FIJI TIMES ONLINE Thursday, June 11, 2009
The narrowness of criminal laws to cater for specific forms of violence against women and girls, apart from assault, is a major concern. This is the view of Maere Tekanene, the Kiribati participant at the Fifth Pacific Regional Meeting on Violence against Women being held at the Naviti Resort.
She said it was challenging to convince male leaders "of the reliability of…
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL Posted at 23:05 on 07 June, 2009 UTC
Kiribati’s parliament has formed a four-man select committee to investigate the legality of foreign investors operating in the country. The committee has indicated it will concentrate on the Chinese business community which is growing rapidly. MP Teatao Teannaki, who is chairing the new committee, says their terms of reference include revisiting…
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I was sitting all alone by myself
with no one beside me
my tears we're falling
with no one to comfort me
my life is so complicated
and i could not cope with
the hardships coming towards myself
suddenly a stranger's shoulder
appear in front of me
melting all my sorrows
bring me back my smiles
finally thanks to this stranger
helping me escape from
the darkness .
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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it's perceived sorcery-related killings of women in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the frequency of murders of women in Tonga, outdated laws in Solomon…
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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,…
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LIVING HER DREAM
MERETA Tabuariki
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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…
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MERETA Tabuariki created quite a scandal on Rabi Island in Cakaudrove when she showed up to work in overalls.
It was unbecoming for a young woman to be dressed as such, according to the proponents of island tradition.
Some of the outraged saw fit to question her audacity and demanded that she conform to the mold.
Her career choice was even more unacceptable but the 32-year-old Technical Drawing teacher was pursuing a dream and the opposition presented mere…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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