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Author Tom Neale’s Suwarrow journals donated to National Library of NZ

The Cook Islands High Commission in New Zealand was delighted to attend the handover of renowned author Tom Neale’s journals to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand in Wellington over a week ago.

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Australian High Commissioner Smith departs, Hodson to take over

The Australian High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, Phoebe Smith, has completed her two-year term and will return to Canberra today.

Fiji vote: Nominations closed

Fiji’s elections office is checking the eligibility of potential candidates wanting to stand in next month’s election.

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Samoa ready to welcome navigators

Polynesian navigators that settled in the islands of Hawai’i hundreds of years ago “are coming back to honour the people of Samoa,” which some believe is their land of origin, reports Talamua Online.

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This Samoan boy's got talent!

American Samoa’s newest singing sensation Paul Ieti has made the cut, moving on to the semifinals round of the nationally televised ‘America’s Got Talent’ series.

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Island township to relocate

Under threat from rising sea levels and tsunamis, the authorities of a provincial capital in the Solomon Islands have decided to relocate the population from a small island – the first such case in the Pacific islands.

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Outlook grim for Great Barrier Reef

The outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef looks grim, with many of the threats to its environmental health worsening over the past five years and expected to deteriorate further as climate change intensifies, two major reviews have found.

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Fiji: Air dispute costing money

Tourism operators say a dispute between the national airlines of Fiji and Solomon Islands is pushing up the cost of travel in the Pacific.

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Call to save bigeye tuna now

The Pacific tuna industry has joined environmental organisations and scientists calling for serious action to save bigeye tuna.

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Refugees have nowhere to go

The Refugee Action Coalition says the Australian government’s policies towards asylum seekers have left genuine refugees on Nauru and PNG with nowhere to go.

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Women MPs battle to make an impact

Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja, says countries like Australia can learn a lot from prospective female parliamentarians in the Pacific.

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Closing the Pacific's gender gap

A pledge by political leaders two years ago to accelerate efforts toward closing the gender gap in the Pacific Islands has been boosted with the announcement that three women will take the helm of the regional intergovernmental organisation, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, headquartered in Suva, Fiji.

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PNG: O'Neill referred to prosecutor

Papua New Guinea’s Ombudsman Commission has referred the Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to prosecutors for alleged misconduct in office.

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John Kerry in Honiara

United States Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to discuss climate change and the legacy of World War Two in Solomon Islands this week.

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Rio Tinto stripped of Panguna mining licences

Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper has been stripped of all its exploration and mining licences by the Bougainville Government.

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Undercover journalists arrested

Two under cover French journalists were arrested in West Papua last week.

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Futsal festival kicks off in Noumea

Some of the fastest feet and sharpest shooters from the Pacific region will show off their skills at the Oceania Football Confederation’s Futsal Championship Invitational in New Caledonia this week.

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Questions welcomed in Sydney

Fiji’s regime leader Frank Bainimarama will visit Australia in late August, as part of his campaign ahead of the country’s elections, his Australia-based supporters say.

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Fiji: Regime leader 'will accept vote'

Fiji’s interim Prime Minister and regime leader Frank Bainimarama has promised he will accept the results of next month’s elections in his country if he doesn’t win.

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Pacific a hub for organised crime

Australian law enforcement agencies are concerned that criminal networks are increasingly targeting Pacific nations.

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Thailand hosts forum on Pacific aid

Pacific countries will gather for the first ever development cooperation forum with Thailand this weekend.

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Hawaii: Islands brace for double punch

Hawai’i is hunkering down as two serious and potentially disastrous weather systems take aim at the holiday paradise, with the first expected to make landfall late Thursday local time.

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