Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.
Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
MAJURO – The Marshall islands have battered by big waves and heavy rain generated by a tropical disturbance over 300 kilometres south of the islands.
CAIRNS – Cyclone Nathan has intensified as it tracks closer to the far north Queensland coastline and is expected to become a category three by today.
KERMADEC – Tropical Cyclone Pam has forced a scientific team on board the navy’s HMZS Wellington to cut short its mission to the Kermadec Islands.
PORT VILA – Tropical cyclone Pam has been upgraded to a category four storm as it heads towards Vanuatu.
NUKU‘ALOFA – A newly-formed volcanic island off Tonga could be the country’s latest tourism attraction, a local tourism operator says.
SAIPAN – Military and civilian aircraft came disturbingly close in the skies between Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Marianas last week.
TUAKAU – Small towns on the outskirts of Auckland are reporting an influx of residents in recent times, as house and rental prices continue to rise in the city.
AUCKLAND – Auckland’s Pasifika Festival has been moved to Manukau due to the outbreak of the Queensland fruit fly.
SUVA – The furore over a contested Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA) “ruling” against the Fiji Sun over two newspaper articles may lead to changes, according to the national journalists’ advocacy body.
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s Acting Police Commissioner Jim Andrews has condemned an attack on the Jiwaka Provincial Police Commander Superintendent Joseph Tondop.
YAREN – Nauru’s president has accused “faceless” Australian refugee advocates of provoking violence on the island nation.
GENEVA – Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama has taken a swipe at Australia’s practice of resettling asylum seekers in the Pacific.
YAREN – Hundreds of refugees on Nauru say they will continue to protest against what they say are slave-like living conditions on the remote Pacific island.
Nuku‘alofa – A Tonga government review reveals that Tonga has fallen behind in three Millennium Development Goals – poverty eradication, gender equality and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
PACIFIC – Organic farming is being touted as a key strategy in the fight against climate change in the Pacific.
Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi spoke to officially the open the Conference on ‘China and the Pacific: The View from Oceania’ being held in Apia at the National University of Samoa. This was his address.
PIA – The traditional external powers in the Pacific Islands are still coming to terms with China’s increasing level of engagement with the region.
FALUN – A former marathon runner from Tonga is hoping to become the Pacific island nation’s first Winter Olympic skier.
BETIO – The Kiribati Public Health Department says the damage to one of only two hospitals on South Tarawa is so severe, it will take at least a fortnight to repair.
BALTIMORE – The Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore, USA, is hosting a photography exhibition entitled ‘In Wake: Rising Seas, Vanishing Islands’.
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