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Switching from a five-bed emergency department to a 27 was an eye-opener for a Rarotongan doctor and registered nurse duo who recently spent two weeks working at Whangarei Hospital. ....
Scoop 2015-03-19(Source. The University of Waikato). The University of Waikato has a presence at this year's ASB Polyfest - the largest Polynesian Festival in the world which sees secondary school students compete in a number of cultural performances ... Students compete on five stages, delivering traditional Cook Island, Māori, Niue, Samoan and Tongan performances to name a few ... distributed by ... (noodl....
noodls 2015-03-18Follow LeagueHQ on Twitter Play Ultimate League NRL Team of the Week - Round 2 Round 3 previews NRL Power Rankings - Round 2 ... The reports better be wrong. Wanted man. Semi Radradra of the Eels. Photo ... In other words, we might have Fiji v Tonga in Sydney or even Nadi on Friday night, England v France in the early hours of the next morning, Australian time, Samoa v Cook Islands in Auckland Saturday night and then Origin Sunday night ... ------....
Canberra Times 2015-03-18Our islands are flat…the highest building is only three stories ... Tai Tura Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of the Cook Islands said Government surpluses were devoted to disaster resilience. The Government also devoted resources to mitigate the risks of disaster posed to the tourism industry, which was the Cook Islands' man source of income....
United Nations 2015-03-17(Source. UTS - University of Technology, Sydney) ... Netball Australia has spent three years promoting the sport to girls as young as six and women into their 50s in Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea through its Pacific Netball Partnership ... I communicate more ... Player, Vanuatu ... Coach and administrator, Cook Islands ... Earlier funding, for 2011-2014, allowed the project to run in the Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea....
noodls 2015-03-17... shelter and medical care. It can also affect whether, and how quickly, people can return home and rebuild. But bandaid solutions like this are not enough. As the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands told the Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, "if we fail to plan, we plan to fail". ....
Canberra Times 2015-03-17(Source ... Five jurisdictions - Aruba, Cook Islands, Hungary, Portugal and Uruguay - received an overall rating of "Largely Compliant." Curaçao was rated "Partially Compliant." ... A supplementary review of Marshall Islands has been launched in February 2015, to assess changes to its legal framework since a 2012 Phase 1 review, in order to comply with the international standard ... distributed by ... (noodl. 27336078) ....
noodls 2015-03-17... and medical care. It can also affect whether, and how quickly, people can return home and rebuild. But bandaid solutions like this are not enough. As the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands told the Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, "if we fail to plan, we plan to fail". Advertisement....
noodls 2015-03-16Ask any of the boys sifting round the Pacific Sharks clubrooms on signup day what they want to be when they grow up. A grin comes first. Then they take a big breath like they are about to run and jump. I wanna be a leaaague super staaaar!. League is the golden ticket ... It's common to be related to someone who has "made it" in rugby league ... He is the first Maori/Cook Island principal in a school with a majority of Maori/Cook Island students....
Stuff 2015-03-14... Clark to the Cook Islands to commemorate the 100 year relationship between the two countries, and the signing of the Joint Centenary Declaration. The exhibition is a collaboration between Parliamentary Service and Pataka Art + Museum, the Cook Islands High Commission and the Cook Islands Community in Wellington, with support from Te Papa Tongarewa....
noodls 2015-03-13... the largest and most populous island in the sprawling South Pacific archipelago known as the Cook Islands....
National Geographic News 2015-03-13You have a remote Pacific island with a few thousand inhabitants ... Another island didn't tap into more than one sixth of the theoretically available bandwidth ... Thanks go to Telecom Cook Islands, Internet Niue, Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation, MIT and, close to home, to the IT operations people at the University of Auckland for putting up with a whole string of extremely unusual requests!]....
noodls 2015-03-13Blow up. Jack Wighton and Sosaia Feki get up close and personal in round one. Photo. Getty Images. Follow LeagueHQ on Twitter Play Ultimate League NRL 2015 Team by team preview Quiz. How many 70s footy stars can you name. Masterclass edition ... ... Australia, Cook Islands, England, France, Fiji, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, South Africa, Tonga, United States, Vanuatu and Wales ... ....
Canberra Times 2015-03-13The Cook Islands (i/ˈkʊk ˈaɪləndz/; Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand. The 15 small islands have a total land area of 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi), but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) of ocean.
The main population centres are on the island of Rarotonga (14,153 in 2006), where there is an international airport. There is a much larger population of Cook Islanders in New Zealand, particularly the North Island. In the 2006 census, 58,008 self-identified as being of ethnic Cook Island Māori descent.
With about 100,000 visitors travelling to the islands in the 2010-11 financial year,tourism is the country's main industry, and the leading element of the economy, far ahead of offshore banking, pearls, and marine and fruit exports.
Defence and foreign affairs are the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation with the Cook Islands. In recent times, the Cook Islands have adopted an increasingly independent foreign policy. Although Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand, they have the status of Cook Islands nationals, which is not given to other New Zealand citizens.