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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.
Doubts over lifting of media restrictions
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has lifted restrictions that prevent foreign journalists travelling to the country’s Papua provinces.
Man killed by shark in New Caledonia
KOUARE – A 50-year-old French man died after being bitten multiple times in a “savage and sudden” attack by a shark while he was snorkelling with his wife and friends off a catamaran in New Caledonia.
Players forced to abandon home teams
PACIFIC – Leading European clubs are pressurising their Pacific island players to retire from international rugby duties four months out from the World Cup, it has been claimed.
Youth leaders take climate change message to Sydney
SYDNEY – Two months after category five cyclone Pam battered their small nations, four young Pacific island leaders have journeyed to southeast Sydney to encourage Australians to act on climate change.
One million to get feet wet for Tuvalu
VENICE – An artwork that gets your feet wet is about to be unveiled in Venice at the 56th International Biennale.
Death penalty under review
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill says the death penalty is “under review” after recent global outcry over the execution of foreign drug convicts in neighbouring Indonesia.
Gloves are off as Bougainville polls open
BUKA – Polls have opened in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville to elect a government that will lead the island on the path towards a referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea.
Fiji Sevens lead series and qualify for Olympics
Fiji have beaten New Zealand 24-17 in the final of the Glasgow Sevens to claim their fourth title of the season and move to the brink of the World Series title.
Papuan prisoners released
JAKARTA – Indonesian president Joko Widodo has ordered the release of a group of political prisoners in Papua in a rare conciliatory gesture to the restive eastern province.
Typhoon Noul thrashes Philippines
MANILA – A powerful Pacific-born typhoon has swept across the Western Pacific after making landfall in the north-east of the Philippines as a “super typhoon”, before weakening and moving towards Taiwan.
UN torture team calls for transparency
YAREN – A United Nations torture prevention team has called for greater transparency on conditions and systems governing the immigration detention centre in Nauru following a visit to the island nation.
Fiji minister resigns due to ill health
SUVA – Fiji’s Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and the leader of the Government in the Parliament, Pio Tikoduadua, has resigned due to illness.
Turning waste into energy
MAJURO – A $2 million waste-to-power investment by one of the biggest corporations in the United States is underway at the Marshall Islands Energy Company’s power plant in Majuro.
They named the village after the builder
LAUTOKA – Just outside Fiji’s second biggest city, Lautoka, lies a place known as Koroipita or Peter’s village, home to some of the country’s poorest people.
Landowners pay $100 for a gold mine
HONIARA – A landowner company in Solomon Islands has bought the troubled Gold Ridge mine for just $100 from Australian gold miner Saint Barbara.
Surfboards shaped with bush knives
TIPURA – Surfers in Papua New Guinea are going back to basics and learning the traditional Hawaiian techniques of timber surfboard building.
Backlash over tax-free salaries
HONIARA – There is a growing discontent against moves in Solomon Islands to offer tax-free salaries to federal members of parliament.
He's survived every natural disaster
EFATE – Volcanic eruptions, landslides, earthquakes and cyclones – 76-year-old Lik Simelum from Vanuatu has survived them all – although he did see his father and youngest brother killed by a cyclone triggered landslide.
Death toll rises, homeless go hungry
PORT VILA – The United Nations has raised the confirmed death toll in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam from 11 to 16 in the wake of the direct hit from the devastating category five storm on March 13.
Importance of forests highlighted
PORT MORESBY – A United Nations ecology expert says the world needs to realise the importance the forests of Papua New Guinea holds in the fight against climate change.
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