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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
‘Paedophile’ gets 13 years in prison
22 January 2025
Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
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Police need numbers and bigger budget
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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
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
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Tenants face water bill burden
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Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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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.
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.
Stop-the-boats policy condemned
AUSTRALIA - Two United Nations agencies and dozens of human rights, legal, religious and medical groups have demanded the Australian government put a stop to the suffering of asylum seekers and refugees in its offshore processing regime, following the publication of the Nauru files.
Poverty and hardship in Samoa easing
SAMOA – A report on Samoa’s hardship and poverty has shown a remarkable progress in food and basic needs for people but macroeconomic and poverty trends has revealed warning signals.
Asylum seeker tells of beatings
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – An asylum seeker who has spent three years in detention on Manus Island claims he has been assaulted up to a dozen times by security guards.
Leaked documents reveal saga of abuse
Rights groups call for closure of offshore camps
Medical advice from 'magic box' welcomed
VANUATU – Until recently, residents of the remote village of Naviso, in Vanuatu, had to hike an hour up a mountain just to get mobile phone reception.
Close to identifying new species
SOLOMON ISLANDS – An Australian museum expedition to Solomon Islands believes it is just weeks away from describing two new species of mammals.
Short games for most Pacific Olympians
OLYMPICS – The Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and American Samoa all began competition at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday.
Eight killed on Highlands Highway
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea police say eight people died in two road accidents in the same area of the Eastern Highlands on Sunday.
Refugee's body still on island
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea and Australian governments are yet to give clearance for the repatriation of the body of a Pakistan refugee who died on Manus Island last week.
200,000 people struggling to find food
PNG highlanders still need aid after El-Niño drought
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