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Cook Islands op. holding off on no confidence vote
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 12:31 am | Radio New Zealand International
The Cook Islands opposition’s planned motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Jim Marurai will have to wait while parliament discusses the new budget. More >>
Former Tongan PM says Prince’s death a great loss
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 12:30 am | Radio New Zealand International
Former Prime Minister says Prince Tu’ipelehake’s death a great loss for all of Tonga More >>
UN Developing Country status: 4 Pacific countries
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 12:28 am | Radio New Zealand International
Vanuatu has been earmarked to be raised to Developing Country status from its current Least Developed Country status by the United Nations. More >>
Tonga’s PM says deaths of royal couple a tragedy
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 12:23 am | Radio New Zealand International
The prime minister of Tonga says the King’s Cabinet has agreed that the work of the National Committee of the Kingdom of Tonga for Political Reform will continue. More >>
Nauru: Most Tuvaluans, Kiribati to be repatriated
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:20 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Several hundred I-Kiribati and Tuvaluans and their families should be repatriated from Nauru by the end of this month. More >>
Tokelau vote: UN resolution vindicates NZ - Peters
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:18 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has welcomed a United Nations resolution commending the transparent and professional way in which New Zealand handled Tokelau’s referendum on self-government. More >>
Former SIs MP backs switching allegiance to China
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:15 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A former Cabinet Minister in Solomon Islands, Alfred Sasako, says the country should take up diplomatic ties with China. More >>
Solomons/Taiwan: SI PM says Chinas rights a factor
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:13 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Solomons PM says China’s human rights record is a major factor in commitment to Taiwan More >>
PNG undergoes cabinet reshuffle
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:10 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Papua New Guinea’s Treasurer, Bart Philomen, has been dumped and the deputy prime minister, Sir Moi Avei, has been demoted in a cabinet reshuffle. More >>
Talks planned today on Bougainville assassination
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 9:00 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A meeting scheduled for today between the president of the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville and PNG’s mining minister over an alleged plot to assassinate the president, has been postponed. More >>
Paying compensation hurts traditional PNG society
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:59 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A leader in Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands is calling for a law change to make paying compensation illegal. More >>
PNG police think more bodies may be found on coast
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:57 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Villagers on a remote Papua New Guinea coastline are looking for more bodies after finding eight badly decomposed corpses last week on beaches just north of Australia’s border in the Torres Strait. More >>
Concern in Fiji Labour at son's actions Chaudhry
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:56 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Senior members of the Fiji Labour Party are reported to have expressed concern that Mahendra Chaudhry’s son, Rajendra, has been trying to act as the party leader in his father’s absence. More >>
Bougainville police to escort former Fiji soldiers
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:54 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The police in the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville say they are ready to escort five former Fijian soldiers from the province, should they be asked. More >>
Papuan separatist calls for international help
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:52 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A Papuan separatist leader has called for international help in the face of what he calls genocide in the Indonesian province. More >>
Samoan MP admits previous criminal conviction
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:38 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A Samoan Member of Parliament for the ruling Human Rights Protection Party has made public a previous criminal conviction. More >>
Concern as Tonga pays out redundancy to hundreds
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 1:59 pm | Radio New Zealand International
There is concern in Tonga over how services will be maintained as hundreds of public servants take redundancy. More >>
Solomon SICA says church should visit Weathercoast
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 1:58 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The general secretary of the Solomon Islands Christian Association, or SICA, says a visit by church leaders could reduce some of the tension on the Weathercoast region of Guadalcanal. More >>
Students angery after strike at PNG’s Univerity
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 1:56 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Students at Papua New Guinea’s University of Goroka went on a rampage at their campus this week after staff at the university walked off their jobs demanding the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr David Rawlence. More >>
Pacific leaders study nation building in Solomons
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 1:54 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Twelve people deemed Emerging Pacific Islands Leaders are currently in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara to study nation building. More >>
