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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.

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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.

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.

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Public urged to refrain from speculation

FIJI – Fiji’s Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni

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PNG abandons university year

Chancellor says protest has turned into mob rule

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Second body found on beach

Reports of a chainsaw missing from murdered couple’s farm

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'A lot of work to do'

Rabuka prepared to step down

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Couple were 'behaving strangely'

FIJI – Murdered Russian couple Yuri Shipulin and wife, Natalia had started behaving strangely seven days before they mysteriously disappeared last month, the Fiji Sun has reported.

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Severed head found on Fiji beach

DNA confirms body parts from missing Russians

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Partnership leads world in sustainably-caught tuna

PACIFIC – A partnership between Pacific Island nations means Australia is now leading the world in the availability of sustainably-caught tinned tuna on supermarket shelves.

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Body parts await DNA test results from Russia

FIJI – Police investigations are continuing in relation to the discovery of human body parts at Fiji’s Natadola Beach last week.

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Brexit may soften isolationist views

PACIFIC – A backlash against isolationism following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union could bode well for trade deals in the Pacific.

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Record cocaine seizure in Auckland

NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand police have seized a record NZ$14 million worth of cocaine hidden inside a large diamante-encrusted horse head from Mexico.

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Sonny Bill and sister off to Rio

NEW ZEALAND – Sonny Bill Williams and his sister Niall have achieved a rare double after both being named in New Zealand Olympic sevens squads bound for the Rio Olympics.

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Fiji wants more Super Rugby

FIJI – Fiji’s Prime Minister has put his hand up for the country to be given another opportunity to host a Super Rugby game.

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Polynesians upset by obese Maui

Disney movie accused of stereotypical depiction

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Rio Tinto severs PNG mining links

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Rio Tinto will sever mining links with resource-rich Papua New Guinea, relinquishing ownership of the Panguna copper mine on Bougainville island which has been closed for around 25 years after a secessionist rebellion.

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Australia takes over Norfolk Island

NORFOLK ISLAND – Despite strong opposition over the past year Australia yesterday legally removed political autonomy from Norfolk Island.

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