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Tahiti sailors win 2024 Regatta in Raro

Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.

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Former PM Puna first Cook Islander elected to East-West Center Board

Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Somare urges O'Neill to surrender

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s first prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, has called for current prime minister Peter O’Neill to respect the rule of law and stand down.

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PNG doubts Australia's commitment

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea has called on the Australian government to restrict coal mining amid doubts about the effectiveness of the Paris Agreement on carbon emissions.

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Psychological trauma ongoing

FIJI – Hundreds of people in villages all over Fiji are in a desperate psychological state, say counsellors helping people recover after Cyclone Winston.

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Samoas brace for cyclone's wrath

PACIFIC – As world leader gathered in New York to sign a historic climate change deal, Pacific islanders are anxiously watching the threatening approach of yet another tropical cyclone.

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Royal stoush sees conference moved

WALLIS AND FUTUNA – A Pacific Community (SPC)conference due to be held in Wallis and Futuna this week has been moved to New Caledonia because of the tension emanating from the installation of two rival kings over the weekend.

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Ousted government welcomes 'challenge'

KIRIBATI – The former ruling party in Kiribati, Boutokaan te Koaua, of BTK, has publicly welcomed its defeat in the presidential election.

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Big names unable to boost Samoa's sevens

SAMOA – Samoa has admitted defeat in its efforts to secure some high profile fifteen-a-side stars to boost their chances of qualifying for the Olympic sevens competition.

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It was the hottest March since records kept

PACIFIC – Record breaking temperatures worldwide last month is not good news for the Pacific’s low-lying islands.

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Bank defends doing business on Nauru

NAURU – Australia’s Bendigo Bank is facing calls to close down its operations in Nauru, after Westpac announced it would cut ties with the island nation’s government.

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Tax exemption reversal celebrated

SOLOMON ISLANDS – Campaigners in the Solomon Islands are celebrating a High Court decision to reverse a controversial tax exemption for MPs’ salaries.

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Fiji students pledge to be good

FIJI – School students in Fiji are to make eight promises every morning as part of acompulsory nationwide initiative the Ministry of Education hopes will raise national pride, reduce absenteeism, bullying and disruptive behaviour – and even curb unwise sexual activities.

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Rescued after nine days adrift

FIJI – In Fiji, an 18-year-old youth has been found after drifting at sea for nine days.

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Cyclone intensifies after about turn

PACIFIC – On Thursday evening Tropical Cyclone Amos was moving southeast and intensifying but remained largely over open water as it headed towards the Samoas.

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'Torment and brutality on Australia's gulags'

PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Dr Binoy Kampmark Lecturer Melbourne University

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Fears of another Nauru attempted suicide charge

NAURU – Refugee advocates in Australia are concerned that another refugee will be charged with attempted suicide after Nauru police arrested a 38-year-old Iranian refugee this week.

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Fiji Football embracing daunting Olympic draw

FIJI – Fiji admit they face an “almighty challenge” after being drawn against football giants Mexico, Germany and South Korea for their Olympic debut in Rio later this year.

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Forecasters watching Cyclone Amos

PAcific – A new tropical cyclone has developed in the Pacific several hundred kilometres west of Samoa and about the same distance northeast of Fiji

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Nine villages on Fiji island to be relocated

FIJI – About 3000 people from nine coastal villages on the Fiji island of Ovalau in the Lomaiviti Archipelago will be relocated because of the devastation caused by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston.

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'Yet to receive restraining orders'

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea Police Commissioner Gari Baki said he has not received the court summons restraining him from suspending National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate (NFACD) boss Mathew Damaru.

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PNG police boss 'not rational'

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s former attorney-general says the country’s police commissioner has become too emotionally involved in the ongoing fracas involving the country’s fraud squad and its investigation into the Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill.

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