Fiji's Prime Minister is set to restore a backbencher to cabinet after she appeared in a private video dancing naked.
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.
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Dr Binoy Kampmark Lecturer Melbourne University
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 – 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.
PAcific – A new tropical cyclone has developed in the Pacific several hundred kilometres west of Samoa and about the same distance northeast of Fiji
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.
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.
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.
SAMOA – Samoan matriarch Mitavale Levaopolo Sione, born April 18, 1907, celebrated her 109th birthday this week, making her possibly the oldest person in Samoa.
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.
FIJI – Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people is essentially about “telling the truth”.
VANUATU – Vanuatu’s Council of Ministers has reiterated that it won’t accept the appointment of the Fijian Amena Yauvoli as new director-general of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Two men found guilty of murdering asylum seeker Reza Barati will spend just over three more years in prison, Papua New Guinea police say.
SAMOA – A report from an inquiry into the diesel fuel tank explosion at Apia’s Matautu Wharf three weeks ago has suggested a mixture of petroleum and diesel may have caused the tank explosion sparked by welding works.
NORTHERN MARIANAS – The former department of public safety commissioner in the Northern Marianas, James Deleon Guerrero, has been arrested.
TONGA – The Tonga government has agreed to cover debts owed by the Tonga Rugby Union as part of a tripartite agreement reached following talks with World Rugby.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Police in Papua New Guinea’s southern highlands province of Hela have warned public servants to refrain from inciting tribal fights.
A deadly new strain of drug resistant tuberculosis is incubating on the small PNG island of Daru, 10 kilometres off Cape York, Australia’s most northern point. Infectious disease experts say the disease is ‘Ebola with wings’, and want Australia to lead a regional response. ABC reporter Jo Chandler travelled to Daru for this special report.
WALLIS AND FUTUNA – France is expected to announce who of the two kings installed in Wallis at the weekend is the legitimate one.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s opposition leader Don Polye has called for Police Commissioner Gary Baki to stop victimising his officers and let the investigation into Prime Minister Peter O’Neill take it’s course.
PORT MORESBY – Rival elements of Papua New Guinea’s police force are in open confrontation in Port Moresby.
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