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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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Monday 26 January 2009
Faith Bandler, the daughter of a man brought forcibly to Australia from Ambrym in Vanuatu during the notorious blackbirding era, is one of three people awarded Australia's highest honour in today's Australia Day Honours.
Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speakers: Faith Bandler one of three people awarded Australia's top honours in Australia Day…
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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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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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ABC Radio Australia
Updated Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:49pm AEDT
As the Australian Football League's pre-season gears up, one Fijian teenager is joining the Western Bulldogs for training this week, hoping to make its international rookie list, while another has been denied a visa because of Australia's sanctions against Fiji's interim government.
Presenter: Rachael…
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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…
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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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AFL Australia 17 January 2009
Country snapshot
The tiny island nation of Nauru, located in the South Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is just 21 square kilometres in area.
A coral atoll of around 13,000 people, Nauru's isolation has led to the development of a native tongue unlike any other Polynesian…
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January 16, 2009
THE TIMES - UK
Mr Malcolm McLachlan, MBE, has been appointed Her Majesty’s High Commissioner to the Republic of the
Fiji Islands and Her Majesty’s non-resident High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Tonga, the Republic of Vanuatu, the Republic of
Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Republic of Nauru, in succession to Mr Roger Sykes, OBE, who will be leaving…
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Friday, 25 July 2008 00:00
Marianas News
TARAWA (Pacnews) — With limited job opportunities for I-Kiribati youth at home, President Anote Tong said his government’s top priority is expanding overseas employment opportunities, reports Pacific Magazine.
Tong acknowledged that the government cannot provide all school leavers and graduates with employment in Kiribati.
Finding employment for I-Kiribati youth is top on…
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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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Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor | January 17, 2009
Article from:
The Australian
FOREIGN Minister Stephen Smith yesterday announced that Australia would increase to $3million its relief package for Fiji, where floods have this week killed 12, forced 10,500 people to be evacuated and devastated the economy.
Canberra has increased its aid despite continuing tense…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Updated Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:17pm AEDT
There are no signs of improvement in the heavy weather which has hit Fiji over the past fortnight. Since the last weekend flooding has left around nine thousand living in emergency accommodation. It's left international tourists stranded, and communities cut off from the rest of the country. So far the damage bill has been estimated at well over 10 million Fijian dollars, and as Pacific Correspondent Campbell…
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YES PACIFIC BLOG
Posted by Aaron Taouma at 4:32 PM
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Talofa and welcome to 2009.
Now, not having been a regular blogger before I do but try. This year though I have decided to try and at least have one article/commentary per week posted to this site.
It is quite general and “me” specific at times but any thoughts, opinions and clarifications within the Pacific diaspora is valuable and adds to the totality of…
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ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA
Updated Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:06pm AEDT
Australia's Federal Opposition has accused the government of administrative failure for not yet implementing the Pacific seasonal labour pilot scheme. Under the initiative, workers from any of four Pacific island nations will be granted special visas to come to this country to harvest fruit and vegetables in regions with acute labour shortages. But, in many of those areas, the harvest is already in full…
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