Greenpeace and the Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association (PITIA) have criticized Pacific Island governments for allowing subsidized distant-water fishing fleets to fish in Pacific Islands waters.
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Tuesday 24 September 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Tuesday 10 September 2013
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Majuro, Marshall Islands
The European Union will boost the defence of Pacific Island countries against natural disasters with a €20 Million support programme. According to the European Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard “For the Pacific people climate change is not about a distant future. ...This programme will help the Pacific states in their efforts to adapt to this new climate reality.”
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Monday 9 September 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s high speed internet will be on show during a Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) Conference, PacINET to be held on September 9-13 in Nuku’alofa.
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Sunday 8 September 2013
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Majuro, Marshall Islands
The Republic of Kiribati and the United States have signed a boundary treaty delimiting the waters between their two countries.
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Sunday 8 September 2013
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Suva, Fiji
King Tupou VI of Tonga, the 20th Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, conferred certificates, diplomas and degrees earned by 713 graduating students at the Laucala Campus, on Friday, 6 September, 2013.
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Sunday 8 September 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Australia has chosen a new government, with Tony Abbott as its new Prime Minister-elect, after the Parliamentary Election results were announced before 10:00pm yesterday September 7, following the defeat conceded by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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Friday 6 September 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano received a cheque of NZ$1.5 million in budget support from the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O’Neil on September 5, in the Marshall Islands.
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Tuesday 3 September 2013
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Auckland, New Zealand
Tongans in New Zealand have begun celebrating “Tongan Language Week” with various events promoting the Tongan language, being held from September 1-7.
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Friday 23 August 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Representatives from 15 Pacific Islands countries and territories (PICTs) and various international aviation regulators gathered in Suva, Fiji last week to discuss aviation security in the Fourth Pacific Directors of Civil Aviation meeting.
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Wednesday 21 August 2013
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Pohnpei, Micronesia
Tuna Stocks are declining and current management measures are failing to restore stocks. This according to the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission who concluded a ten day meeting on Monday August 19 in Pohnpei, Micronesia.
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Tuesday 20 August 2013
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Auckland, New Zealand
Prime Minister Tu’ivakano will attend the third annual Polynesia Leader’s Group meeting on 30 August in Auckland.
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Tuesday 20 August 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fiji’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola has slammed comments made by New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, regarding Fiji’s current isolation policy from the Pacific Island Forum.
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Friday 9 August 2013
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
Fiji’s Prime Minister, Commodore Josaia Ovrequ Bainimarama, this week told Pacific Islands leaders at the Sheraton Fiji Resort that he believed that ordinary people had been excluded from the decision-making process in regional government.
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Wednesday 7 August 2013
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Sydney, Australia
In a new report Greenpeace is calling for the exclusion of large-scale “and destructive” foreign-owned vessels from national waters, in a bid to help small locally owned Pacific Islands fisheries survive and to sustain precious tuna reserves for the future.
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Monday 5 August 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Chief executive officers, cabinet secretaries and leading administrators from Commonwealth Pacific member states are meeting in Nuku’alofa this week to come up with an agreed plan of action on how to better support the political and administration environment at the centre of Government.
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Wednesday 24 July 2013
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Suva, Fiji
Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Pacific Regional Trade and Development Facility, an initiative to improve the delivery of aid to Pacific Island countries.
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Friday 12 July 2013
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Nadi, Fiji
A highly anticipated meeting between Pacific Island countries, on climate change and disaster risk management concluded yesterday in Nadi, Fiji, in a new joint effort to represent the concerns of the countries in a region that is most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea level rise.
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Tuesday 9 July 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Economic cooperation with the emerging Asian economies is important for the economic recovery of Pacific Islands, Forum Economic Ministers agreed at the 17th Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) in Nuku'alofa from 4-5 July.
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Tuesday 9 July 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The New Zealand government has suspended its promised multi-million dollar aid to develop tourism in Tonga, over safety concerns around the new Chinese-made MA60 aircraft that the Tonga government plans to use for the domestic inter-island service.
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Tuesday 2 July 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
People living in the Pacific region should be concerned over the threat of natural disasters, said Margareta Wahlström, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, who is visiting Tonga. "The awareness level is high but it is the action that counts and what happens next. The major challenge is how to quickly get the understanding fully enforced into the society so it could become more resilient, better informed and thinks long term," she said. By Linny Folau
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