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No debt in China deal
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Thomas Wynne: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the dragon?
8 February 2025
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Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
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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
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Cook Islands has its first mosque
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CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
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Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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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.
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.
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.
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