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 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.
A tropical depression is forecast to become Typhoon Goni as it moves through the Marianas this weekend.
Bainimarama says so-called rebel military units pose no threat.
TAVUA – Authorities in Fiji believe a British army veteran has been overseeing secret military training in the tropical hinterlands as part of a plot to form a breakaway Christian state.
HONIARA – People who depend on rainwater in the parts of the Solomon Islands are being urged to start rationing their water due to the low rainfall currently experienced as the El Niño season continues.
AUCKLAND – As a young nation undergoing a rapidly changing demography, New Zealand is learning to grapple with the rise of ‘casual’ or ‘everyday’ racism, the Herald on Sunday reported recently.
SUVA – Fiji’s Police Commissioner Ben Groenewald has assured people living in the Western Division that there is no security threat in the area. The reassurance came in the wake of the arrest and detention of five Ra men this week, who were charged with sedition and inciting “communal antagonism”.
CANBERRA – A number of former guards from the Nauru detention centre have spoken out against Wilson Security, accusing the Australian company of providing misleading evidence to the Australian parliament.
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s government has paid almost $1 million in compensation to former prime minister Sir Michael Somare for his “illegal removal from office” in 2011.
SUVA – The United Nations has launched a Pacific-wide campaign against homophobia and transphobia.
SAIPAN – Typhoon Soudelor survivors formed long lines even before a federal Disaster Recovery Centre opened for the first time Wednesday for thousands in the Northern Marianas who have been struggling with food shortages and lack of running water and power.
PACIFIC – In the wake of deadly Super Typhoon Soudelor, two new tropical threats are brewing in the western Pacific Ocean.
SUVA – Fiji police say there could be more arrests following reports of a group conducting military-style training in the hills of Ra.
APIA – Journalists, students and potential political candidates are taking part in a seminar in Apia to help them play their part in increasing the number of women in parliament at the 2016 election.
SAIPAN – A new tropical storm could pass through the Northern Mariana Islands next week, according to the National Weather Service.
SAIPAN – The Emergency Management Office in the Northern Marianas says recovery efforts have progressed well in Saipan, in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor which battered the territory just over a week ago.
MAJURO – The Marshall Islands has strongly criticised Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target, saying if the rest world followed Australia’s lead, vulnerable nations would disappear.
APIA – Samoa’s notorious prison at Tafa’igata will relocate to its new location at Tanugamalala by March next year.
PORT MORESBY – A major commercial bank has given Papua New Guinea the thumbs up, saying its economic future is positive.
YAREN – The family of a female Iranian asylum seeker, who was allegedly raped three months ago in Nauru, say the Australian Federal Government has refused to allow her to be treated in Australia.
DILI – A former East Timor guerrilla leader and long-time opponent to Xanana Gusmao has been killed in a security operation, the government said, raising concern about unrest in Asia’s youngest nation.
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