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Death threat prompts tight Samoa court security
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:23 pm | Radio New Zealand International
This comes after an election petition witness was given a death threat by one of the supporters for the first respondent, MP Paepaeuatele Kapeli Su’a. More >>
Fiji chiefs reappoint only two senators
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:22 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Only two of 14 senators sent by Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs to the dissolved senate will return to the new Upper House. More >>
Pacific leaders against Sydney as bank location
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:19 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Pacific delegates at an international conference in Port Moresby are objecting to plans to locate the regional office of a EU-funded investment bank in Sydney. More >>
Support for environment plan at PNG’s Ok Tedi mine
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:18 pm | Radio New Zealand International
An Australian mining advocacy group says it supports Papua New Guinea’s tough stance on the Ok Tedi mine to deliver an environment plan. More >>
Marshalls Islands joins International Whaling Com.
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:17 pm | Radio New Zealand International
But the government in Majuro has declined to say whether it supports Japan’s push for a lifting of the commercial whaling ban. More >>
400 union militants provide guard of New Caledonia
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 8:15 pm | Radio New Zealand International
400 members of the Kanak USTKE union in New Caledonia are providing a round-the-clock guard of the Noumea port run by the company, Sato, following a clash yesterday morning which saw three men taken to hospital. More >>
PNG: Ok Tedi says no sign of planned mine closure
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:49 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The Managing Director of the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea says the company has received no indication from the government about intentions to shut down its operations. More >>
Fiji’s Chaudhry ponders action,possible opposition
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:47 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The Fiji Labour Party is reported to be planning what steps to take if President Iloilo does not appoint its leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, as the opposition leader. More >>
Pro-democracy march planned in Tonga
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:45 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Pro-democracy groups plan to march in the Tonga capital, Nuku’alofa, tomorrow and will again petition the King to make his government fully democratic. More >>
New Caledonia’s port reopens after union blockade
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:44 pm | Radio New Zealand International
New Caledonia’s main port is open again after a ten-day blockade by the Kanak USTKE union which objects to the arrival of two new big international shipping companies. More >>
Papuan religious leader spooked by Indonesians
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:42 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The Head of the Papua’s Baptist church says harassment by Indonesia won’t stop him speaking out about human rights and justice in the province. More >>
Australia cancels passport, citizen charged PNG
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:40 pm | Radio New Zealand International
An Australian man facing a murder charge in Papua New Guinea says the Australian government has found him guilty already by cancelling his passport. More >>
Niue: NZ send engineer & generator following fire
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:39 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The New Zealand aid agency, NZAID, is to send a new generator and an electrical engineer to Niue after a major fire on the island last night left most of the population without power. More >>
Australia warns Pacific about pro-whaling stance
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:33 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The Australian environment minister, Ian Campbell, says Pacific Island nations risk angering the rest of the world if they support the return of commercial whaling. More >>
New Fiji minister urged to be positive
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 8:20 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Fiji’s prime minister has urged his new minister for energy and mineral resources from the Labour Party, Lekh Ram Vyashnoi, to think positive. More >>
New Caledonian: Resistance to Goro Nickel project
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:11 pm | Radio New Zealand International
New Caledonia’s dominant Future Together Party says the environmental concern expressed by the Kanak Rheebu Nuu group masks a quest for political power. More >>
New Fiji ministers vow to probe alleged scams
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:09 pm | Radio New Zealand International
Two newly appointed Fiji Labour Party ministers in the multi-party cabinet say they will investigate scams which occurred in their ministries during the term of the former government. More >>
American Samoan bishop comments on Da Vinci Code
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:06 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The leader of the Catholic Church in American Samoa, Bishop John Quinn Weitzel, is confident that Christians in the territory will take the movie the Da Vinci Code for what it is, a film filled with historical and doctrinal errors. More >>
Solomons PM policy focus to help rural areas
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:04 pm | Radio New Zealand International
The prime minister of Solomon Islands says he wants to improve the lives of indigenous people in the country and foster greater rural development. More >>
French Polynesia judge removed due to negligence
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:03 pm | Radio New Zealand International
A top French judge in French Polynesia, Jean-Bernard Taliercio, has been removed from his position over a lack of impartiality in Tahiti where he served since 1984. More >>
