New Zealand celebrates 169 years of partnership between its indigenous Maori people and European settlers Friday with relations between the races in a better state than they have been for years. By David Barber
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Friday 6 February 2009
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Wellington, New Zealand
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Wednesday 28 January 2009
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Pacific Islands Forum leaders have given Fiji until May 1 2009 to announce a date for an election to be held no later than December 2009 or face suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum.
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Wednesday 28 January 2009
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Auckland, New Zealand
A Tongan family in New Zealand is mourning the loss of teenager Halatau Naitoko (17), a courier driver, who was accidentally shot dead by a police officer on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway on Friday January 23.
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Tuesday 27 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Australian Day celebration kicked off at the Teufaiva Stadium at mid-day with an exhibition game of Aussie Rules football between Vava'u and Tongatapu Under-17 teams.
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Tuesday 27 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
he Fiji Times publisher Rex Gardener has been ordered by the Fiji Interim Government to leave Fiji this morning, January 27.
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Friday 23 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
The Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in PNG has been deferred.
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Thursday 22 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
The General Voters Party (GVP) is in agreement with Prime Minister Bainimarama in asking that the meeting in Port Moresby on the 27th January 2009 be deferred to a later date because of the great humanitarian crisis being faced by Fiji at this time.
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Monday 19 January 2009
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Port Vila, Vanuatu
The Daily Post publisher Marc Neil- Jones claims he has been assaulted by members of Correctional Services in a nasty incident at the newspaper office on Saturday, January 17 at about 12.45pm that left him with a suspected broken nose, bruised eye and abrasions.
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Friday 16 January 2009
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Manila, Philippines
A partnership of government and international development agencies today announced the establishment of a new advisory center to assist in improving infrastructure and services in Pacific Island nations.
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Friday 16 January 2009
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Manila, Philippines
Following severe floods that have devastated parts of Fiji this week, ADB has expressed deepest sympathy for the people of Fiji who have lost family and friends in the disaster.
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Thursday 15 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Fiji
The Government is donating FD$100,000 towards the victims of the natural disasters in Fiji as a result of heavy rains and flooding which so far has caused 8 deaths and forced at least 6,200 people to seek shelter and food at the 114 evacuation centres that have been established around the country.
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Wednesday 14 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga is not in support of an idea to suspend Fiji's membership from the Pacific Islands Forum, Tonga's Prime Minister Dr Feleti Sevele said this afternoon. By Pesi Fonua
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Tuesday 13 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
The Conservative Alliance Matanitu Vanua Party CAMV condemns any action by the Pcific Forum to suspend Fiji at the meeting in Port Moresby on January 27.
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Tuesday 13 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
The Tongan satirist, writer and university professor Epeli Hau'ofa (70), passed away at the Suva Private Hospital at 7 am on Sunday January 11 after an illness.
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Tuesday 13 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
A State of Emergency in the Western division, 114 evacuation centres, 6,600 evacuees, thousands of homes and families affected, crops damaged, many roads and bridges damaged and no water and power supply in most of the western division.
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Friday 9 January 2009
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Port Vila, Vanuatu
ALAC stands for Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre. It is a new project set up by Transparency Vanuatu. ALAC provides legal advice and assistance to victims and witnesses of corruption. It helps citizens, from the unemployed to entrepreneurs, from public servants to business people, to pursue corruption-related complaints, encouraging them to come forward. ALAC observes strict client confidentiality.
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Friday 9 January 2009
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Washington DC,USA
Today, President Bush designated three areas of the Pacific Ocean as marine national monuments including the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monuments, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument.
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Friday 9 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
There is urgent need for a national Freedom of Information Act quickly, says Transparency International Fiji chairperson, Suliana Siwatibau.
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Wednesday 7 January 2009
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Suva, Fiji
The US Embassy in Suva remains closed after a white powder incident occurred at the embassy last week on Christmas Eve.
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Monday 5 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Six hundred youths from eight Pacific Island countries attended a Seventh Day Adventist Trans Pacific Union Youth Congress at Beulah College, Vaini, Tongatapu from December 30 to January 4.
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