Results for Pacific Islands

The New Zealand government is willing to help Tonga resolve its long-running public sector strike, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Phil Goff said.

Tongans burned their national flag and smashed a lock to the gates of their King's Auckland residence on Friday in support of a widespread public service strike in their homeland.

Sixteen soldiers in Western Australia's far north have been injured after their armoured personnel carrier rolled during a training exercise.

Pacific people given residence in New Zealand under the Samoan Quota (SQ) and Pacific Access Category (PAC) policies are a welcome addition to New Zealand...’s workforce and community, Department of Labour Deputy Secretary, Workforce, Mary Anne Thompson said today.

All you need is Love, may sound old fashioned but it could easily be the theme for a global gathering that is to be held in New York this week, attended by a Pacific delegation.

Tonga's leadership is committed to progress but Tonga faces hard choices for the future, and the real question is, "whether the People of Tonga will rise to the challenge and ride this wave of progress," said the British High Commissioner to Tonga, Mr Paul Nessling, on June 9.

In Tonga's case the consultative meetings held this week in Nuku'alofa were poorly attended by the private sector, and participants had difficulty grasping the complexity of the trade negotiations. Meanwhile, the Forum's selection of Tonga's negotiators and representatives to some of the consultative committees was not clear.

Forum Secretary General, Greg Urwin, has again expressed concern about shipments of radioactive materials which transit through parts of the Pacific region.

A Fijian journalist, Vasiti Valatia Ritova, 41, of the Pacific Island News Association news service, Pacnews was named the Island Journalist of the Year last night, at a ceremony held in the Foreign Correspondents...’ Club of Japan, Tokyo.