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No debt in China deal
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Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
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Police need numbers and bigger budget
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Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
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DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
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Cook Islands has its first mosque
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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
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Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
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CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Tenants face water bill burden
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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.
Optimism in reversing NCD crisis prevails
TONGA – Reversing the Non-communicable Disease (NCD) epidemic in the Pacific region will require new ways of working together, Pacific Leaders were exhorted this week by UNDP Administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark.
World Bank focuses on what is possible
TONGA – A new World Bank report has put the spotlight on the economic threat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) pose to the Pacific islands, with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease emerging as the top killers in the region.
Nauru report 'sanitised'
NAURU – A recent report on Nauru by Australia’s Nine Network has been criticised for imbalance.
Pacific challenged to fight NCDs
TONGA – Tonga’s health minister, Saia Piukala, has challenged Pacific governments to step up and be counted in the fight to address non-communicable diseases NCDs).
Injured in strong position to sue
VANUATU – Cruise ship passengers injured in an horrific head-on crash in Vanuatu are in a strong position to sue P&O, an Australian law firm has claimed.
Driver charged after fatal bus crash
P&O takes stock after cruise ship tourists injured
Inequality revealed in New Zealand dental care
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand dentists are being asked to “take a good hard look at themselves” following the latest survey to come out of Otago University. Researchers have found obvious inequalities when it comes to dental care and certain nationalities.
Shower curtain murals 'profoundly insulting'
NEW ZEALAND – An American online store selling shower curtains depicting historic Maori is being called deplorable for the culturally inappropriate items.
Children dying of malnutrition in Vanuatu
VANUATU – Children are dying because of malnutrition in parts of Vanuatu more than a year after Cyclone Pam devastated crops and livelihoods across the Pacific island chain.
Suicide photograph shocks the world
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Adam Taylor Washington Post
Two bus collision leaves three dead
Australian tourists airlifted after crash in Vanuatu
Apology for use of suicide picture
SAMOA – The Samoan newspaper at the centre of a storm over its publication of a gruesomely explicit photograph of an apparent suicide has now printed a heart-felt apology.
Norfolk Islanders not ready to give up fight
NORFOLK ISLAND – One year on Norfolk is not giving up in its struggle with Canberra. A year ago, on June 18, 2015, the Australia Federal Parliament removed Norfolk Island’s autonomy.
Pacific countries top malnutrition report
TONGA – The first regional conference on the Pacific’s leading cause of death is underway in Tonga’s capital, Nuku‘alofa
Students demand apology for shootings
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Students in Papua New Guinea say they want justice for those shot by police before there is any talk of returning to classes.
Suicide photo shocks readers
SAMOA – The decision by one of Samoa’s major newspapers to publish a picture of a transgender woman who died in a suspected suicide has stirred outrage.
Worst trauma he's ever witnessed
Psychologist lifts the lid on detention centres
Fiji win crown, on track for World Cup
FIJI – Fiji secured the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2016 title and remain on track to qualify for Rugby World Cup 2019 after a 26-16 victory over Samoa in Suva on Saturday.
Polynesian Panthers mark 45 years
NEW ZEALAND – A group credited with fighting racism against Pacific people in New Zealand and putting them on the map politically celebrated 45 years last week.
Pacific could suffer if La Niña hits
PACIFIC – An Australian aid agency providing help for Pacific disaster victims says a La Niña weather pattern is a real threat for much of the region.
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