Tag: Chinatown
More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands
RNZ Pacific
The latest members of New Zealand's Defence Force and police contingent have arrived in Honiara after days of unrest in the Solomon Islands...
Solomon Islands police arrest 217 riot suspects, but no ‘instigators’ so...
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Solomon Islands police have arrested 217 suspects connected to the three days of rioting and looting in the capital Honiara...
PNG’s police deployment in Honiara ‘vital’ for regional security
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's deployment of 37 police and Correctional Services staff to Solomon Islands on Friday was done on...
Solomon Islands: China mouthpiece blames Australia for ‘fomenting riots’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An editorial in the Chinese English-language mouthpiece Global Times has accused Australia -- and the United States -- of "conniv with...
Solomon Islands: The painful reality – my day on the road...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Iroga in Honiara
Honiara residents walked for long distances to find shops and ATMs today with fewer or nor public transport...
Solomons police overrun, Australia deploys support personnel
RNZ Pacific
Police in Solomon Islands were overrun as rioters and looters tore through the capital Honiara.
RNZ Pacific correspondent in Honiara, Elizabeth Osifelo, said exhausted...
Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
A defiant Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has vowed tonight that he will not resign and will defend Solomon Islands democracy...