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Fiji govt seeks public submission on security plan for women
The ministry said it wants to "gather your valuable insights" about how it can make Fiji's defence and security sector "more gender-inclusive and responsive".
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Agenda setting for Pacific leaders' meeting
Opinion - The prime ministers of Cook Islands, Fiji and Solomon Islands hope to be in the New Caledonia next week, before heading to Tonga to report back, Tess Newton Cain writes.
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Pacific news in brief for August 13
13 Aug 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Sitiveni Rabuka's trip to China.
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Kiribati elections 2024 - what we know
Campaigning, which has been going on for months, has "become more intense" and "the incumbent candidates seeking re-election [are] really going out", a Kiribati journalist says.
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Rabuka 'will apologise' to MSG leaders after failing to secure West Papua visit
13 Aug 2024Rabuka, says he will "apologise" to fellow Melanesian leaders later this month after failing to secure agreement from Indonesia to visit its restive West Papua province.
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Can overseas workers boost Pacific prosperity?
12 Aug 2024Analysis - As Pacific Island nations navigate their way out of pandemic debt, work abroad schemes could help, Paresh Narayan and Bernard Iyke write.
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The Pacific rugby funding dilemma
Opinion - The lack of finance to support rugby in the islands is the same across most of the so-called rugby developing nations, Iliesa Tora writes.
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NZ gives more than $6 million to support 'resilient and prosperous Marshall Islands'
12 Aug 2024The $6.2 m project is aimed at boosting cooperation between the two nations and making island communities more resilient, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says.
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US territories get greenlight for associate membership to regional body
13 Aug 2024"There is widespread support for the membership of Guam and American Samoa...that is the recommendation from [Pacific Islands Forum] foreign ministers." Audio
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Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia
10 Aug 2024The three-person Pacific leaders mission to New Caledonia is expected to happen prior to the Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga on 26 August, PIF chair Mark Brown says.
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Team Pacific concludes Paris 2024 with one silver
12 Aug 2024The Olympic Games closed in Paris, with the Pacific only managing one silver thanks to the Fijian men's sevens rugby team, who lost to host France in the final.
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Vanuatu PM talks marijuana, seasonal workers and cyclones in New Zealand
Charlot Salwai was in Aotearoa for an official visit this week, where he met his counterpart Christopher Luxon for bilateral talks on labour mobility, climate change, Pacific regionalism. Audio
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Pacific news in brief for August 12
12 Aug 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the relocation of the PNG Defence Force.
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Kiribati voters getting down to the nitty-gritty ahead of poll
The soaring cost of living and signs the government's struggling to meet its obligations are dominant discussion points going into next Wednesday's first poll in Kiribati. Audio
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New Caledonia’s curfew extended until 19 August
12 Aug 2024New Caledonia's curfew, which was imposed days after violent unrest broke out on 13 May, has been extended until 19 August, the French High commission said on Friday.
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Samoan govt has urged its citizens to surrender guns ahead of CHOGM
Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa says "the safety and security of all world leaders attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is critical".
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French Pacific news in brief
10 Aug 2024A round-up of news in brief from the French Pacific region, including baby's body found on a Nouméa beach, Qantas resumes flights to Nouméa, and Tahiti's judge's tower will be dismantled.
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Macron gives New Caledonia Pacific mission green light - diplomat
10 Aug 2024France has approved a high-level Pacific "fact-finding mission" to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved in the ongoing crisis. Audio
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Lifters potential medal winners at Paris Olympics
9 Aug 2024Two Pacific Island weightlifters are possible medal winners at the Paris Olympics, as the Games winds down this weekend.
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Severe drought impacted these remote Micronesian islands. Now they're drought-proofing
9 Aug 2024After a severe and prolonged drought, communities across the state of Yap and its outer islands in FSM a are future-proofing water supplies amid a changing climate.
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'I want to take everything I've learned back home'
9 Aug 2024Cook Islands' Antony Vavia, 28, is first Pacific islander to graduate with a doctoral degree within marine sciences from Auckland University of Technology.
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NZ, Aus pour almost NZ$50m for Pacific humanitarian warehouses program
9 Aug 2024The two countries will invest a combined NZ$47.5 million, working alongside other partners such as the United States, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
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'This year was about improving finances', says Lakapi Samoa chair
9 Aug 2024Manu Samoa has pulled out of their 2024 Northern Hemisphere tour because of a financial crisis, which World Rugby said is of the union's own making.
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Guam defends missile testing, nukes, to maintain 'peace'
Governor Lou Leon Guerrero says the US territory has no choice but to defend itself amid ongoing nuclear threats to the Asia-Pacific region. Audio
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