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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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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.
Party 'camps' should be stopped
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The practice in Papua New Guinea of keeping national parliamentarians in “camps” in the lead-up to a vote of no confidence or a government formation period should be abandoned.
O'Neill wins confidence vote
Positive vote for PNG PM unlikely to end unrest
Samoa's PM defends his 60 Minutes responses
SAMOA – Samoa’s prime minister has reacted to criticism of his interview with 60 Minutes, which he says was “was skewed to fit in with the 60 Minutes Television Show’s angle of diminishing Samoa’s efforts at improving its prison systems – and in painting Samoa as a dangerous tourist destination.”
MPS given payments ahead of vote
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A Papua New Guinea Treasury source has revealed that the government has ordered a payment of US$900,000 to each government MP at the so-called ‘Alotau retreat’.
MP fumes over cigarette factory
SAMOA – There has been heavy criticism in Samoa of a government decision to issue a second cigarette manufacturing licence to a foreign-owned company in Apia.
Samoa to focus on tourist safety
SAMOA – Samoa police will hold awareness programmes in villages throughout the country on how best to provide support and better protection for tourists.
Day of reckonng for PNG's PM
Unions threaten strike action if O’Neill wins vote
Injured Australian praises emergency and medical staff
SAMOA – As the Australian public had been told of a young couples harrowing holiday experience in a 60 Minutes report that posed questions about Samoa’s safety as a tourist destination, another female Australian visitor has sung its praises.
Auckland's future on a single data storage stick
NEW ZEALAND – A humble USB data stick will today be handed to the Auckland Council containing the plan that will shape Auckland for the next decades.
Tomorrow: Samoa's prime minister reacts to criticism.
Maori vote catcher, or political train crash?
Samoa tourism in damage control mode
SAMOA – The man entrusted with the task of selling Samoa as a tourism destination to the world remains upbeat.
'We promised reality, not the moon'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – We are not a government that promised the moon, we promised reality for our people.”
PM's interview 'shames Samoa'
Critic says not all Samoans are so ‘dumb and callous’
'Criminals waltz in and out of prison at will'
The multiple escapes from Samoa’s top prison by a serial criminal who attacked an Australian honeymoon couple last year has done Samoa a lot of damage, writes Samoa Observer editor Mata’afa Keni Lesa.
60 Minutes report a blow to Samoa
SAMOA – Samoa is reeling this week in the wake of a damning current affairs report by Australia’s 60 Minutes programme.
State owned firms draining Pacific economies
PACIFIC – State owned enterprises in the Pacific are a significant drain on island economies according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank.
Pressure on as vote looms
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Pressure continues to build on Papua New Guinea’s prime minister to stand down to face fraud allegations.
Medical charity cancels PNG visit
Political upheaval scares off heart surgery team
'Rogue' police set traps at traffic lights in Samoa
SAMOA – The Office of the Ombudsman in Samoa has been receiving reports that members of the public are being stopped by police officers on traffic duty for “no good reason”.
Fiji diplomatic ties becoming 'normalised'
FIJI – As tensions around a history of military coups continue to fade, Fiji’s diplomatic and trade relationship with Australia has almost normalised, according to a senior Fijian government minister.
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