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No debt in China deal
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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
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DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
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Cook Islands has its first mosque
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CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
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RAC to address mosque legality
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Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
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CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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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.
Valerie Adams ties the knot
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand’s Tongan-born shotput star Valerie Adams has tied the knot with her long-time friend Gabriel Price in a small Mormon ceremony at Temple View in Hamilton.
Kiribati announces new priorities
KIRIBATI – Decentralisation, free education and a lift in copra prices are some of the priorities of the administration of Kiribati’s new president Taneti Maamau.
Apia 'could have been blown up'
SAMOA – Suggestions that the fire at one of the fuel tanks at Apia’s Matautu Wharf on Monday could have blown up the entire wharf area, destroying a large part of the Apia waterfront and placing hundreds of lives at risk, have been rejected by the fuel storage facility’s owner.
Mother sold six-year-old daughter for sex
TONGA – A Tongan woman who took her six-year-old daughter to the United States to be used as a sex toy has been jailed for 26 years.
Cost estimates for Games detailed
TONGA – Tonga will need to find up to NZ$73.6 million to fund the Pacific Games in 2019 according to a consultant’s report, but the real cost could be more than NZ$100 million, according to a report in Kaniva News.
Swimming in floodwaters banned
FIJI – Fiji’s Commissioner of Police said the main purpose of the Restriction of Movement order is to prevent loitering so that people who are not on essential duties can be ordered away from dangerous situations.
Fiji under curfew as cyclone passes
FIJI – Tropical cyclone Zena has weakened to a category two system as it leaves Fiji, the Fiji Meteorological Service says.
Authority cracks down on Nadi's pirate taxi drivers
FIJI – A total of thirty illegally operated or “pirate” taxis were seized in Nadi by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) last weekend.
Court clears way for case against PM O'Neill
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The director of Papua New Guinea’s police fraud and anti-corruption unit has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court to discharge orders preventing his team investigating the prime minister over alleged fraud.
Samoa's 'Panama Connection' revealed
SAMOA – An officer at Samoa’s high commission in Australia routinely assisted Mossack Fonseca in creating shell companies, files from the firm reveal.
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.
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