Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'Nauru' (20)

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - PACIFIC BEAT  Updated 4 July 2012, 9:57 AEST

Water and sanitation issues in Nauru are complex and challenging.…

ABC RADIO Pacific Beat - Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:18 +1000

Nauru has become the first Pacific nation to formalise the seasonal worker scheme with Australia which comes in to effect next month.

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated December 21, 2011 09:44:05

A program which allows people from the Pacific to work for a limited period mainly in Australia's horticultural industry is to be expanded.



A three-year test scheme will enable people to work in the tourism, cane and cotton industries.



The original two-thousand-and-eight program allowed up to two-and-a-half thousand workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and…

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:25 Written by News Release Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:14 Guam News - Guam News

Suva, Fiji - “With a project as significant and exciting as this, we expect that there will be…

Australia has recently…

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‘The Pacific Islands region has notched up consistently significant achievements in the renewable energy space in  the past few years. It is on these that the region needs to build on. So far, it has been fairly successful in attracting funding for small…

Pacific Beat RADIO AUSTRALIA  Updated July 27, 2011 16:59:01

Nauru's President says a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York has taken a step towards recognising climate change as a global security threat. Marcus Stephen says they didn't go as far as Nauru and other small island states would have liked. There had been talk of setting up a United Nations force which could intervene in conflicts caused by climate change, which would be called "Green Helmets", but that idea…

FijiVillage.com - Publish date/time: 18/01/2011 [07:19]

Fiji citizens can now apply for seasonal work in the United States after Fiji was included in a newly revised list of eligible nations by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

AFP news agency reports that in total, 53 countries are eligible this year for the temporary guest worker visas, called H 2A and H 2B.

Most of the other newcomer countries on the list were in Oceania which includes Fiji, Kiribati,…

ABC RADIO PACIFIC BEAT Updated December 7, 2010 17:53:14

Free public access computers for children could soon be coming to the Pacific.

India's Hole In The Wall company is expecting final approval from the Ministry of External affairs early next year.

That will see free computer 'learning stations' installed in Fiji, PNG, Nauru, Kiribati and Vanuatu.

The project began as an experiment a decade ago ... placing a single computer in the wall of a New Delhi slum, then…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - PACIFIC BEAT Updated August 2, 2010 16:45:25

Nauru's foreign affairs minister has dismissed comments in the Australian media that Nauru was simply out to make a buck by saying they were ready to sign the United Nations convention on refugees.

The comments about Nauru on the hot-button election issue of how to deal with asylum seekers were attributed to Labor party…

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA - Pacific Beat Updated July 26, 2010 07:13:09

Australia's federal opposition is moving to put Nauru back on the map as an immigration processing centre for Australia.

The opposition's shadow minister for immigration, Scott Morrison, is considering a visit to Nauru soon.

He says the opposition would take any early opportunity to talk with leaders of…

NZ Radio International Posted at 05:16 on 21 April, 2010 UTC

The European Union is set to expand its solar power project into two new countries.

The EU has announced it will inject 37 million US dollars into the project that began five years ago in the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Niue, Nauru and Palau.

The project aims to bring solar power to remote outer islands, and to improve energy efficiency through grid-connected renewable…