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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.
'Seedy, toxic environment' unveiled
CANBERRA – Save the Children has told an Australian Senate inquiry into allegations of physical and sexual assault at the Nauru detention centre that it had raised concerns about substandard conditions long before the Moss Review was released.
Australia attempting to 'imbed' in Bougainville
Regional News Opinion. Amid elections on Bougainville, news has broken that the Abbott Australian government has plans establish a new diplomatic mission in this autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
Bougainville wants travel ban lifted
BUKA – Amid a brewing regional diplomatic crisis, Bougainville’s president has called on Papua New Guinea to overturn a travel ban on Australians, saying it breaches the spirit of the peace agreement that allows the island its autonomy.
Committed to ending child violence
SUVA – The United Nations says Pacific leaders are showing they are committed to ending high rates of violence against children in the region.
Report confirms violence epidemic
SUVA – High rates of domestic violence, including brutality against pregnant women, in the South Pacific have been documented in a new Unicef report.
Fiji chiefs assert control of affairs
BA – The formation of a non-governmental organisation set up by a group of influential chiefs in the Ba Province of Fiji has stirred the ire of Ba Provincial Council chairman, Ratu Tevita Momedonu, who claims the group is “ill-advised”.
Pacific leaders in Japan for alliance meeting
TOKYO – Pacific leaders are now gathering in Japan for this week’s Pacific Alliance Leaders’ Meeting, or PALM.
Samoa PM brushes aside airline advice
APIA – The Samoan Prime Minister has downplayed calls for his government to defer plans to restart international Polynesian Airlines flights.
Attack 'covered up'
YAREN – An Australia based advocate for refugees claims Nauru police and the Australian Immigration Department are covering up another sexual assault on an asylum seeker.
Flosse loses defamation case
PAPEETE – The criminal court in French Polynesia has thrown out the defamation case brought by a former president, Gaston Flosse, against two French journalists over a book and a 2013 article in the French newspaper, Le Monde.
Tonga facing critical drought conditions
NUKU‘ALOFA – The Tonga Metservice says it’s critical for Tonga’s smaller islands that the effects of an ongoing drought are mitigated.
New chocolate range has Pacific ingredients
AUCKLAND – A New Zealand chocolate company has released a new range of chocolates using ingredients from the Pacific –vanilla from Tonga and cocoa from Samoa.
Contraband hidden in body cavities
SUVA – The swallowing and smuggling of drugs and mobile phones through body cavities continue to challenge the Fiji Corrections Service.
Australians banned from Bougainville
PORT MORS BY – Papua New Guinea has banned Australians from travelling to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, following Canberra’s announcement of plans to open a new diplomatic mission on the island.
Short on wheels
SUVA – Fiji’s Police Commissioner says his force is struggling with a lack of resources, particularly the availability of vehicles.
Call for monitoring of Solomons dolphin hunt
FANALEI – The South Pacific Whale Research Consortium are calling for more scientific monitoring of traditional dolphin hunting practices in Solomon Islands.
Shocking submissions at Nauru inquiry
CANBERRA – Shocking accounts of sexual assault and squalid living conditions at the Australian-funded detention centre on Nauru have been revealed in submissions to a Senate inquiry.
Tuvalu's islands rising says new report
FUNAFUTI – Despite ongoing sea level rise, the main atoll in the south Pacifi c nation of Tuvalu has grown in size over the past 100 years – according to fi ve scientists whose four-page paper was published earlier this month by the Geological Society of America.
'Evil' gay activists told to leave Tonga by church members
NUKU‘ALOFA – A protest in Tonga led by a church group who told gay activists attending a conference they were “evil” has been strongly condemned.
Body falls out of hearse at Auckland traffic lights
PAPATOETOE – A bizarre story involving a dead body flying out from the back of a hearse in Auckland is making global headlines.
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