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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.
Sacking of ministers stirs up politics in Vanuatu
PORT VILA – The Vanuatu prime minister Joe Natuman says he dismissed two ministers to stabilise support for the government, which now has a majority of 28 MPs.
Deaths spark alert in Samoas
PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s Department of Health is carrying out further testing to determine if there’s a new type of dengue fever present in the territory following confirmation that two people died from dengue last month.
Samoan All Black and wife killed in France
BEZIERS – Former All Blacks back rower Jerry Collins and his wife died Friday following a car accident in France.
Hope for better managed Pacific environment
PACIFIC – Friday, June 5, was World Environment Day and the Pacific’s key regional environment watchdog wants everyone to think of how they can have an impact.
Claims senator spied on while on Nauru
CANBERRA – Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has attacked the Prime Minister Tony Abbott for saying she was being “looked after”, not spied on, while she was on Nauru.
Chinese firms buy sensitive mining projects
PORT MORESBY – A Chinese state-owned investment firm has lodged a compulsory acquisition notice for Australian-based mining company PanAust, which has assets in Papua New Guinea and Laos.
Production dives at troubled nickel mine
GORO – Rioters torched vehicles, equipment and buildings at Vale’s nickel mine in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last month, as anger boiled over about a chemical spill in a local river.
PACIFIC BRIEFS: TONGA'S BUDGET BIGGER THAN LAST YEAR
TONGA – Tonga’s public servants are in for a pay rise with a more than US$2.4 million boost in the first budget of the Akilisi Pohiva government
Much ado in Fiji over raising of a new flag
SUVA – Fiji is deliberating on what rules should be in place on the use of the new flag, once it is adopted later this year.
Niue a global sanctuary for bees
ALOFI – Niue could become a global bee sanctuary if the plans of two businessmen succeed.
Curfew reveals inadequacies
LORENGAU – A refugee watchdog says a curfew for refugees on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island is a stark indicator that refugees cannot be safely cared for there.
First refugees from Nauru land in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – Four refugees transferred from the Nauru detention centre have arrived in Cambodia and were taken away in a van with curtains covering the windows.
Pick-pockets, drunks not welcome
PORT MORESBY – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands has come out in support of National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop’s call to fight pick-pockets, drunks, street-fighting and litterbugs.
Police 'beefing up' for Games
PORT MORESBY – Police in Port Moresby have received new vehicles as part of an extensive build up of security operations surrounding the 2015 Pacific Games.
Organisers dismiss claims of unreadiness
PORT MORESBY – The organisers of the Pacific Games, set to be held next month in Port Moresby, have said a campaign to discredit the readiness of the stadiums will have a negative impact on ticket sales.
Games baton relay touching all Papua New Guineans
MT MODAWA – The baton relay for the Pacific Games was this week handed on by the Chieftain of the Mountain men from Mt Modawa to a man from the Higiva cult, locally respected for their monk-like traditions who choose to wear no clothing.
Concerns venues not ready for Games
PORT MORESEBY – There is concern in Papua New Guinea over the readiness of venues for the 2015 Pacific Games due to start next month.
Refugee assaulted for missing curfew
LORENGAU – Security guards on Manus Island have reportedly assaulted a refugee for not returning to the East Lorengau refugee transit centre by the imposed 6.00pm curfew.
Quest to solve Amelia Earhart mystery continues
Nikumaroro – The search for Amelia Earhart’s long lost aircraft will resume this month in the waters off Nikumaroro, an uninhabited South Pacific atoll in the republic of Kiribati, where the legendary pilot might have died as a castaway.
Mystery of missing donated rescue boat solved
APIA – A mystery surrounding the disappearance of a $182,000 rescue boat donated to the government of Samoa appears to have been solved.
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