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.
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.
A SAFE and effective vaccine against the Zika virus is an important step closer, with the results of a major study published in the journal Nature.
Commission of inquiry to probe university violence
SAMOA – Ipuniu Ioane, father of the late transgender Samoan Jeanine Ioane has forgiven those allegedly responsible for the death of Jeanine Tuivaiki, who he refers to as his son.
SAMOA – A Samoan church leader has questioned the belief that transgender fa’afafines are part of Samoan culture.
samoa – The Samoa Ombudsman says the Samoa Observer newspaper’s coverage of the death of transgender woman Jeanine Tuivaiki was disrespectful.
SAMOA – The Samoa Fa’afafine Association has accepted an apology by the Samoa Observer regarding the newspaper’s front page that depicted the death of the late Jeanine Tuivaiki.
WEST PAPUA – Solomon Islands’ diplomat in Geneva has told the UN Human Rights Council’s 32nd session about an eroding human rights situation in Indonesia’s Papua region.
FIJI – Sitiveni Rabuka has the political acumen to put up a good challenge to Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama at the next election, according to a Fijian academic.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – An uneasy calm prevails around the University of Technology in the Papua New Guinea city of Lae after a student was killed there on Saturday night.
FIJI – Interpol has been called to help police in Fiji investigate the discovery of body parts on a beach near Sigatoka.
Government considers a state of emergency
WEST PAPUA – Indonesia has strongly rejected statements about West Papua by Vanuatu and Solomon Islands at the UN Human Rights Council session last week.
MEXICO – South Africa’s Grant “Twiggy” Baker has taken out the Puerto Escondido Big Wave Tour Challenge in firing 20-to-35-foot surf that saw Hawaiian champion Makuakai Rothman injured in the final.
west papua – Allegations of human rights abuses in Indonesia’s Papua region, or West Papua, have been highlighted at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
FIJI – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says a shortage of fresh fruit, vegetables and fish in the wake of Cyclone Winston is leading to cases of malnutrition.
FIJI – The new leader of the main opposition Sodelpa party says he has given a special apology to the women of Fiji for his part in the 1987 coups.
FIJI – A doctor in Fiji says the large number of amputations that have to be undertaken because of diabetes is depressing.
NAURU – A former President of Nauru says he’s dismayed there is little international reaction against the treatment of elected MPs in his country.
Tear gas used to disperse rioting ‘marauders’ PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A student is dead and buildings have been b
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – While Britain is distancing itself from Europe, Papua New Guinea has this week been celebrating its close ties to Scandinavia.
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