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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.

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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.

Fisheries grant approved

THE PACIFIC – The World Bank has approved a US$33 million dollar grant for a programme to strengthen fisheries management in select Pacific countries.

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Nickel spill causes damage

KONIAMBO – Initial assessments from last week’s nickel spill at New Caledonia’s Koniambo plant put the damage at more than three million US dollars.

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Prime minister elected

NUKU’ALOFA – Tonga should know who its new prime minister is by now. There have been two nominations submitted for Kingdom’s top job and the MPs were to have voted yesterday.

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Explosion injures restaurant staff

PAGO PAGO – Two people were injured in an explosion at an American Samoa restaurant on Christmas Eve.

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PNG'S resource wealth a dilemma

PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s wealth of natural resources can be viewed as the nation’s blessing, providing a lubricated pathway to social development and financial security.

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Lava stalls on Christmas eve

PAHOA – Molten lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano in Hawai’i has stalled on its slow creep toward a Big Island shopping centre.

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Ciguatera heading to southern waters

EVANS HEAD – What was once considered a tropical food poisoning danger is now becoming a problem in places much further south.

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Aid-for-trade in Pacific set to increase

The recently released Australian foreign aid policy claims to be heralding a new paradigm of aid delivery.

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Education spending sparks online debate

Missed anything in the news this week? Stay up to date with this list of stories that drew the most interest online.

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PNG: Forest felled for palm plantations

Papua New Guinea’s National Forest Board will consider a Malaysian company’s bid to continue to logging virgin rainforest in order to plant palm oil.

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Climate refugees not on SIDS agenda

There is regret that next week’s conference on Small Island Developing States in Samoa will bypass the issue of creating a new category of environmental refugees.

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Tonga: Sacked for suggesting co-operation

A Tongan MP Sitiveni Halapua says he was dropped from the Democratic Party because he wanted it to work together with other MPs.

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PNG: Locals go shopping across border

The acting Governor of Papua New Guinea’s West Sepik says many people in his province are turning to Indonesia for goods and services.

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NZ: Waste converted to energy

A New Zealand energy consultant says a technology which converts any kind of waste to renewable energy could be the way forward in making the Pacific region more sustainable.

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Niue: Frustrated over lack of support

Niue’s premier Toke Talagi says he is frustrated by a lack of financial support for the Smaller Island States Unit of the Pacific Islands Forum and is considering leaving the sub-group.

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Castaway feet washing ashore

A human foot, still inside a New Balance sports shoe washed ashore in Seattle this week — and if that wasn’t mystery enough, it’s the fifteenth foot that’s washed ashore along the Pacific Northwest coast since 2007.

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Town planner heads to isolated atoll

How do you come up with an urban development plan for a city which consists of tiny islets connected by causeways located in a remote Pacific atoll and subject to flooding on the next king tide?

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Big focus on climate change

The United Nations is hoping the Small Islands Developing States conference which gets underway in Samoa next week will lead the way for international action on climate change.

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Samoans spruce up villages

Villages throughout Samoa are adding the final touches to their preparations to welcome thousands of visitors expected for the Small Island Developing States conference.

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Protest at Sydney campaign rally

Fiji’s military leader has been greeted by protesters in Sydney on his visit to Australian to campaign ahead of next month’s post-coup elections.

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