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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.
Coach's criticism of Games refuted
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.
FSM concedes 68 goals in two matches
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.
Samoans up for the challenge
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.
'Bob Marley' caught growing marijuana
KUNDIAWA – “Bob Marley” has been arrested, convicted and jailed for two years after being found guilty of growing marijuana.
Cyclone is in fact an early bird
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.
Bainimarama waves white flag
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.
Vendors anticipate brisk business as Games get underway
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.
PM 'proud' on eve of Pacific Games
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.
Baton arrives as Games set to start
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.
Climate talks too late for Kiribati
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.
Boy shot during riot in Madang
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.
Officials absent during cyclone
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.
New laws have a 'chilling effect'
CANBERRA – Lawyers and asylum seeker advocates say they are concerned about new laws applying to some people working in detention centres.
Mother and baby survive
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.
Mining gets behind reef monitoring tool
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.
Sun-fuelled flight to Hawai'i underway
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.
Asylum seeker 'hush up' law criticised
SYDNEY – An Australian paediatrician has spoken up about a new law in Australia banning people from speaking out about what they see on Nauru.
Detainees made suicide pacts
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.
EU lectures Nauru on human rights
YAREN - The European Union says the Nauru Government must meet its international human rights obligations.
New king must win people's trust
AUCKLAND – Chairman of the Tongan Advisory Council Melino Maka says the newly-appointed King of Tonga’s biggest challenge will be to win back the trust of his people.
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