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Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 23, 2009 at 3:01pm — No Comments

Football club's call cements arrival of Tongan guest workers

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

Added by Stacey King on February 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Kiribati Boatie in New Zealand sentenced for putting lives at risk

3:12PM Wednesday February 18, 2009

Source: NZPA

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 18, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

First wave - The presidents of two island nations draft escape plans, anticipating sea level rise

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 16, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Kiribati Seeks Relocation as Climate Change Sets In

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 16, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Environment: Takesy Full of Optimism for the Future

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 10, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Kiribati looks to move sea threatened communties abroadLast

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 10, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Kiribati Islanders Seek Land to Buy as Rising Seas Threaten

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 9, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

Troubled island nation (Kiribati) receives food aid from Taiwan

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on February 2, 2009 at 9:04am — 6 Comments

Fiji accuses regional powers of chequebook diplomacy

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 30, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Bainimarama continues NZ attack

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 29, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Kiribati Man faces charge after sea rescue from dingy in New Zealand

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 29, 2009 at 9:04am — No Comments

Fiji faces ultimatum

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 28, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

Moving back from the coastline

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 28, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments

Alcohol Awareness Workshop in Honiara conducted by Kiribati Group

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Ancient Polynesian seafaring renaissance

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 9:14am — No Comments

Rudd to attend Pacific Islands Forum

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 27, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

British court to hear Pacific nuclear test (Christmas Island - Kiribati) compensation case

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 21, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

ISLAND BUSINESS - What 2009 holds for Pacific Island nations

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… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 21, 2009 at 11:54am — No Comments

3 men from Tapiteuea survive 24-day sea ordeal - arrive in Solomons

SOLOMON STAR

Monday, 05 January 2009

THREE men from Kiribati who drifted without food and water for 24 days at sea arrived safely in Honiara yesterday after a fishing vessel rescued them.

They are Turii Akau, 47, Tentoa Auatabu, 62, and Pastor Kakai Berekeman 29. Speaking through a translator, Pr Berekeman said on 5… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 21, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment