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Tuesday 7 July 2009
Rome, Italy
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, (CAC) concluded a week-long meeting and adopted more than 30 new international standards, codes of practice and guidelines to improve worldwide food safety and protect the health of consumers.
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Monday 6 July 2009
Suva, Fiji
The United States recognizes the desire for political reform in Fiji and supports steps that hasten Fiji...’s return to a constitution and free elections.
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Monday 6 July 2009
Madeira, Portugal
A new report released today by the International Fund for Animal Welfare documents massive growth in the global whale watching industry over the past decade. The new report, Whale Watching Worldwide, comes as more than 80 countries debate the future of whaling and whale conservation at the 61st annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Madeira, Portugal.
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Monday 6 July 2009
Madrid, Spain
According to the June edition of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer international tourism declined by 8% between January and April compared to the same period last year.
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Sunday 5 July 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Agreement for the US Remote Visa Processing Project between the Governments of Tonga and the United States of America was signed today by Mr. Busby Kautoke, Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet of the Government of Tonga, and Mr. Scott Gallaway of the US Embassy in Suva. The Agreement governs the operation of the new Office at the Fa‘onelua Convention Centre for the consular and diplomatic purposes of the United States of America.
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Sunday 28 June 2009
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Executive Council of the Tonga Law Society wishes to refer to the recent media reports concerning Mr David Garrett SC, a New Zealand Member of Parliament, and licensed law practitioner in Tonga, making inappropriate sexual comments to a female staff member of the New Zealand Parliament.
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Wednesday 17 June 2009
Manila, Philippines
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Board of Directors has approved the allocation of $3.4 billion in additional funds to help developing member countries (DMCs) respond to the global economic crisis.
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Monday 1 June 2009
Manila, Philippines
Most Pacific economies are continuing to weaken as they suffer the impacts of the Global Financial Crisis, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) publication released today.
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Monday 1 June 2009
Sydney, Australia
American Samoa's member of the US Congress has warned that the "inept policies and heavy-handed actions" of the New Zealand and Australian governments in the Pacific are putting American interests in the region at risk.
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Monday 1 June 2009
Suva, Fiji
The Fiji military regime, in its latest crackdown, has targeted the most influential religious group in the Pacific island nation, ordering the Methodist Church to cancel its annual conference, reports Agence France-Presse.
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Sunday 24 May 2009
Suva, Fiji
The United Nations has declared 22 May the International Day for Biological Diversity. This year's theme is "Alien Invasive Species". These are not species from another planet, but animals, plants and other organisms that are not native to a country or an island but come from somewhere else. In the tropical Pacific region, the list of such alien invaders is long but some of the common ones are rats, ants, mongoose, and weeds like mile-a-minute.
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Monday 11 May 2009
Suva, Fiji
Fijilive journalists Dionisia Turagabeci and Shelvin Chand are spending their second night at the Central Police Station in Suva, for allegedly contravening the Public Emergency Regulations, reports the blog Coupfourpointfive.
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Monday 4 May 2009
Washington D.C., U.S.A
Journalists' faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study. The rollback was not confined to traditionally authoritarian states; with Israel, Italy and Hong Kong slipping from the study's Free category to Partly Free status.
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Monday 4 May 2009
Suva, Fiji
Fiji was suspended from the 16 nation Pacific Islands Forum Saturday and told there was no place for a regime which displays "such a total disregard for basic human rights."
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Thursday 30 April 2009
Wellington, New Zealand
Well, well, well.... so Labour now thinks that Maori should have the right to seek customary title to the foreshore and seabed do they? That Maori should be allowed to argue their case before the Maori Land Court, with right of appeal to the High Court?
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Thursday 30 April 2009
Suva, Fiji
Fiji's military regime says it doesn't believe it will be thrown out of the Pacific Islands Forum, despite stern warmings from members.
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Tuesday 28 April 2009
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea's leading daily newspaper is being subjected to a campaign of litigation and intimidation over reports of government corruption and mismanagement.
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Monday 27 April 2009
New York, USA
A US academic says a lawsuit launched by a PNG man against the New Yorker magazine for US$10 million over a portrayal of him and his tribesmen as "murderers, thieves and rapists" is empowering.
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Monday 27 April 2009
Apia, Samoa
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is disappointed with recent comments made by American Samoa congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin on the situation in Fiji.
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Sunday 26 April 2009
Wellington, New Zealand
Jim Salinger, New Zealand's most prominent climate scientist, has been sacked by the state-owned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) for talking to the media without permission, he said on Friday.
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