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No debt in China deal
8 February 2025
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
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
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7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Pacific
Cook Islander describes ‘severe’ impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred in Australia
Cook Islander Archie Atiau says the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which affected South East Queensland and the New South Wales North Coast, Australia, has been severe.
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.
Scores arrested at Papua protests
WEST PAPUA – Reports say 44 West Papuans were arrested by Indonesian police during demonstrations across Papua region yesterday.
12 killed in PNG light plane crash
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – An Australian pilot is among 12 people who were killed when a light plane crashed as it tried to land in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says.
Nauru MPs seek to crowd-fund legal costs
NAURU – Five suspended MPs in Nauru are seeking international financial help with their legal representation.
Samoa marks start of whale awareness initiative
SAMOA – Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa,has launched a project to raise awareness on whales and their conservation.
Catholic archbishop calls stigmata a 'blessing'
SAMOA – The head of the Catholic Church in Samoa, Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga described the appearance of a young woman with Christ’s stigmata as a “blessing” for Samoa.
Pacific paddlers blamed for Zika outbreak
The current Zika outbreak in Brazil may have had its origins in Polynesia, says new research speculating the virus was brought to South America by Pacific island canoeing teams competing in Rio in 2014.
Residents benefit little from tax havens
PACIFIC – A New Zealand-based security analyst says leaked documents showing several Pacific island countries to be tax havens have come as little surprise.
Demonstrations underway across West Papua
WEST PAPUA – Demonstrations in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua have been taking place in cities across Indonesia’s Papua region today.
Manslaughter charges count reduced
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A judge has significantly reduced the number of manslaughter charges against the Australian owner of a ferry that sank off Papua New Guinea more than four years ago, killing scores of people.
Families still wait for shelter
FIJI – Families in some Fijian villages are still waiting for tents and remain in badly damaged homes they say are dangerously unstable.
Cane farmers told to tighten belts
FIJI – The Fiji Sugar Corporation has urged sugar farmers to grit their teeth after a devastating few weeks for the industry.
Warnings follow dam spill
HONIARA – Health authorities in Solomon Islands have warned villagers living downstream of the defunct Gold Ridge mine on Guadalcanal island not to use river water because it could be contaminated by arsenic.
PNG's attorney-general arrested
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s attorney-general and Justice Minister, Ano Pala, have been arrested and charged with abuse of office and misappropriation, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests in the country this week.
NZ promoting its fisheries management to the Pacific
NEW ZEALAND – About 40 Pacific fisheries ministers and officials are in New Zealand to learn about this country’s approach to fisheries management.
Cry for more help from remote Fijian village
Radio New Zealand International reporter Sally Round hopped onboard one of the last runs made by a New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter to deliver aid to a remote part of Fiji.
West Papua visit hailed by Catholic women
WEST PAPUA – A Catholic Womens group in West Papua has called for regional support for their people’s plight, after a visit to the Indonesian territory by Catholic Bishops from other parts of Melanesia.
Pacific struggles to shake tax haven reputation
SAMOA – Leaked documents showing several Pacific island countries to be tax havens have come as little surprise to some experts, while Samoa’s government has come to the defence of its financial regulations.
Belief in veracity of stigmata divides Samoa
SAMOA – The story of a young mother claiming to be carrying the marks – or stigmata – of Jesus Christ’s suffering continues to dominate the national discussion in Samoa.
Micronesian island eyes independence
CHUUK – There is an independence push that could see the break-up of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the North Pacific.
Apia fuel storage fire a 'wake up call'
SAMOA – A hotelier and a prominent samoan businessman has issued a warning to the government in the wake of the deadly fuel tank fire at the Matautu wharf in Apia last week.
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