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.
KAPOLEI – Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawai‘i after making a historic 7200km flight across the Pacific from Japan.
NUKU‘ALOFA – Tonga’s King Tupou VI has been formally crowned before thousands of people including heads of state and dignitaries from around the world.
PORT MORESBY – Pacific Game organisers have hit back at criticism from the New Zealand under-23 football team that the Athletes’ Village in Port Moresby was not of an acceptable standard to live in.
PORT MORESBY – Fiji has recorded one of the biggest ever wins in international soccer with a 38-0 thrashing of Federated States of Micronesia at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby.
APIA – A shock recall for Census Johnston is the main talking point of Manu Samoa’s 27-strong squad to take on the All Blacks in this week’s historic test match in Apia.
KUNDIAWA – “Bob Marley” has been arrested, convicted and jailed for two years after being found guilty of growing marijuana.
BRISBANE – Tropical Cyclone Raquel has formed in the south-west Pacific near the Solomon Islands, triggering the earliest cyclone warning on record issued in northern Melanesia.
SUVA – Fiji’s prime minister, not known for surrendering, has apparently waved the white flag over plans to have a new national flag sorted in time for the 45th anniversary of independence celebrations on October 1.
PORT MORESBY – As Papua New Guinea counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the start of the Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games, the whole country is getting ready to deliver.
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has lauded the work of Port Moresby 2015 Pacific Games organisers, saying he appreciated their efforts to build venues quickly and efficiently.
PORT MORESBY – The cream of the Pacific’s sporting talent are arriving in Port Moresby as athletes prepare to compete for gold, silver and bronze in the much anticipated 2015 Pacific Games which the Duke of York Prince Andrew will open on Saturday local time.
NEW YORK – The President of Kiribati Anote Tong says whatever action the world decides to take at climate change talks in Paris – it comes too late for low-lying island nations like his own.
MADANG – In Papua New Guinea, a peaceful protest march in the town of Madang turned violent this week, leaving a boy dead, scores wounded and business destroyed by looters.
PORT VILA – The decision by Vanuatu’s president and senior disaster officials to leave the country and fly to a conference in Japan as Cyclone Pam bore down on the Pacific nation in March made response efforts more difficult, aid group Save the Children says.
CANBERRA – Lawyers and asylum seeker advocates say they are concerned about new laws applying to some people working in detention centres.
BUKA – A mother and her baby have survived by clinging to the wreckage of a small boat after drifting for more than 24 hours in the sea off Bougainville at the weekend.
BRISBANE – The Queensland government will use new real-time water quality monitoring to take action against industrial and agricultural polluters of the Great Barrier Reef, the state environment minister said.
HONOLULU – A solar-powered plane has passed the “point of no return” in its second bid at making a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.
SYDNEY – An Australian paediatrician has spoken up about a new law in Australia banning people from speaking out about what they see on Nauru.
YAREN – Desperate and dispirited asylum seekers at the Australian-run detention centre on Nauru formed “suicide pacts”, according to accounts by two social workers who worked at the centre.
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