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Tuesday 9 February 2010
New Zealand
Oxfam New Zealand’s Executive Director Barry Coates said a new report published ahead of the Pacific conference on the global economic recession, Vanuatu February 10-12, highlighted the fact that economic growth in the Pacific had not always led to improvements in people’s lives and reductions in poverty.
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Friday 5 February 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A three-days Pacific Regional Workshop on Communication and Good Governance was officially opened in Nuku'alofa on February 2 by Tonga's Minister of Information and Communication, Mrs 'Eseta Fusitu'a, who shared an anecdote about how foreign media asked her "irritating" questions.
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Friday 18 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
The German Government will commit another 10 million euros to climate change programmes in Pacific countries, it was announced in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Monday 30 November 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga is ranked number 99 in the Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index published in Berlin on November 17.
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Thursday 26 November 2009
Canberra, Australia
To address the pay equity gap in Australia for women a new report by the House of Representatives Employment and Workplace Relations Committee has recommended a raft of amendments to the Fair Work Act and Sex Discrimination Act.
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Monday 2 November 2009
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has erased his own credibility with 'delusional' notions that Fiji has a free media, says regional media watchdog Pacific Freedom Forum.
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Thursday 22 October 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 2009 Pasifiki Trade Fair is back and opened in Nuku‘alofa today promoting 88 booths of various goods and services exhibited by local and overseas participation under a them "Niu Trade Beyond Our Shores".
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Friday 16 October 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's economy and those of its neighbouring Pacific countries grew by less than 2% in 2008, compared to a 5.1 % growth rate of the region combined.
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Wednesday 14 October 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Maximising impacts of Regional Programmes at National Level is the theme of the 6th Conference of the Pacific Community that was opened in Nuku‘alofa on October 12.
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Thursday 8 October 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Prince Tungi headed a seven-member Tongan delegation in a brief visit to Samoa and American Samoa yesterday, Wednesday October 7 to convey the condolences of Tonga's king and people to the leaders and the people of Samoa and American Samoa for the loss of many lives following last week's tsunami.
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Friday 18 September 2009
Suva, Fiji
International Right to Know Day was established by access to information advocates from around the globe. It was first celebrated on 28 September 2003, and 2009 will see the 7th International Right to Know Day. The aim of Right to Know Day is to raise awareness of every individual's right of access to government-held information: the right to know how elected officials are exercising power and how the tax-payers' money is being spent.
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Tuesday 8 September 2009
Auckland, New Zealand
Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth on September 1 was a dead certainty. Its earlier suspension from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum didn't deter it and it would have been naïve to think that the threat of this week's - it's third from the Commonwealth since independence - would make the Fijian administration change its mind. By Dev Nadkarni
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Tuesday 8 September 2009
London, UK
Sir paul Reeves, Special Representative of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, will arrive in Fiji on 8 September for a two-day visit.
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Sunday 16 August 2009
Cairns,Australia
Last week's Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders' summit, held in the northern Australian city of Cairns, saw the Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd move to extend its control over the regional body. Despite earlier statements from a number of Pacific governments expressing disquiet over Canberra's stance on issues including Fiji, climate change, and regional trade, every PIF member state toed the line and signed the final summit communiqué drafted by the Australian government. -By Frank Gaglioti
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Friday 14 August 2009
London, UK
In response to the Secretary General's communication to the Interim Prime Minister of Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama, conveying the Concluding Statement of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) following its Extraordinary Meeting on 31 July 2009, the Interim Government of Fiji Islands invited a delegation from the Commonwealth to visit the country.
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Thursday 13 August 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Civil society leaders from around the South Pacific region met in Nuku'alofa on August 12-13 to try an ensure that the views of the Pacific's Civil Societies are heard in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November.
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Wednesday 12 August 2009
Melbourne, Australia
Australia and New Zealand have offered to buy a new ferry for Tonga after last week's disaster in which 93 people are feared drowned.
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Wednesday 5 August 2009
Cairns, Australia
The possible launch of trade negotiations by Prime Minister John Key and the other Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum, beginning today in Cairns, must not plunge Pacific people already hit by the economic crisis, food crisis and climate change further into poverty, says international aid agency Oxfam.
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Wednesday 5 August 2009
Queensland, Australia
Pacific Greenpeace activists have shut down Abbott Point coal export terminal in Queensland to demand Kevin Rudd stops risking the future of Pacific Islands by undermining real action on climate change and expanding Australia's coal industry.
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Friday 31 July 2009
Port Vila, Vanuatu
The PINA Pacific Media Pacific Summit 2009 got off to a shaky start at Port Vila Vanuatu this week. On the opening day of the Pacific Islands News Association's meeting on July 27, Port Vila was shaken by a 6.2 earthquake. Then after lunch, the Fiji issue where government censors are placed in news rooms caused an uproar.
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