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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.
Nauru candidates claim victory
Back down on fee hike ‘a win for democracy’
Maori leader is laid to rest
NEW ZEALAND – Revered Maori leader Sir Graham Latimer was farewelled by hundreds of mourners at a funeral in Northland on Saturday.
PM chose to lecture workshop in Samoan language
SAMOA – Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has explained why he chose to deliver a speech only in Samoan at a recent United Nations sponsored workshop.
Fiji PM wouldn't catch the diplomatic ball
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Key's Fiji mission dubbed 'a failure'
FIJI – Prime Minister John Key’s attempt to rebuild New Zealand’s relationship with Fiji has backfired on him, the New Zealand Labour Party says.
PNG calls for media accuracy
PAPUA NEW GUINEA –– A Foreign affairs spokesman has warned foreign media that irresponsible reporting about issues in Papua New Guinea may force the government to review their visas and face consequences.
Appeal for injured students
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A public fund raising campaign has been initiated in Papua New Guinea to help the critically injured students meet their medical fees.
Tension remains high in PNG
Calls for PM O’Neill to step down intensify
Top Pacific artists honoured at music awards
NEW ZEALAND – Te Vaka and Vince Harder have dominated this year’s Pacific Music Awards, which were announced at an event in Auckland on Thursday night.
Key's visit to Fiji seen as significant
FIJI – Prime Minister John Key says he and his Fijian counterpart will have to agree to disagree on Fiji’s blacklisting of some New Zealand journalists.
'Students breached by-laws'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Chief Secretary to the PNG government, Isaac Lupari, said that according to reports received from the UPNG management, students had breached university by-laws and the Student Representative Council Act by staging their boycott of classes over the past month.
Condemnation spreading
AUSTRALIA – Australian and Papua New Guinean students as well as trade union representatives picketed the Papua New Guinea Consulate in Sydney yesterday to express their anger at the shooting of unarmed university students.
Students traumatised by shootings
Unrest simmering around Papua New Guinea
Reporter ban defended
FIJI – Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama has staunchly defended his blacklisting of some New Zealand journalists.
Students regroup in wake of violence
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea university students are taking stock of the carnage from this week’s unrest where police opened fire on students at the University of Papua New Guinea’s Waigani Campus in Port Moresby. Police said 23 people were injured, including five critically, in the unrest, which came after police refused to allow students to walk to parliament. Most of those injured were students, understood to have been shot by police. No deaths have been reported. In the wake of the violence the university obtained a court order that disallowed students from taking actions which “are contrary to their enrolment” – in effect banning them from making further protests. Student Representatives Council member Hercules Jim said for now the campus was calm and the council was planning for the student body to meet to discuss what to do next. “We’re calling all the provincial leaders who represent each students in their own group to come and raise their views and see what is the next course of action. But that will take another two to three days. “But first of all now we are working around the clock to secure and get the names of students who have been injured and see who is missing. But the police are still present on the campus regardless.” He said, although university management had urged a return to class as the semester resumed this month, the student body at large would not back down on its demand for O’Neill’s resignation. Meanwhile, a Manus Island detainee who is in Port Moresby for medical treatment said he was afraid for his safety following the unrest. Siyavash Shakibnia and 16 other detainees are being kept at a hotel in the city while they receive hospital care. Shakibnia said he and two other detainees were in hospital when students shot by police arrived by ambulance. Shakibnia said one security guard and two supervisors were taking care of the 17 Manus Island detainees in Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea’s opposition is calling for parliament to sit again soon to address what it calls pressing issues of national importance. The parliament was on Wednesday adjourned to August amid concerns about the security situation in Port Moresby after police opened fire on the university students who planned to walk to Parliament to support the opposition’s planned vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. The opposition leader Don Polye has slammed the police actions, calling for those behind the shootings to be imprisoned. Meanwhile he indicated the opposition would take legal action to have parliament sit before August when a grace period protecting governments from votes of no-confidence comes into play. “This government and the parliament are running away from addressing an issue that is within their mandate to find solutions to.” “Therefore the opposition is very vehement on this and we will address it by way of the court application where we would like to see an urgent answer or ruling given by the Supreme Court,” he said. Jonathan Pryke, a research fellow at Sydney think tank the Lowy Institute, has warned that O’Neill’s refusal to meet protest leaders risked fuelling further unrest, especially with the country’s economy suffering from the global slump in
Students to continue protests
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea university students have signalled they will continue to boycott classes in their ongoing protest against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
'We can handle these matters'
O’Neill brushes off concerns over protest shooting
Climate funds access difficult
FIJI – Accessing climate change funds remains a challenge for Fiji.
Meeting seen as symbolic
FIJI – This week’s meeting between the prime ministers of Fiji and New Zealand is hugely symbolic and significant according to an academic specialising in regional security.
Scenes of chaos as police open fire
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – There are fears for the wellbeing of a number of students who remain missing after Wednesday’s unrest at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby when police opened fire on students at the University of PNG ahead of a planned rally at parliament.
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