ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:15pm AEDT
Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Bougainville region plans to resettle some 1400 people from the Carteret Islands to the mainland starting this year.
The islanders are facing food shortages as their island is sinking.
presenter: Firmin Nanol
speakers: Martin Mose, director of PNG's National Disaster Centre; Patrick Koles,…
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THE CHINA POST
February 13 2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced yesterday the appointment of several new ambassadors to Taiwan's diplomatic allies in the South Pacific,as well as representatives to two European countries. Benjamin T.H. Ho, now deputy head of Taiwan's representative office in Singapore, will become Republic of China ambassador…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Thu Feb 12, 2009
The regional cyclone warning centre in Fiji is predicting more bad weather for most of the South Pacific later this week. Flooding from torrential rains due to tropical depressions have already claimed more than 30 lives in Fiji and Solomon Islands. The Director of the Centre, Rajendra Prasad says apart from the Cook Islands, the region has been relatively…
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06:00 AEST Fri Feb 13 2009 by
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Australians have opened up their wallets for the Nine Network's bushfire appeal, bringing in over $20 million for victims of the firestorm disaster.
Australians have now donated more than $75 million to the victims of the bushfires.
At last night's Channel 9 appeal Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban led the way,…
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Miadhu News Maldives
11 February 2009
The number of countries wanting to purchase land in safer countries to relocate its people and prevent them from being environmental refugees in the event their country is submerged due to sea level rise caused by global warming is on the rise.
The latest to join the list of countries wanting to purchase land elsewhere is the pacific island nation of Kiribati. Kiribati President…
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Posted at 22:14 on 11 February, 2009 UTC
The New Zealand Aids Foundation’s Pacific branch is in full support of a programme being designed by police officials in the Pacific who plan to help fight the spread of Aids.
Twenty one countries in the region including New Caledonia, Niue and Kiribati plan to introduce an awareness campaign about the virus that…
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SUNSHINE COAST DAILY ONLINE
5:58a.m. 11th February 2009
By Kerryn Manifold and AAP
Stuart O'Gorman (left) and his parents, Alan and Carolyn, were killed. Also pictured are twins Bronwyn and Patrick who survived.
More than 180 people have been killed in the Victorian bushfires, police say and the state's premier, John…
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ABC Radio Australia InterviewUpdated 8 hours 11 minutes ago
10 Feb 2009
There's been a strong response in the Pacific to the natural disaster unfolding in Australia. Since Saturday the state of Victoria has been hit by bushfires which have destroyed lives and homes. Across the region there have been expressions of sorrow and hope, including prayer vigils for those affected. And while there's…
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Island Business
Dionisia Tabureguci
Islands to control their own destiny
The push by Pacific islands countries to take control of their own destinies when it comes to their coveted fishing resources may be emerging as a faint pulse of conviction and action.
But it is no doubt a…
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Islands Business
Asterio Takesy 10 Feb 2009
As many of you know, this will be my final director’s column. Please allow me a few last observations as director on the state of the Pacific’s environment.
During the six years of the column, I have addressed both challenges to and successes of the…
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Australia Network News provided by ABC Asia Pacific News Centre
10 Feb 2009
The President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, is reportedly looking to purchase land in other countries so it can relocate communities that are in danger of being submerged by rising sea levels.
Much of Kiribati is no higher than five meters above sea level and the ocean around it's 21 inhabited islands have been rising…
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SunHerald.com Mark Buttler February 10, 2009 12:00am
UPDATE 6:50am WHOLE towns have been declared crime scenes as the toll from Victoria's worst natural disaster leapt to 173.
(THIS FAMILY NOW CONFIRMED DEAD - Just one of many families lost) Information is being sought on the Roland family from Kinglake. Parents Paul and Karen Roland… Continue
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Article from: Herald Sun, Victoria
By staff writers
February 09, 2009 11:06am
Interactive map: Map: Where the fires are burning now
Photo gallery of bush fire disaster
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd said arsonists in…
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Feb. 9 2009
Bloomberg, New York, USA by Subramaniam Sharma
Kiribati, a Pacific island-nation in danger of being submerged because of global warming, may purchase land elsewhere to relocate its people, President Anote Tong said.
“We would consider buying land,” Tong said in an interview in New Delhi. “The alternative is that we die, we go extinct.” Kiribati, between Hawaii…
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Islands Business - Letter From Suva: Laisa Taga
Over the years, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has spent some F$200 million on hosting meetings in Fiji. That’s definitely a lot money. It means an average spending of more than F$5 million a year, if you take into account that the Forum was established in…
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09 February 2009 | 06:21:47 AM | Source:
SBS staff and agencies
The death toll in the Victorian bushfires has risen to 108, and there are fears it could rise still further as firefighters battle more than 30 fires still raging across the state.
Video footage availabable at:…
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Australia’s ‘Hell on Earth’ Fires May Burn for Days
Feb. 9 2009
Bloomberg New York, USA by Robert Fenner
Australia’s worst bushfires on record left at least 93 people dead and may burn for days as winds fan flames across southern Victoria state.
More than 300,000 hectares (741,316 acres) have been burnt and 700 homes destroyed with eight large blazes still…
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We would like to encourage our young Banabans (18-25 years) to enter this UNESCO competition. It you need any archival or historical research information we are happy to see if we can assist. To find out all the details on how to enter go to the link at the bottom of this page. Regards Stacey & Ken
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WANTED: The Next Generation of 'Green' Entrepreneurs
Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest global threats of our time.…
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ABC Radio Australia
3 Feb 2009
Australia's Trade minister says he wants to expand the country's termporary Pacific workers' scheme to become a broader, training and workers exchange mechanism. His comments to Radio Australia come as trade officials from Pacific countries prepare to meet in Australia later this month for further…
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AUSTRALIAN NETWORK NEWS
2 Feb 2009
The first temporary Pacific island fruit pickers under a new Australian scheme are now due to arrive towards the end of February, almost two months later than scheduled.
The Australian Government says two labour hire firms in the eastern Australian towns of Swan Hill and Griffith, where the first group of workers will be sent, have begun the process of…
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