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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rescued after nine days adrift
FIJI – In Fiji, an 18-year-old youth has been found after drifting at sea for nine days.
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.
'Torment and brutality on Australia's gulags'
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Dr Binoy Kampmark Lecturer Melbourne University
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.
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.
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
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.
'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.
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.
109-year-old birthday girl says every day is a blessing
SAMOA – Samoan matriarch Mitavale Levaopolo Sione, born April 18, 1907, celebrated her 109th birthday this week, making her possibly the oldest person in Samoa.
93 per cent of Barrier Reef hit by coral bleaching
AUSTRALIA – Almost 93 per cent of reefs on the Great Barrier Reef have been hit by coral bleaching, according to a comprehensive survey revealing the full extent of the devastation caused by abnormally warm ocean temperatures sweeping the globe.
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