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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RADIO AUSTRALIA NEWS
Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney
30 Jan 2009
Fiji's military-backed interim government has given its clearest indication yet that it will reject a Pacific Islands Forum ulitmatum to hold elections this year.
"Fiji's position is not going to change," said Fiji's interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.
Commadore Bainimarama has also…
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THE BOSTON CHRONICLE
By H.D.S. Greenway
January 27, 2009
EVER SINCE Captain Cook, mutiny on the Bounty, and Paul Gauguin, the South Pacific has held a special place in the Western imagination. The islands and atolls, swaying palms, and care-free people seemed to symbolize the great escape, a place where cares might be left behind, the closest thing this…
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Today Ata Terawea a male from Nasinu, Fiji joined Banaban Voice and became our 100th member.
Congratulations!
Stacey & Ken
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SYDNEY (Reuters)
By Michael Perry
Sun Jan 25, 2009
A Polynesian voyaging canoe will set sail from Hawaii in March and head into the South Pacific, aiming to reach tiny
Palmyra Atoll near Kiribati using only an ancient seafaring skill known as "wayfinding."
The double hulled canoe, similar to the canoes that sailed across the Pacific thousands of years before European…
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ONE News - New Zealand
Sunday January 25, 2009
WATCH the video (2:39) The central Pacific islands of Kiribati face a looming food crisis, as basic food items soar out of reach of the people there.
In one of the poorest countries of the Pacific, Kiribati families are struggling to fill their stomachs.
World prices and the cost of fuel have meant rice…
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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
ForumIlya Gridneff January 25, 2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will fly to Papua New Guinea to attend the special Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting to discuss Fiji's route back to democracy.
Mr Rudd had cancelled his travel plans after PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare shocked PIF members by announcing on Friday…
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FIJI TIMES ONLINE
THE election of councillors to the Rabi Island Council which was scheduled for Thursday has been deferred to April because of the flooding in the North. Commissioner Northern Inia Seruiratu sought the postponement of elections because all available government personnel were involved in the assessment and rehabilitation of the Northern Division after the floods. Council members are elected on a four-year…
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Radio New Zealand International
The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific
Te Reo Irirangi O Aotearoa, O Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa
Posted at 03:14 on 21 January, 2009 UTC
The first court hearing is due to start in London later today in a multi-million dollar compensation case brought by veterans of British nuclear weapons tests, including those in the Pacific.
The…
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NOW on PBS
Week of 12.12.08
Video: Washed Up?
The remote country of Niue is the world's smallest democracy, but it faces enormous environmental and economic challenges. See how this island nation is relying on new techniques—and some old ones—to save…
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NOW on PBS
Week of 12.12.08
Video: Paradise Lost
Just this week, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in…
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January 19 2009
Country News Australia
The proposed Federal Government Pacific Islander seasonal worker scheme has been delayed but it is not expected to affect Goulburn Valley horticulture.
The scheme proposes to bring Pacific Islanders to Australia on a guest worker basis to help with seasonal crops.
It will involve up to 2500 seasonal workers from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea,…
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Last Updated: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:55:00 +1100
ABC Radio News
The island nation of Kiribati is trying to increase the number of international flights which service it.
Pacific correspondent, Campbell Cooney, reports the government of Kiribati has asked for expressions of interest from airlines across the Pacific for the provision of both international services to Tarawa, and the other major population…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Updated Fri Jan 9, 2009 2:09pm AEDT
The future of Fiji's kava industry looks bright now that the European Union lifted its bans and reopened the European market. Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo, Chairman of Fiji's Kava Council, regards kava as the only hope for the country's economy as the sugar industry declines further. Ratu Josateki sees kava as one day becoming a multimillion dollar industry but says it is essential that the fledgling industry…
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For anyone that has any doubts over rising sea levels they need to visit Tarawa in Kiribati when the next westerly's and king tides hit the island and take a drive along the causeway between Betio and the island's capital Bairiki. When the waves start crashing over the roof of your car with the whole force of the Pacific Ocean behind them you can only hope and pray that you will not get washed away in the wild seas. Once you are on the causeway which is about 3klms long you are at the point of…
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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
“If these people can spend millions and millions on sending troops to fight other countries, why can’t they spend maybe a couple of billions just to save people, like ourselves; the marginalised, poorest of the poor. Why? Because we are taking the brunt, we are the victims of these green[house] gas emissions, the pollution made by industrialised countries.”
These words were spoken by a Carteret Islander in an unfinished documentary,…
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by Ranoba Banan Rabi: 5 January 2009 8:33am
Here are a few more names which I have highlighted:
Candidates are:
Tabwewa
Baeba Abetai
Katauea Ueue
Nei Terikano Terikano
Namatan Tiaterenga
Paulo Vanualailai
Uma
Butau Bureitetau
Teatu Rewi
Tebaia Tawita
Tuateira Buratake
** Ioane Terama **
** Burenimone Biara…
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Added by Stacey King on January 5, 2009 at 8:53am —
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I am sure many of our young Banaban generation will find these photos very interesting. They are photos of fossilized ancient and extinct Shark's tooth and other shells and phosphate rocks that were discovered by Roger Anderson in the 1960's amongst the phosphate diggings topside on Banaba.
Roger has had the Shark's Tooth dated and identified by an Australian Museum. Roger was the younger brother of Peter Anderson who also had a wonderful artifact collection from Te Aka village that…
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