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Cook Islands passport proposal
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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
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
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.
Zoos call for palm oil labelling
NEW ZEALAND – Major zoos in New Zealand are joining their Australian counterparts in calling for the clear labelling of palm oil in food products.
Australia's 'pivitol role'
Pacific’s largest nation ‘consequential’ in potential US-China war
Pacific lifters closing the gap
Positive signs from weightlifting results in Rio
Sad but at peace, Val Adams misses third gold
OLYMPICS – After winning silver in Rio, Val Adams can still be considered the best in the world – she’s just not the Olympic champion any more.
60 per cent of Kiwis want cannabis law change
NEW ZEALAND – A new poll suggests more than 60 per cent of New Zealanders want a cannabis law change.
Hawaiians divided over reserve expansion
HAWAI‘I – Native Hawaiians, marine scientists, conservationists, and the commercial longline fishing industry have been speaking out about a Senate proposal to expand the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Questions asked about marine reserve
HAWAI‘I – The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has agreed to ask the United States government to address a range of concerns about a proposal to expand Hawai‘i’s protected waters.
Pacific embraces Fiji's win
Huge welcome planned for gold medal winners
Pressure on for abuse inquiry
AUSTRALIA– Australia’s Federal Opposition believes it has enough support to establish a Senate inquiry into abuse at the Nauru offshore detention centre, following the leaking of thousands of incident reports from the centre this week.
Tongan archer proud to wear his traditional tupenu
TONGA – Teenage Tongan archer Hans Arne Jensen says he wanted to wear a traditional tupenu during his Olympic competition to show the world how proud he is to be from Tonga.
Landowners threaten to shut down gas plant
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A government delegation is due in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province to respond to disgruntled Highlands landowners threatening a shutdown of the country’s major LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project. The project’s gas conditioning plant in the hides area of this highlands province remains locked out by landowners protesting that the government owes them five years worth of project commitments worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The project developer ExxonMobil said its facilities were “continuing to operate” and that it was “monitoring the peaceful protest” in Hela. A deployment of extra police to Hela from the capital in recent days is a sign that the government is concerned about the landowner threat. The government’s initial response to the current protest did not satisfy the landowners. Stanley Mamu from LNG Watch said a government deleg
Forum urged to act decisively on West Papua
WEST PAPUA – Once strictly confined as an Indonesian domestic issue, advances in telecommunications and Pacific regionalism have internationalised the plight of West Papuans.
Samoa's 'obesity gene' downplayed
SAMOA – Just because you were born a Samoan doesn’t means you a destined to be obese.
Airport at a standstill for Fiji's big win
Singing, celebrating Fijians united in pride after their sevens team won the country’s first ever Olympic gold medal had New Zealand journalist Juliette Siverten – currently travel blogging in Fiji – choked with emotion.
Fijian spirits soaring high
Fiji goes wild over Olympic sevens gold medal win
Fiji's magnificent moment
Tears, prayers, dancing and singing as Fiji men’s sevens win Pacific first-ever Olympic gold medal
Goal to land Dreamliners at Port Vila
VANUATU – The head of Airports Vanuatu says accommodating large Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliners’ at Port Vila is a realistic goal despite ongoing issues with the runway at Bauerfield.
Plan to build 500 traditional canoes
Marianas group want to recover lost sailing arts
Refugees accused of false claims
AUSTRALIA – The Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton has accused some asylum seekers detained by Canberra on Nauru of making false claims of sexual assault.
Fiji knocks out New Zealand for semifinal berth
OLYMPICS – The Fiji sevens team is through to the Rio Olympics semifinals after beating New Zealand in a nail-biting quarter final by 12-7.
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