ABC NEWS Wed Feb 4, 2009
Australia has appointed career diplomat Brett Aldam as its next High Commissioner to Kiribati.
Mr Aldam will take up the post in April succeeding Anne Quinane who has been there since 2006.
Australia has maintained a diplomatic mission in Kiribati since 1981.
Mr Aldam is the Director of the United States Trade Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and…
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THE WASHINGTON POST
By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 23, 2009
Adam Fier, wife Misbah Sadat and daughters Maya and Maha moved to New Zealand partly out of climate concerns. (By Leah L. Jones For The Washington Post)
Adam Fier recently sold his home, got rid of his car and pulled…
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WAtoday.com
Michael Hartshorn February 20, 2009
LOCAL National Party MPs had lauded their arrival and church, social services, unions and government officials had lined up to ensure their smooth transition.
Alf Fangaloka (orange shirt) leads the Tongan arrivals down Robinvale's main street this… Continue
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3:12PM Wednesday February 18, 2009
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A man who was swept 30km out to sea in a small dinghy with his nephew, without lifejackets, oars or a cellphone, has been sentenced to 50 hours community work for putting lives at risk.
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) says it has successfully prosecuted Itintawara Baraniko, originally from Kiribati, under the Maritime Transport Act in…
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By Cristine Russell
February 28th, 2009; Vol.175 #5 (p. 24)
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TRICKY LANDING
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Much of the Maldives, including the land on which the Malé International Airport sits, is…
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SOLOMON TIMES ONLINE
Monday, February 16, 2009 10:59 AM
(Source: www.sciencenews.org)
The island nation of Kiribati is following in the steps of the Maldives by preparing for relocation for its people as the rising sea level threatens to submerge the nation.
Late last year, the Maldives' newly-elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, announced the nation's plans to buy land for the relocation of its people due…
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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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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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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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Stuff.co.nz
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Fiji’s military leader Frank Bainimarama has continued his attack on John Key, accusing New Zealand of using chequebook diplomacy and bullying the Pacific Island Forum’s smaller members.
Bainimarama has also said that the Pacific Forum has over stepped its boundaries by issuing an ultimatum to hold elections by May 1, and reiterated Fiji would hold elections in its own…
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The Dominion Post
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Kiribati man who was rescued after being found drifting in a dinghy with his nephew off Hawke's Bay faces a charge of operating a dinghy causing danger.
Itintarawa Baraniko appeared in Napier District Court yesterday charged under the Maritime Transport Act. If found guilty, he could be fined up to $10,000 or face up to a year in jail.
Baraniko, 38, and his…
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FIJI TIMES ONLINE
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is met at the airport by PNG Deputy PM Dr Puka Temu.
Picture: POST COURIER
FIJI stands to lose out on technical and financial regional assistance if it fails to come up with an election date by May 1.
The special summit of Pacific Island Forum Countries in…
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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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Solomon Times Online
by Gina Maka'a
Participants with their certificates
Thirty-two participants attended a one-week workshop that aims at helping people with alcohol addiction.
The "Alcohol and Family Recovery Awareness Program" workshop, described as an 'eye-opener', was conducted by four facilitators from Kiribati.
"The focus of the workshop is…
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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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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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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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Excerpt from
Connecting the Pacific NEWSROOM
07 January 2009
In keeping with Islands Business tradition, our senior writers Samisoni Pareti in Suva and Dev Nadkarni in Auckland give a quick overview of how 2009 may turn out for the islands in the Pacific.
Fiji Islands
Ever the rebel in the Pacific family of nations, Fiji might or might not be able to have a general election in…
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