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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.
Truck carrying cyanide crashes into river
SUVA – A truck carrying a container of sodium cyanide to which crashed into a river in Fiji on Tuesday is yet to be removed. Authorities say so far there is no evidence of a toxic spill— although there have been varying reports.
Peter's Village unscathed in cyclone
KOROPITA – Cheap, sturdy houses designed by an Australian man have survived Fiji’s devastating cyclone with barely a scratch and provide a potential blueprint for reconstruction efforts.
Mummified sailor had heart attack
BAROBO – A German sailor whose mummified body was found on a yacht adrift off the southern Philippines last week died of a heart attack about a week earlier, an autopsy report says.
Cyclone Winston: After the storm
SUVA – Cyclone Winston which hit Fiji nine days ago has caused an estimated US$19.4 million worth of damage to schools throughout the country.
Police plead not guilty to rape charges
SUVA – Eight suspended Fiji policemen and a military officer have pleaded not guilty to rape charges in relation to the death in police custody of Vilikesa Soko in 2014.
Fiji's neighbours providing aid
SUVA – Differences are being put aside between Fiji and its neighbours, as aid keeps flowing in to the cyclone ravaged country.
Violence victims lack protection
PORT MORESBY – International medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières says a lack of legal protection and safe houses is increasing the effect of violence against women and children in Papua New Guinea
PNG ferry owner charged again
KOKOPO – The owner of the ill-fated Papua New Guinea ferry MV Rabaul Queen Peter Sharp has been arrested again.
Report outlines strategic importance of Tonga's territory
NUKU‘ALOFA – Tonga is grappling with the security of its extensive coastline as well as policing of its 676,401 square kilometres of Pacific Ocean territory.
Cyclone victims are helping themselves
Fiji’s remote interior has only received its first supplies almost a week after Cyclone Winston, reports Radio New Zealand’s Alex Perrottet, from Nadalei, Fiji.
PNG must expect weather extremes
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister has spoken out about recovery activities underway following concurrent disasters involving both drought and heavy rains in various parts of the country.
Fiji has to 'start from scratch'
SUVA – The death toll from Cyclone Winston has risen by one to 43.
Bainimarama hailed as a 'messiah'
silana – Cyclone-hit villagers have hailed Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama as a biblical “messiah”.
'Destruction hard to comprehend'
SOSO – Humanitarian aid agency Care Australia is helping Fijians in the devastated Soso village in the Yasawa Islands, after the devastating impact of category five Cyclone Winston.
Winston's media honeymoon is over
PACIFIC VIEWPOINT By Gray Clapham CI News Regional Editor
Village hero killed by cyclone
NASEIBITU – Atunaisa Raralevu was determined to save 15 people trapped in a house at the height of Tropical Cyclone Winston at Naseibitu Village in Tailevu.
John John wins giant wave challenge
WAIMEA BAY – Brock Little would have absolutely loved it. The epic drops, the brutal carnage, the rowdy crowd, and the big-wave brotherhood gathering at Waimea Bay for just the ninth running of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, the same sacred event that made Little famous.
Disaster affecting thousands of children
SUVA – The tens of thousands of children in Fiji affected by Cyclone Winston must receive the right psychosocial support, says the aid agency Unicef.
Aid effort 'missing the boat'
AUCKLAND – A Pacific community leader in Auckland is upset at what he calls “a heartless approach” from the New Zealand government to the collection of aid for cyclone-hit Fiji.
Fiji: Nearly 60,000 people homeless
SUVA – The damage bill from Cyclone Winston in Fiji has already reached $650 million, the government says, with thousands of people still living in evacuation centres.
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