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14 November 2024
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16 November 2024
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19 November 2024
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6 November 2024
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23 October 2024
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21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
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8 October 2024
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5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
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23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
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7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
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31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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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.
Threat to shut down island's hotel
YAREN – Landowners on Nauru are threatening to shut down a government-owned hotel on their land if the government continues to ignore their concerns.
Police warn of many more arrests
YAREN – The Nauru government says many more people will be arrested over protests outside the country’s parliament.
Nauru MP removed from aircraft
YAREN – A Nauruan opposition MP has been forcibly removed from an aircraft and prevented from leaving the country a week after he gave a controversial interview to the ABC.
Tiny nation sends out global warning
Koror – The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats belonging to Vietnamese fishing companies caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters.
California's red crab swarm linked to Pacific 'blob'
SAN DIEGO – Red crabs, by the thousands, have invaded Southern California beaches, washing ashore from San Diego to Newport Beach.
Huge gathering farewells 'King of Porirua'
PORIRUA – Jerry Collins’ last act of heroism, sacrificing his life to protect his baby daughter’s, was revealed to thousands of mourners at the former All Black’s funeral on Wednesday.
Razor wires removed in PNG capital
PORT MORESBY – Port Moresby is safer now than it ever was and its time for razor wires to come down, according to the National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop.
Sacked police chief found guilty
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s former police commissioner Geoffrey Vaki has been found guilty of contempt for not arresting the country’s prime minister on corruption charges.
League unaware of jihadist link to Fiji
suva – The Fiji Muslim League says it is unaware of any Fiji links to alleged Fijian teenage terrorist Irfaan Hussein who died recently in the Middle East where he was fighting with Jihadists.
MP arrested at protest on Nauru
YAREN – Protests have erupted outside Nauru’s parliament in a response to government corruption revealed last week, with an opposition MP arrested and allegedly beaten.
Facebook flag critics given warning
SUVA – The Fiji Police Force is warning members of the public to monitor their frustrations vented on social media regarding the country’s process of creating a new flag.
Biggest ever weightlifting field
PORT MORESBY – The strongest weightlifting field in Pacific Games history will be on show in Port Moresby next month.
Church fights 'witch hunting' in PNG
Some may find it hard to believe that witch-hunting would occur in the 21st century. But it’s wreaking havoc still in some parts of the world – writes Ray Cavanaugh for NZCatholic, New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper.
Apia on track for Youth Games
APIA – Samoa is “more than ready” to host the Fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in September this year.
People smugglers 'paid to turn back their boats'
CANBERRA – Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has repeatedly dodged new questions about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, only saying that his government is “prepared to do what is necessary to keep the boats stopped”.
Abbott's dodging of questions 'confirms allegations'
This goes further than hypocrisy. Tony Abbott’s primary justification for condemning people smugglers is that they cause deaths.
Surfer achieves perfection in Fiji
TAVARUA – Australian surfer Owen Wright notched up perfect scores twice on his way to to winning the 2015 Fiji Pro mens championship.
Palau gives reason for ocean optimism
Efforts to conserve the world’s oceans are continually challenged by both what people put into them, and the rates at which we are taking biodiversity out of them, writes Wayne Sentman – a conservation biologist, naturalist, educator, and director of international eco-travel programme for the Oceanic Society, America’s oldest non-profit group dedicated to ocean conservation.
Duped refugee claims his life is in danger
LORENGAU – A refugee is in hiding on Manus Island in fear of his life, after allegedly being tricked by Papua New Guinea immigration officials into making a newspaper advertisement promoting resettlement.
Dengue fever worries as test day draws near
APIA – Samoa is on high alert for a fatal strain of dengue that has hit neighbouring American Samoa, New Zealand’s TV One News reported on Sunday.
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