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Stacey King's Blog – June 2009 Archive (32)

Fiji hosts regional meeting focusing on domestic violence against women

www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-09 14:34:13



SUVA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Domestic violence truly still kills pacific women today. This was heard in a regional meeting that is being held in Fiji this week where issues of domestic violence has been thrashed out. Whether it's perceived sorcery-related killings of women in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the frequency of murders of women in Tonga, outdated laws in Solomon… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 10, 2009 at 9:45am — No Comments

Work on Jetties start next month

FIJIVILLAGE.COM Publish date/time: 09/06/2009 [10:57]

The Works Ministry is eyeing the completion of the Kadavu and Rabi jetties by early next year. Works Ministry spokesperson Sainiana Waqainabete said the Kadavu and Rabi jetties will cost the government $1 and $1.5 million respectively, and work should be starting by next month. Waqainabete said while they awarded the tender for the Kadavu project,… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 10, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Mereta Tabuariki Photo - Fiji Times Article

LIVING HER DREAM

MERETA Tabuariki

Added by Stacey King on June 5, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

How coconut oil can help beat recession

NEW ZEALAND HERALD - 4:00AM Friday Jun 05, 2009 By Vaimoana Tapaleao



Coconut oil, woven mats and noni juice are some of the products that will help Pacific Islanders to get through the recession, a conference in Auckland has heard. Members of Pacific communities met at the "Brother Pacific Wave: Weathering the Economic Storm" conference this week to discuss how Pacific Islanders, at home and… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 5, 2009 at 9:45am — No Comments

Call for Pacific to join forces for economic gain Producing and Exporting Virgin Coconut Oil

RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL - Posted at 04:28 on 03 June, 2009 UTC

Samoa’s Women in Business Development Inc and Oxfam have joined forces to assist other Pacific countries to develop their potential in supplying export products like virgin coconut oil. CEO Adi Tafuna’i says they have pioneered a model that has seen them exporting their oil to the British-based Body Shop… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 4, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Indonesia's rent-an-island answer to climate change

AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS - Steve Holland

The South Pacific pounds the coastline of Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu. [AFP]3 June 2009

Indonesia is considering renting some of its islands to people fleeing Pacific territories as climate change raises sea levels. The Indonesian Maritime Minister's proposal comes as a report this week reinforces the need to accommodate… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Families pray for kidnapped Tuvalu, Fiji sailors

ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA Updated Tue Jun 2, 2009 4:06pm AEST



The families of the dozen Pacific islanders being held by Somali pirates are continuing to pray for their safe return. Eleven sailors from Tuvalu, and one from Fiji, were kidnapped two months ago and very little has been heard from them since. The pirates are demanding a ransom of 15 million US dollars - the kind of money a tiny island nation like… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 3, 2009 at 7:28am — No Comments

Pacific Islands Bullied by Australian, NZ Trade Officials, Say Experts

By Diane Cordemans - Epoch Times May 30, 2009



AUCKLAND, N.Z.—Tactics employed by Australia and New Zealand to push Pacific Island countries into signing a free trade agreement are a form of “contemporary colonization,” said academic and respected analyst on Pacific Island affairs, Professor Jane Kelsey at a seminar in Auckland last week.



Pacific Island officials involved in the Pacific Agreement on Closer… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 11:27am — 1 Comment

Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) fisheries grouping to set up own secretariat in the Marshall Islands

New Zealand Radio International - Posted at 22:38 on 31 May, 2009 UTC



A group of small Pacific islands nations is banding together to force Asian countries to pay more for tuna caught in the region. The Parties to the Nauru Agreement, or PNA, countries are establishing their own secretariat in the Marshall Islands. The PNA countries have also used their muscle to force a change from the past practice of licencing… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 10:57am — No Comments

Marshall Islands Looks for Deals to Bring Economic Boost

MIJournal : YOKWE.online

Metal million: Cleaning up Majuro makes mega-bucks - 30 years of scrap metal littering the island.

METAL COLLECTION: Majuro Atoll Waste Corporation is hoping to make a million dollars or more from the sale of 30,000 tons of scrap heavy metal. According to MAWC manager, Roger Cooper (pictured), the company is hoping to have the unsightly scrap moved off island by… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

Kiribati officials to ride in cars worth nearly 650,000 US dollars at celebrations

RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL - Posted at 23:27 on 01 June, 2009 UTC



When Kiribati celebrates its 30th year of independence on July 12, the President and his 15 Cabinet Ministers will be riding in brand new cars that are costing the government nearly 650 thousand US dollars. Marao Maen of Tarawa Motors, the local agent for Toyota which won the tender for the new official cars, says the President will have a… Continue

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

***CONGRATULATIONS 400th MEMBER - Nei Akka***

Welcome to our niece Nei Akka Rimon for being our 400th member to join Banaban Voice. Akka is currently living in Sydney while completing her university course and will return to work back in Kiribati when she graduates.

Added by Stacey King on June 2, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

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