ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Tue Jun 2, 2009 4:06pm AEST
The families of the dozen Pacific islanders being held by Somali pirates are continuing to pray for their safe return. Eleven sailors from Tuvalu, and one from Fiji, were kidnapped two months ago and very little has been heard from them since. The pirates are demanding a ransom of 15 million US dollars - the kind of money a tiny island nation like…
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By Diane Cordemans -
Epoch Times May 30, 2009
AUCKLAND, N.Z.—Tactics employed by Australia and New Zealand to push Pacific Island countries into signing a free trade agreement are a form of “contemporary colonization,” said academic and respected analyst on Pacific Island affairs, Professor Jane Kelsey at a seminar in Auckland last week.
Pacific Island officials involved in the Pacific Agreement on Closer…
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New Zealand Radio International - Posted at 22:38 on 31 May, 2009 UTC
A group of small Pacific islands nations is banding together to force Asian countries to pay more for tuna caught in the region. The Parties to the Nauru Agreement, or PNA, countries are establishing their own secretariat in the Marshall Islands. The PNA countries have also used their muscle to force a change from the past practice of licencing…
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Metal million: Cleaning up Majuro makes mega-bucks - 30 years of scrap metal littering the island.
METAL COLLECTION: Majuro Atoll Waste Corporation is hoping to make a million dollars or more from the sale of 30,000 tons of scrap heavy metal. According to MAWC manager, Roger Cooper (pictured), the company is hoping to have the unsightly scrap moved off island by…
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL - Posted at 23:27 on 01 June, 2009 UTC
When Kiribati celebrates its 30th year of independence on July 12, the President and his 15 Cabinet Ministers will be riding in brand new cars that are costing the government nearly 650 thousand US dollars. Marao Maen of Tarawa Motors, the local agent for Toyota which won the tender for the new official cars, says the President will have a…
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Welcome to our niece Nei Akka Rimon for being our 400th member to join Banaban Voice. Akka is currently living in Sydney while completing her university course and will return to work back in Kiribati when she graduates.
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FIJI DAILY POST 29-May-2009 11:54 AM
STAKEHOLDERS in the copra industry have set in motion plans to make their industry topple Fiji’s major agriculture export, sugar. And part of that plan is introducing a barter system that sees copra farmers and suppliers exchange their copra for groceries and goods provided by a major player in the wholesale industry. Coconut Industry Development Authority (CIDA)…
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FIJI TIMES ONLINE Saturday, May 30, 2009
THERE'S a huge potential for cruise visitors to Fiji after a 613 per cent jump in arrivals last year compared to 2007. The figures released by the Bureau of Statistics show 17,371 cruise visitors arrived in Fiji in 2008 compared to 2435 in 2007. In 2006, there were no cruise liners visiting our ports. Cruise shipping is becoming more ideal for international travellers because it is…
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Cuban News Agency HAVANA, Cuba, May 29 (acn)
The vice-president of Kiribati, Teima Onorio, thanked Cuba on Thursday for the cooperation in the field of health received from the archipelago. During a meeting in that small nation in the Pacific, Onorio highlighted the work of the Cuban medical brigade in her country, made up by 15 specialists, which has offered its services since 2006 to its some 105,000…
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Rabi High School is located in Tabiang with a total roll of 250 students.
The only secondary school on the island, offers classes from Forms One to Seven administered by a staff of 25.
The former site for the school was located at the Government station in Nuku which was opened in 1985 by the then British Ambassador.
It was a Junior Secondary School then having the first Principal who was a local (Banaban) by the name of Teiwaki Benaia.
The current…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA BROADCAST - Updated 4 hours 52 minutes ago
Twelve Tuvaluans and one Fiji citizen are continuing to be held hostage by Somali pirates. The seamen, and eleven others, are crewmen aboard the German registered cargo ship, the Hansa Stavanger, which was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean two months ago. Their plight has only been made public recently.
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General News RTT NEWS 5/6/2009 4:34 PM ET
(RTTNews) - U.S. navy on Wednesday suspended the departure of a naval vessel to the South Pacific on an aid mission after a sailor on the vessel was diagnosed with swine flu. The navy said that it had suspended the departure of California-based USS Dubuque after 50 others on board the vessel showed signs of swine flu infection. It added that other options,…
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Published: 2 May 09 12:27 CET Online: http://www.thelocal .de/national/
20090502-
19019.html
The German government pulled back the elite combat force GSG 9 from
storming the
pirate-held ship Hansa Stavanger at the last minute, it was reported at
the weekend.
Politicians pulled back the force amid fears that an attempt to free the
ship would
end in a blood bath.
The container ship, captured by pirates off the Somali coast at…
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SOLOMONS STAR - Thursday, 28 May 2009
THE Shortlands Boxing select team returned from Nauru Boxing Challenge with medals, an indication they are medal prospects for Solomon Islands in the Pacific Mini Games. The local boxing team, who arrived last Tuesday evening, won three of the eight categories. Nauru national team won five…
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By ELENOA BASELALA
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
THE Fiji Government will approach the international community for assistance as the mother of Somali hostage and Fiji national Wayne Suliana pleads for his release.
Foreign Affairs acting deputy permanent secretary Sila Balawa said the Fiji missions in London and Brussels would be alerted to contact ACP and European Union counterparts for assistance in the release of Mr Suliana and the 11 Tuvaluans that were being held…
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UPIASIA.COM By Hiroshi Yamazaki UPI Correspondent Published: May 25, 2009
Tokyo, Japan — While Japan's global economic edge is being shaken, the world's No. 2 economy is turning to environmental initiatives to retain its leading role, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
At the Fifth Japan-Pacific Islands Forum Summit held last week in Tomamu, Japan, Prime Minister Taro Aso…
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FIJI VILLAGE.COM25/05/2009 [11:55]
Jetties in Kadavu and Rabi are currently in the process of development in an effort to uplift services in the outer islands and interior places. This had been confirmed by Works Permanent Secretary Anand Kumar who said the course way road has been done while a tender is in the process of being advertised for the construction of the jetty by a contractor. Kumar…
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We have just received a copy of the latest AIR PACIFIC issue on their inflight magazine and there is a 5 page colour spread all about the Banabans and Rabi.
We have put up details on the Rabi Page at:
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Great to see that there is more awareness growing of the Banabans plight…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Updated 5 hours 20 minutes ago
Tuvalu wants to get Air Fiji flying again which was grounded earlier this month because of financial problems. Staff have not been paid for weeks. Tuvalu's Transport Minister, Taukelina Finikaso, has just returned from Fiji where he has been holding talks with key stakeholders.
Presenter: Jemima Garrett
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL - Posted at 03:43 on 21 May, 2009 UTC
The leaders of small Pacific Island countries have heaped praise on Japan’s aid programme and asked for more as the fifth Pacific Area Leaders Meeting, or PALM, gears up for its official opening in Hokkaido tomorrow night. They say increasingly extreme droughts and sea water inundation on low islands are causing hardships for islanders across the…
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