Tag: Looting
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...
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...
Solomon Islands riots: 100 arrested as police chief warns ‘nobody above...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Solomon Islands police have arrested more than 100 suspects as Honiara townspeople clean up after three days of rioting and looting...
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...
Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest
RNZ Pacific
A police station and several shops were set on fire by looters in Solomon Islands today after what started in the morning as...
Rioters, looters strike PNG cities as nation mourns death of Somare
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Rioters described by Papua New Guinea police as "opportunists" taking advantage of the death of Grand Chief Sir Michael...
Tongan missionaries ‘in hiding’ in PNG as angry looters target Asian...
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga
A group of Tongan missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Papua New...
‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea came under attack yesterday as angry police and corrections officers stormed into Parliament Haus and destroyed the...