Stacey King's Blog Posts Tagged 'Tonga' (18)

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 - Pacific Beat - Updated18 June 2012, 15:17 AEST

A largely unknown part of Pacific history is being celebrated in music, dance and drama at the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture, and Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.…

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…

Published: 3:06PM Tuesday December 20, 2011 Source: ONE News

Samoa will change its dateline next week, skipping a day to move into the same timezone as New Zealand, Australia and new business partners in Asia.

The shift is aimed at improving the Samoan economy, ONE News Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver explained to TV ONE's Breakfast.

"It's mainly to keep in line with New Zealand, Australia and Asia - who they're developing business links…

Pacific Beat ABC Radio Australia Updated November 17, 2010 09:19:54

Two years after it was first introduced, New Zealand's seasonal worker scheme has exceeded expectations.

Not only have participating Pacific Islanders seen their household incomes increase by 30 percent, but growers have benefited too, with a steady flow of reliable and affordable labourers.

But just across the Tasman in Australia, a similar pilot scheme has failed to get off the ground.

While New…

It was foretold by an obscure pastor who has now been locked up by the military regime for rumour mongering.

The US Geological Survey has reported that an earthquake of magnitude of 5.5 hit the Fiji…

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…

Nations around the Pacific Ocean are on full alert as a tsunami triggered by a 8.8 magnitude earthquake in central Chile brings higher than normal waves. Tsunami warnings have been sounded in an area affecting about a quarter of the globe. Waves have spread from the epicentre of quake and may strike land bordering the Pacific in the next 24 hours.Warning systems have improved since the 2004 Indonesia quake sparked a tsunami that killed nearly 250,000…