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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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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THE UNIVERSITY REGISTER – Campus newspaper of University of Minnesota, Morris USA
Written by Mitch Grussing
Sunday, 01 February 2009
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati (pronounced ki-ri-bas) recently received a 200-ton donation of rice from Taiwan. According to a report by Television New Zealand, rising world food and petroleum prices have had a dramatic…
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NEW ZEALAND HERALD ONLINE
4:00AM Saturday Jan 31, 2009
By Greg Ansley
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Photo / AP
CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed more than New Zealand counterpart John Key's cast when he flew to Port Moresby for the Pacific Forum summit.
He confirmed his Government's intention to…
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