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Prelim election results show tight race for urban seats in Kiribati
Six MPs from the last parliament, including one cabinet minister, are reported to have lost their seats, according to election results from the Ministry of Culutre and Internal Affairs.
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Tonga works on tracking gas emissions
Tonga could soon be able to track its own progress towards achieving targets.
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Pacific news in brief for August 16
16 Aug 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Fiji PM Sitiveni Rabuka meets with the Governor of the Yunnan Province, Wang Yubo, while on his trip to China.
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Kiribati election: Aspiring woman MP wants to fix 'govt inefficiencies'
Ruth Cross Kwansing is one of 18 female candidates out of 114 vying for a parliamentary seat in Kiribati's national election.
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'Tensions are rising', outgoing French Pacific fleet commander warns
16 Aug 2024Commodore Geoffroy d'Andigné warned against a false sense of security in the Pacific Ocean, or to think that a conflict on the other side of the world would not affect the region.
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Kiribati elections unofficial results: 'It is all community level effort where we ask each other'
Incumbent President Taneti Maamau has retained his seat in Onotoa, according to unofficial results after the first round of the polls on Wednesday.
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'More military planes than birds': US militarisation in Guam; self-defence or provocation?
As Washington tries to bolster its defence capabilities in the US territory, Guamanians are questioning whether militarisation will help or harm the people, the environment and their future. Audio
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China using economic coercion to influence Palau's relationship with Taiwan - Palau leader
Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr claims China is "weaponising tourism" in a bid to get the nation to sever its ties with Taiwan.
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New Caledonia unrest death toll rises to 11 following clash with gendarmes
15 Aug 2024In New Caledonia, violent unrest and clashes between the rioters and law enforcement units have killed one more person.
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Fiji back in World Rugby Council
World Rugby has reinstated the Fiji Rugby Union back as a member of the governing body's council almost 15 months after it was suspended due to "governance challenges".
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Tonga invites Elon Musk to Pacific leaders' summit
Tonga's government has extended an invitation to the billionaire entrepreneur to attend the annual Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting to be held in less than two weeks' time.
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More Pacific voices needed in climate literature - researcher
15 Aug 2024"There's a huge gap, not only in climate mobility, but climate literature, of the voices of Pacific people, of those who are at the forefront of climate change." Audio
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Pacific news in brief for August 15
15 Aug 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including activists marking three months of protests in New Caledonia.
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New Zealand mum writes for bi-cultural kids
15 Aug 2024"I feel really strongly that all kids should be able to see themselves represented in print."
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Evicted PNG settlers not giving up, two years on
14 Aug 2024People evicted from a large squatter settlement in Papua New Guinea's capital two years ago, want a slice of a new government fund. Audio
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Winston Peters says 'we need to keep engaged' with Micronesia
14 Aug 2024The President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) officially held his first ever bilateral meeting with a New Zealand government minister on Tuesday. Audio
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Nutritionist looking at food neophobia among Pasifika
An Otago University researcher hopes to gain insights into obesity among Pasifika by studying food neophobia - or resistance to new foods.
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'We have always supported our athletes' - Samoa govt on Lakapi Samoa's finance fiasco
Samoa's sports minister hits back at claims by Lakapi Samoa chairman that the government failed to fund the national men's 15s team's Europe tour in November.
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Auckland-based Samoan influencer and his pug, Fraser, on a mission to help men cook
Daniel Rankin, 29, is a baker and has taken TikTok by storm.
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Death of MP a great loss - Bougainville President
14 Aug 2024Ishmael Toroama said Father Simon was a prominent spiritual and political leader who lived a life bound by the morals of duty to his people and faith in his God.
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Kiribati polls open: 'Hype is not as it is in other countries'
A local resident in the capital Tarawa told RNZ Pacific on the eve of the election is an "important moment" for people of Micronesian nation.
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Samoa still reporting dengue cases, nine months on
14 Aug 2024In an update for the week from 29 July to 4 August, the health ministry said 494 lab-confirmed cases had been reported since November.
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Some Islanders don't want to leave homelands despite climate closing in - research
14 Aug 2024"We hear climate change this, climate change that, there's a flurry of activity and then it's done, but this is an ongoing issue," a University of Waikato researcher says. Audio
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Marshall Islands goes with other Pacific nations on Fukushima
13 Aug 2024President Hilda Heine has decided to join other Pacific countries in recognising "the IAEA as the authority on nuclear safety".
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