists he is focused and ready for his Olympic debut this weekend.
Anti-Muslim tirade leads to court
FIJI – Fiji’s Public Prosecutor has charged the Fiji Times newspaper with inciting communal antagonism over an article against Muslims.
Castaway refugees going home
Lost asylum seekers spent 18 months on Yap
Queries over multi-million dollar airport spend
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's Waqa says abuse claims 'cooked up'
NAURU – Nauruan President Baron Waqa has reiterated that he believes allegations of abuse lodged by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru are “cooked up”.
Barrier Reef perceived as vanishing
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.
Water contamination puts town in shock
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.
Detainees 'wary' of closure
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.
Detention centre will be shut down
Dutton: ‘No detainees will be settled in Australia’
Hamstring injury knocks Tongan sprinter out of heats
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.
No confidence vote evaporates
TONGA – An announced vote of no confidence against the Tongan prime minister has not gone ahead in the parliament.
Kiwi kayaker wins back-to-back gold
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand’s world champion kayaker Lisa Carrington has won back-to-back Olympic gold medals on day 11 in Rio.
Nauru says abuse claims 'fabricated'
Australia media accused of using refugees as pawns
11 found guilty of conspiracy
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.
Forum in support of Tahiti membership
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.
Wolfgramm says Tonga is 'dead in the water'
TONGA – Paea Wolfgramm, the boxer who won Tonga’s only Olympic medal ever – 20 years ago – despairs that it will ever happen again.
Bodies of road crash victims arrive in Tonga
TONGA – The bodies of four of the five men killed in the Bay of Plenty road crash last week were flown back to Tonga on Saturday.
Extra one million tourists per year possible
PACIFIC – A new World Bank report says careful and sustainable planning around emerging tourism markets could help Pacific island countries gain as much as US$1.8 billion per year in additional revenues and create up to 128,000 additional jobs by 2040.
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