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No debt in China deal
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$541.7m tourism earnings
25 January 2025
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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10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
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
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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
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Tenants face water bill burden
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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.
Anti-fraud office must reopen
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner says he will follow a recommendation from the country’s Supreme Court to reopen the anti-corruption unit he closed last month.
Ukeleles replace the organ at Bill Sevesi's funeral
NEW ZEALAND – Family and friends gathered in New Zealand on Monday to celebrate the life of renowned musician Bill Sevesi where the organ was replaced by the ukulele at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell.
Wreck of Cook's Endeavour found
USA – Researchers believe they have found the wreck of HMS Endeavour, which carried Captain James Cook on his exploration of the Pacific.
PNG's opposition leader 'suspended'
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s opposition leader’s 2012 election victory has been stayed by the National Court.
Mega-resort planned on remote island
MICRONESIA – Plans to build a Chinese “mega-resort” on a remote Micronesian island have local politicians fearing residents will be shunted from their homes and “reduced to just doing cultural dances” for tourists.
Medical treatment criticised
NAURU – The Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre was without doctor’s care for two hours at the medical facility and lay in agony for a further eight hours in Nauru’s hospital before morphine was administered, his wife says.
Female refugee sets herself on fire
NAURU – A 21-year-old female refugee has set herself alight on Nauru in what is the second attempted suicide by self-immolation on the island in a week.
A heavy-handed act of regression
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Geoffrey Robertson QC Human Rights lawyer
Australian sentenced to 14 years in Fiji
FIJI – An Australian man has been sentenced to 14 years’ jail in Fiji after being found guilty of possessing nearly 50 kilograms of cocaine.
Aid deal must be maintained
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Manus Island MP Ronnie Knight said he expects Australia to keep funding projects it agreed to as part of the refugee processing detention centre deal.
Lawyer seeks to make Australia liable
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The lawyer representing hundreds of asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island will this week seek a court order to make Australia legally liable for those at the detention centre.
Room for Manus men on Nauru
NAURU – Nauru has room for the 850 men from Manus Island’s detention centre, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says, but he is stressing the Australian Government remains in talks about the options available in Papua New Guinea.
Quake felt widely in Vanuatu
VANUATU – Disaster authorities in Vanuatu’s Malampa province say over 1000 people are returning to their villages after this Thursday’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
2017 Vanuatu Mini Games in jeopardy
VANUATU – The Pacific Games Association of Vanuatu is threatening to ask the Pacific Games Council to rescind its 2017 10th anniversary Pacific Mini Games hosting commitment if urgent action by the government is not taken to release promised funding.
Fate of Manus detainees remains unknown
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – On Monday, PNG’s supreme court rule detention of asylum seekers and refugees to be unconstitutional and illegal, and ordered its end “forthwith”.
Islanders occupy government grounds
NORFOLK ISLAND – Protesters against the Australian government’s decision to take control of Norfolk Island are occupying the grounds of the former legislative assembly and refusing to leave.
Omid honoured as a martyr
NAURU – A human rights group said Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has “blood on his hands” after the refugee who set himself alight in protest on Nauru died on Thursday.
Refugee dies after self-immolation
BRISBANE – An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre has died in a Brisbane hospital, Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed.
Ruling a good day for human rights
The PNG court’s ruling on the Manus Island detention centre won’t bring Australia’s disgraceful offshore detention programme to an end, but it is a solid blow and offers hope of further change, writes ABC columnist Michael Bradley.
Quake sparks tsunami alert
VANUATU – A tsunami warning issued after a shallow magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu was cancelled by mid-morning yesterday.
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