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.
PACIFIC — A landmark decision on disputed islands in the South China Sea last month is expected to see foreign ministries in the region scrambling to delineate their maritime boundaries.
WEST PAPUA – Clashes in the remote Papua province of Indonesia on the weekend have left three people dead and dozens injured, along with 25 houses burned down.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Police in Papua New Guinea say a tense hostage situation that shut down a popular tourist town and left two women injured was actually a hoax.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea Government has announced a plan to resurrect the academic year at the country’s three main universities.
OLYMPICS – The General Secretary of the Oceanic Weightlifting Federation says despite outrageous odds, he expects at least two Pacific lifters to make finals at the Rio Olympics.
Coconuts and fish not going to win medals in Rio
NEW ZEALAND – A year after New Zealand’s police commissioner admitted that there was an unconscious racial bias within the force, the organisation has rolled out efforts to bridge a cultural divide with increasingly diverse communities.
FRENCH POLYNESIA – Former French prime minister Alain Juppé has conceded France’s nuclear testing in the Pacific has impacted on the environment and peoples’ health.
BOUGAINVILLE – The government in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville is to press the global mining giant, Rio Tinto, on several fronts after it last month divested itself of its majority shareholding in Bougainville Copper Ltd.
SAMOA – La’auli Lupesoliai Joseph Parker’s local fans are confident that he will beat the Ukrainian boxer Alexander Dimitrenko when they meet in the ring in Auckland in October.
NAURU – An Australian consultant to the Nauruan Government has said refugee and asylum seeker children are being relentlessly bullied and subjected to racial vilification in local schools on Nauru.
Advocate claims inducement increased to $20,000
SOLOMON ISLANDS – A small dive operation in the Solomon Islands has been short-listed for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards.
MARSHALL ISLANDS – The Marshall Islands government says human trafficking is not a prominent issue despite a US report condemning the country’s record.
NIUE – Tourism – and families returning to Niue – have prompted a mini housing boom on the island.
NEW ZEALAND – The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key welcomed his Tongan counterpart in Auckland this week – ‘Akilisi Pohiva is on a first diplomatic visit, with both leaders dealing with concerns over the sale of Tongan passports.
SAMOA – Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has given his blessings to Team Samoa for the Rio Olympic Games.
AUSTRALIA – Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
SAMOA – The youngest survivor of a bus crash in Samoa that claimed one life and left many more in hospital is a three-year-old toddler.
PACIFIC VIEW By Sally Andrews
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