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No debt in China deal
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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
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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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.
Bethany Hamilton earns wildcard into the Fiji Pro
FIJI – Bethany Hamilton is a damn legend, writes Toby Aimer for surfing website Inertia.
Surfers prepare to battle at Cloudbreak
FIJI – The world’s hottest men and women surfers are heading to Fiji this week as the World Surf League begins the Pacific islands leg of the world circuit.
Students want their money back
PAPUA NEW GUINEA –The University of Papua New Guinea students’ representative council president Kenneth Rapa says the university must give boycotting students their airline tickets to return to their respective homes and government sponsorship be refunded in cash to the students.
Students 'won't back down'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA– Protesting university students in Papua New Guinea say they will not back down from their calls for the prime minister to resign.
Boycott forces university to close
PORT MORESBY – Authorities have suspended the University of Papua New Guinea’s first semester for an indefinite period, effectively ending a student boycott of classes.
Church leaders involved in sorcery-related killing
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Police in the Papua New Guinea Highlands say they want to speak to a group of church pastors in relation to an incident of torture and murder of a woman accused of sorcery.
Purse seiner successfully pulled off Marshalls reef
MARSHALL ISLANDS – A large Taiwanese fishing vessel was successfully pulled off a reef in the Marshall Islands capital, Majuro, late on Friday, over a week after it ran aground.
Signs of increasing child poverty in Tonga
TONGA – There are signs that child poverty is growing in Tonga, Radio New Zealand has reported.
Vanuatu rower picked for Olympics
VANUATU – A Vanuatu sportsman has become the first rower from his country to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
Bougainville referendum date set
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Bougainville President John Momis and Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill have agreed to work towards a 2019 referendum on independence, following a meeting in Port Moresby last week.
Allegations 'make no sense'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has attempted to answer questions surrounding longstanding allegations of corruption levelled against him.
PM tells students: 'I won't step down'
O’Neill attempts to diffuse escalating protests
Archbishop calls sex abuse allegations malicious
GUAM – There are calls for Guam’s Archbishop to stand down after an accusation of historical sexual abuse was made against him.
Domestic violence a long-term challenge
There is hope for Papua New Guinea and Australia’s shared domestic violence challenge, writes Denga Ilave, operations manager for Femili PNG. Femili PNG is a NGO based in Lae that runs a Case Management Centre to assist survivors of family and sexual violence.
Comments undo violence initiatives
FIJI – Fiji’s Parliamentary Speaker is refusing to apologise for saying that women sometimes cause domestic violence.
Police to remain on campus
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A police presence will be maintained at the University of Papua New Guinea’s main campus in Port Moresby to discourage more protests and assemblies by striking students and also to protect state property, the Post -Courier newspaper reports.
Student protest gains momentum
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The deadline set by protesting students for Papua New Guinea’s prime minister to step down has passed, with little word on whether they will follow through on their threat of a mass withdrawal.
Nauru should be cause for concern
NAURU – Canberra could do a lot more to encourage a move back to good governance in Nauru, according to an Australian academic.
Use of term 'Fijian' still a sensitive issue
FIJI – It’s a hundred years since the end of Fiji’s indentured labour system which saw thousands of Indians arrive to work in the country’s sugar plantations.
Injured guards seek compensation
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Two former Wilson Security guards are desperately seeking compensation from the security company after they were injured at Australia’s offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
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