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‘Nothing to worry about’: Prime Minister Brown on China agreement
16 February 2025
‘Serious questions’: Opposition challenges China partnership
15 February 2025
No-confidence motion against PM and his Cabinet faces delays
15 February 2025
Ruta Mave: People’s Republic of China red flag
10 February 2025
No debt in China deal
8 February 2025
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?
25 January 2025
$541.7m tourism earnings
25 January 2025
Cook Islands passport proposal
6 January 2025
Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
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
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
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
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.
Remorseful gang members clean up their mess
SAMOA – Members of a Samoan youth gang accused of vandalising properties in the Apia Township have said they are truly sorry for their behaviour.
Australian netball coach lands a pearl of a job
FIJI – Vicki Wilson is already learning on the job after being appointed Fiji netball coach through to the 2019 World Cup.
Refugee drowns on Manus Island
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A refugee from Australia’s offshore processing centre on Manus Island has drowned.
Five Tongans killed in crash
NEW ZEALAND – Five Tongan men leaving their kiwifruit packhouse jobs at the end of the working day have been killed in a crash with a logging truck near Katikati, New Zealand.
Airline turns back Vanuatu flight
Flights halted due to renewed runway concerns
Nuclear testing veterans sceptical about latest promises
FRENCH POLYNESIA – The chair of a nuclear veterans association in French Polynesia says the admission by France’s former Prime Minister that nuclear testing had a detrimental effect is a welcome step.
NZ elaborates on ambassador's West Papua trip
WEST PAPUA – Concerns about freedom of expression and the right to assemble were raised by New Zealand’s ambassador to Indonesia during his recent visit to West Papua.
Rush to mark out Pacific sea borders expected
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.
Villagers evacuate as tribal war escalates
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.
PNG hostage standoff the result of a hoax
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.
Plan to restart PNG universities
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea Government has announced a plan to resurrect the academic year at the country’s three main universities.
Setting sights on making finals
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.
Pacific lifters up against drug cheats
Coconuts and fish not going to win medals in Rio
Police working to overcome cultural divide
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.
Juppé acknowledges nuclear wrongdoing
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.
Joseph Parker takes time out in Samoa
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.
Anger over Rio Tinto deal grows
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.
Children bullied at Nauru schools
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.
Few refugees accept cash to go home
Advocate claims inducement increased to $20,000
Solomons dive business up for global award
SOLOMON ISLANDS – A small dive operation in the Solomon Islands has been short-listed for the 2016 Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards.
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