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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.
Welding work caused fuel tank fire
APIA – An investigation is underway to determine the cause of an explosion at one of the diesel fuel storage tanks on the wharf at Apia on Tuesday.
Police will enforce evacuations
FIJI – Fiji police say they will forcefully evacuate people who refuse to move to safety.
Saturated Fiji braces for cyclone
FIJI – One person is reported dead and another missing in the heavy rain and flooding that has saturated Fiji over the past few days.
Weather hits Fiji's poorest
FIJI – Continuous bad weather over the past few weeks has started to take its toll on some of Fiji’s poorest.
Heavy rains a major setback for Fiji
FIJI – Evacuation centres have reopened in Fiji after heavy rain and flooding since Sunday.
Fiji hit by widespread flooding
FIJI – Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Fiji, just over a month since Cyclone Winston battered the country.
One dead in fuel tank inferno
SAMOA – An explosion followed by a raging inferno at the main fuel depot in Samoa’s capital, Apia, on Monday local time killed one person and injured one other.
Tensions rising over squatter settlements
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Tensions are rising in Solomon Islands over the encroachment onto Guadalcanal provincial lands by residents from the capital Honiara.
Fast-sailing cargo ships of Melanesia
The Fijian drua were large and fast – reaching speeds of up to fifteen knots in a good wind. They were among the most finely crafted vessels in Fiji, similar in design to the Samoan ‘alia and the Tongan kalia.
Plan to restore Fiji's only original drua
FIJI – A group of conservators from New Zealand’s Te Papa Mueum is in Fiji to advise on the restoration of one of Fiji’s oldest and last remaining double-hull sailing canoes, the Ratu Finau.
Guam seeks vote on its political status
GUAM – Voters in Guam may finally get the chance to vote on the territory’s political status, with the governor announcing an ambitious plan to add a plebiscite, or referendum, to November’s general election ballot.
No faith in police commissioner
FIJI – The former Fiji Police head of intelligence and investigations says he has no confidence in the country’s recently confirmed Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho.
Sheriff guilty, not Fiji PM
FIJI – Fiji’s Prime Minister didn’t plagiarise someone else’s Easter message after all.
Tsunami threat passes
VANUATU – The tsunami threat from a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off Vanuatu has largely passed, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWS) says.
Fiji bracing for weather bomb
FIJI – People in Fiji are being warned of heavy rain and flash flooding over the next few days.
Tusi Pisi signs for Bristol
SAMOA – Samoan rugby union international Tusi Pisi has signed with English Premiership Championship rugby club Bristol ahead of the 2016/17 season on a two year deal.
Samoa's prison inadequate
SAMOA – The shocking state of Samoa’s Tafa’igata Prison facilities, which is housing a growing number of prisoners, has been highlighted once more.
Sacked Tonga coach not paid a cent so far
TONGA – The sacked Tonga sevens coach Andy Katoa says he has not been paid at all during his 18 months at the helm.
Global obesity epidemic getting worse
Over 12 per cent of adults are now obese, a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to 20 per cent by 2025, a major survey reported Friday.
Tonga PM dismisses claims he's blanking media
TONGA – The prime minister of Tonga has rejected criticism that he and his government are not making themselves available to the media.
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