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On Friday May 6, five large marine turtles were bought from a local fisherman by a group of conservationists.

Sea levels could rise up to 5 feet by the end of this century, according to the International Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program AMAP. This is two and a half times higher than the 2007 projection by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. _ IGSD.

The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) will meet in London on Thursday April 28. The Group will discuss Fiji, which is currently suspended from the Commonwealth. - CMAG.

With more than 680 million people in Asia and the Pacific region continuing to live on less than US$1.25 a day, “There remains an urgent need to invest more and better in agriculture and rural areas in developing countries, based on a new approach to smallholder agriculture that is both market-oriented and sustainable,” says IFAD's Thomas Elhaut in a new report that looks at how investment by governments in agriculture contributes substantially to GDP growth and poverty reduction.

Some 2.6 million stillbirths occurred worldwide in 2009, according to the first comprehensive set of estimates published today in a special series of The Lancet medical journal. - WHO.

The ADB Board of Directors recently approved a technical assistance of around $12.4 million under the Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Pacific (Phase 2) to help consumers use power more efficiently in the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. - ADB.

Pacific Energy Ministers have endorsed the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific (FAESP) and its associated implementation plan. They approved the framework and implementation plan at a special session of the inaugural joint Regional Meeting of Ministers for Energy, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Transport at the SPC headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia. - SPC.

China still regards the details of its aid program as a state secret. The latest Lowy Institute policy brief provides a window into its opaque program, by reporting figures provided by individual recipient governments in the Pacific. The report gives China's aid program a mixed score.- Fergus Hanson and Mary Fifita.

The premiere of the new independent Tongan film, My Lost Kainga, will be at the Dream Centre, 3 Lakewood Court in Manukau City on April 8th 2011, at 7pm – doors open at 6pm. - My Lost Kainga.