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23 September 2024
Parliament’s 12 sitting days sufficient for business: Clerk
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23 September 2024
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23 September 2024
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21 September 2024
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7 September 2024
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2 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
STI cases on the rise
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Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
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13 August 2024
ICI explains road works delay in front of old Sheraton site
10 August 2024
Diaspora dismayed over lack of Te Maeva Nui livestream
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Everyone is a winner, says Culture
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Local women outshine global peers in business leadership
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Tapaitau appeal dismissed
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Pacific
Tahiti sailors win 2024 Regatta in Raro
Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.
Former PM Puna first Cook Islander elected to East-West Center Board
Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Trial witness threatened
Main witness fears for life in trial of accused killers of asylum seeker
Foreign staff not respecting local law
Detention centre staff fly out to avoid questioning, PNG police say.
Diver dies on Bikini
MAJURO – A German tourist has died in a diving incident in the Marshall Islands.
Deported children will 'find it hard'
TARAWA – A former president of Kiribati Sir Ieremia Tabai says the case of a family who failed to get climate refugee status in New Zealand has shone a spotlight on the predicament of Kiribati.
Kiribati 'climate refugee' deported
AUCKLAND – New Zealand has deported the Kiribati man whose lawyers have argued should be allowed to stay in the country as a refugee because the effects of climate change threaten his homeland.
Kun being investigated over fatal accident
YAREN – The Nauru government says the suspended opposition MP Roland Kun is being investigated for his alleged role in an historic fatal accident.
The end of the world is nigh, again
CHRISTCHURCH – It seems no year is complete without a doomsday prediction or two and – despite every prophecy to date being demonstrably wrong – 2015 is proving no exception, with everyone from evangelical preachers to the New Zealand Skeptics studying the latest predictions of the coming apocalypse.
Deportation gives message to Pacific
Taberannang Korauaba is editor of Kiribati Independent and a doctoral candidate with the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology. Here he writes about the deportation of Ioane Teitiota, the man being portrayed as the world’s first climate change refugee.
Assault claims against Kiribati man
AUCKLAND – New Zealand media has reported “startling allegations of sexual assault” have been made against Ioane Teitiota, who was deported back to Kiribati this week.
Family to follow next week
AUCKLAND – The father of a family claiming climate change makes them refugees has been accompanied by a police officer back to Kiribati.
Samoa relaxing before South Africa clash
BIRMINGHAM – Before the blood and thunder of their match with South Africa on Saturday, Samoa are enjoying the tranquil surroundings, sweeping fairways and manicured greens of the Belfry golf resort in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside.
Call for government of unity in Fiji
SUVA – The leader of Fiji’s National Federation Party Biman Prasad says the Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has a chance to leave a great legacy for Fiji if he heeds the party’s call for a government of national unity.
Fiji and Australia to front up in Cardiff
CARDIFF – The Wallabies know they have a 195-centimetre, 130-kilogramme hurdle to overcome in their World Cup opener in the shape of Fijian talisman Nemani Nadolo.
Pacific bishops to converge on Rome
PACIFIC – Catholic bishops from around the Pacific are preparing to represent their people at a major meeting in Rome next month.
PNG'S 'fruit bowl' drying out
MT HAGEN – As El Niño weather patterns continue to smash heat records globally and with even drier weather on the way, the UN has warned that as many as four million people may be adversely affected by drought in the Pacific.
24 dead from drought causes
CANBERRA – An Australian senate inquiry into Canberra’s aid programme in Papua New Guinea has been told the government should be ready to help the country deal with the effects of a growing drought disaster.
Tiny reef shark may beat climate change
TOWNSVILLE – Sharks found in shallow, tropical waters around northern Australia are well placed to cope with climate change, according to Queensland researchers.
World's rarest creature sighted off PNG
NDROVA ISLAND– It might be the rarest animal in the world, according to Peter Ward, a biologist at the University of Washington who this July came across the Allonautilus scrobiculatus species of nautilus in the waters off Papua New Guinea.
US sends Marshall Islanders home
MAJURO – Marshall Islanders have been deported from the United States at greater rate over recent years. Government data indicates that over the past 15 years, there’s a rate of sixteen deportations of Marshall Islanders per year.
Hospital fire raises questions
APIA – A fire at Samoa’s new hospital building that forced patients to be evacuated two weeks ago could have easily been avoided through proper maintenance of the building.
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