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O’Neill defends PNG government responses over Bougainville
Papua New Guinea's government has defended its handling of preparations for the Bougainville referendum. Video: EMTV
By Meriba Tulo in Port Moresby
With just a year...
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Vanuatu walks the talk – and becomes first country to ban...
By Jilda Shem in Port Vila
It's a Pacific island nation that has beaten the global community across the finish line with Vanuatu officially becoming...
Biggest quake since 1975 shakes Hawai’i, volcano spews lava
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The 6.9-magnitude earthquake that shook the Big Island on Friday and was felt as far away as Oahu was the strongest...
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BRIEFING: By Jale Moala in Port Moresby
MAY 19, 2000: As editor of the Fiji Daily Post newspaper in Suva, I was expecting some big...
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PNG condemned for sorcery attacks, police brutality and over refugees
Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...
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O’Neill defends PNG government responses over Bougainville
Papua New Guinea's government has defended its handling of preparations for the Bougainville referendum. Video: EMTV
By Meriba Tulo in Port Moresby
With just a year...
PNG condemned for sorcery attacks, police brutality and over refugees
Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...
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O’Neill defends PNG government responses over Bougainville
Papua New Guinea's government has defended its handling of preparations for the Bougainville referendum. Video: EMTV
By Meriba Tulo in Port Moresby
With just a year...
PNG condemned for sorcery attacks, police brutality and over refugees
Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...
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Fiji Times Four ‘relieved’ sedition newspaper freedom ordeal is over
By Geraldine Panapasa, editor-in-chief of Wansolwara
“Relief!”
That was the word from Fiji Times Ltd publisher Hank Arts after High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe acquitted...
Fiji newspaper sedition trial – Fiji Times Four found not guilty
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The High Court in Suva has found the Fiji Times Ltd, its three senior executives and a letter writer not guilty...
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Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu win medals at Games
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News
Three countries that have never won a medal in Commonwealth Games history are celebrating after bagging bronze in weightlifting,...
Tongan ban on girls playing rugby and boxing ‘not our policy’,...
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Tonga's Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva disagrees with a decision by his Minister of Education to ban girls from...
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Diabetes ‘ongoing disaster’ tops Fiji health bill at $124 million
By Adi Ana Civavonovono in Suva
The estimated financial cost and economic burden of diabetes in Fiji reached a staggering $124 million (NZ$84 million) in...
Accidents expose lax safety hitting Indonesia’s infrastructure projects
By Sarah Yuniarni in Jakarta
A recent string of accidents in major construction projects in Indonesia has raised concerns of lax safety standards as President...
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Sounds of Caribbean planned for Auckland’s first steelband festival
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Auckland’s popular Silo Park will come alive to the sounds of the Caribbean next week.
Part of the Summer at Silo Park...
Contemporary Pacific dance festival showcase ‘first of its kind’
By Brandon Ulfsby in Auckland
Contemporary dance is set to take centre stage at next week's Pacific Dance Festival.
The two week-long festival organised by Pacific...
An Indonesian oasis of progressive creativity emerges in culture city
Dr Max Lane, pictured here with Faiza Mardzoeki, talks about his project to establish a community and activist library for the student city of...
Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing
By Kendall Hutt
A small, enthusiastic crowd gathered among the shelves of one of Auckland’s libraries earlier this week to listen to a lively and...
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PNG LNG – failed predictions and PNG’s resource curse
“On almost every measure of economic welfare, the PNG economy would have been better off without the PNG LNG project.”
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Papua New...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
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The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
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