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Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Pacific
Cook Islands National Council of Women welcomes NZ High Commissioner
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (CINCW) welcomed New Zealand’s new high commissioner to the Cook Islands, Catherine Graham, at their office in Takuvaine yesterday.
PM Brown confident in Pacific Islands Forum leadership despite political change in Tonga
The sudden resignation of Tonga’s former prime minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni had left a temporary gap in the leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown remains confident that the situation will soon stabilise.
Interference claims dog election
NAURU – About eight thousand Nauruans will cast their votes today in the island nation’s general election.
Human trafficking concerns
MARSHALL ISLANDS – Papua New Guinea and the Marshall Islands have received the worst ranking in a United States government report on human trafficking.
Village priest had affair with schoolgirl
samoa – A Catholic priest at on Savai’i has left his village in the wake of an alleged sex scandal there where he was caught sleeping with a Year 13 student.
PNG student leader has no regrets about boycott
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A student leader from the University of Papua New Guinea says he has no regrets about the protest that led to the cancellation of the academic year.
Garbage patch clean up prototype launched
PACIFIC – As scientists look to find a way to rid the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch of thousands of tonnes of waste plastic, a prototype ocean cleaning system has been deployed in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands.
Samoa close to setting up media watchdog
SAMOA– The executive committee of the Journalists Association of Samoa,known by the acronym JAWS, has started the process of establishing a media council to receive and investigate complaints from the public about local news media coverage.
UPNG shutdown disappoints
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Education Minister Nick Kuman is disappointed with the University of Papua New Guinea’s (UPNG) decision to close the 2016 academic year.
O'Neill moves to save academic year
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, says his government is negotiating with the University of PNG in an effort to save the academic year.
Food aid arrives in Highlands
Villagers say they have been hungry for a year
Nauru opposition claims campaign interference
NAURU – The Nauru MP and former president, Sprent Dabwido, says he suspects the government has intervened to stop local media from running the opposition’s campaign advertising material.
Guam seeks to determine its future
guam – For four centuries, the small western Pacific island of Guam has been passed between colonial powers, but within weeks the territory is expected to decide whether to embark on a quest to determine its own political future.
Tahiti seen as global gateway for Zika
FRENCH POLYNESIA – A new study has revealed French Polynesia is a potential gateway for viruses like Zika entering other parts of the world.
Public urged to refrain from speculation
FIJI – Fiji’s Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni
PNG abandons university year
Chancellor says protest has turned into mob rule
Second body found on beach
Reports of a chainsaw missing from murdered couple’s farm
'A lot of work to do'
Rabuka prepared to step down
Peace agreement 'endangered'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government has accused the Papua New Guinea Government of endangering the Bougainville peace agreement and lying about its dealings with mining giant Rio Tinto.
Sacked police officer makes plea for help
SAMOA – A former Samoan police constable who was sacked in a furore of controversy earlier this year, is a desperate man.
Polynesians criss-crossed the Pacific
POLYNESIA – Early Polynesian sailors criss-crossed the Pacific for hundreds of years, travelling as far as 2500 kilometres on ocean voyages, according to a new chemical analysis of centuries-old stone tools.
Fears unrest inquiry will be a 'whitewash'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea opposition MP and former Attorney General, Kerenga Kua, says the Commission of Inquiry into unrest at the nation’s universities is likely to be a whitewash.
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