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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.
Suing Samoa police for a million tala
SAMOA – Samoa’s Police Commissioner, Fuiavailili Egon Keil, has declined to comment on a million tala lawsuit being filed against him, the Minister of Police Sala Fata Pinati and the Ministry of Police by an unhappy member of the public.
Solomons reconciliation celebrated
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Organisers of a week of reconciliation ceremonies held in Solomon Islands say the programme is a first step towards national healing.
Blame and apology for 'chaos'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea Works Minister Francis Awesa says the country risks disintegrating into small fragmented ethnic groupings controlled by illegally armed warlords.
Nauru's election results awaited
NAURU – The 8000 registered voters on Nauru went to the polls yesterday after what independent observers say were free and fair election campaigns, despite disagreement between government and opposition candidates over campaign advertising.
12-year-old author in London for launch of book
SAMOA – Twelve-year-old Samoan student Lupeoaunu’u Va’ai won a gold medal award for her story The Voice of an Island in the UN-partnered Voices of Future Generations children’s story writing competition last year.
NZ women MP's mentor Pacific counterparts
NEW ZEALAND – Women MPs from New Zealand are helping their counterparts in the Pacific to operate better in their own parliaments.
Norfolk Islanders down but not out
NORFOLK ISLAND – It is one week into the controversial Australian administration of Norfolk Island but many of the locals say they will continue to press for the return of their autonomy.
Guard paid to keep quiet about assault
NAURU – Wilson Security paid at least one Australian security guard to keep quiet about an alleged sexual assault of a local Manus Island worker, in a number of separate payments of up to $15,000 made by the company.
Fiji police go quiet on murders
FIJI – Fiji police say they will not be making any further public comments about the killing of Russians Yuri Shipulin and Nataliya Gerasimova until the investigation is completed.
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.
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