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Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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Challenging ‘rape culture’
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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.
Fiji: Call to test decree impartiality
Pressure is being brought to bear on the Supervisor of Elections to take action on what is said to be a false declaration by the FijiFirst party that none of its candidates had a criminal record when, in fact one had.
Kiribati: One in 20 babies die in first year
An Australian independent aid project is tackling water and sanitation problems in Kiribati to combat the nation’s high infant mortality rate.
Noumea: Shots fired at nickel plant protest
French authorities say a police officer has been injured near Noumea when young people used firearms against a group of about 80 police trying to remove roadblocks.
On alert for measles outbreak
Health authorities in Marshall Islands are on high alert following an outbreak of measles on the nearby island of Kosrae in Federated States of Micronesia.
US: Samoan nun did not know she was pregnant
It started with stomach cramps, so severe that Sosefina Amoa rushed from a prayer meeting at the convent where she was studying to become a nun.
Claim FijiFirst in breach of decree
The United Front for a Democratic Fiji says a false declaration by the regime leader’s proposed political party has legal consequences for every one of its initial 40,000 members.
Boy survived 37 hours in sea
A Fijian teenage has lived to tell of his ordeal adrift at sea for two days.
Tahiti: Respected newspaper's last edition
One of the Pacific’s oldest newspapers is no more. Les Nouvelles de Tahiti, the older of two daily newspapers in French Polynesia, published its last edition on Friday.
Fiji: Chief's support needed after rough week
Fiji’s prime minister and the leader of the soon-to-be-registered FijiFirst Party has boasted to Fiji media that 18 chiefs have endorsed his party, along with 40,000 officially signed-up supporters.
Call for decolonisation
Pacific islanders across the region are being urged to renew support for the decolonisation of Pacific communities still under colonial rule.
Seeking stories from Kokoda Track
A team of international researchers is on a mission to gather first-hand accounts of Papua New Guineans’ wartime experience along the Kokoda Track.
Tonga: Accused's father witnesses beating
The father of the accused civilian Semisi Kalistiane Manu who is facing a jury trial for manslaughter in the death of a vacationing New Zealand police officer while in custody in Tonga, said he witnessed the police beating up the deceased at the Nuku’alofa police station.
In Brief: Dumped PM says he was 'let down'
The new leader of Vanuatu’s opposition and dumped Prime Minister, Moana Carcasses, says his partners let him down.
Fiji: Prison inmates have tuberculosis
The Fiji Corrections Service has confirmed that three of its convicted inmates have been admitted to hospital suffering from tuberculosis (TB).
First birthday for Fijian triplets
“Being a single mother and raising triplets is not easy but I can never be more thankful to my family and relatives for supporting me throughout.”
Solomons: Red Cross spending queried
The Solomon Islands Red Cross has been criticised for spending thousands of dollars on renting rooms for its staff at a Honiara resort.
First refugees released on Nauru
The first refugees on Nauru to have been granted visas have been released from Australian immigration detention on the island.
Global drug syndicates target region
The Asia Pacific region is being targeted by drug traffickers because of its economic growth and large youth population, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns.
In Brief: 'Police' set Port Moresby homes on fire
Sixty families in Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, have been left homeless after police allegedly torched their properties.
Fiji: Regime leader claims chiefs' support
Eighteen prominent Fijian chiefs have reportedly shown their support to the proposed FijiFirst Party.
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