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| UpdatedThe University of Technology in Lae has suspended its Student Representative Council because the university's board believes it should take responsibility for its part in the violence during last year's anti-government student protests.
Topics: university-and-further-education, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA New Zealand company is still waiting to be paid by the Papua New Guinea Government for consultancy work it did three years ago, and a year after the courts ordered the government to settle its debt.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, pacific, papua-new-guinea, new-zealand
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| UpdatedCould 2017 be a break out year for the undisputed queen of the track in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea's Toea Wisil?
Topics: athletics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment for his retirement from a businessman applying for a broadcasting licence.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, pacific, asia, china
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| UpdatedA motion of no confidence could be voted on in Tongan parliament as early as tomorrow.
Topics: parliament, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedPNG's foreign exchange crisis has caused an unexpected boom for part of the country's struggling manufacturing sector - the production of saveloys.
Topics: food-and-beverage, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedNew research in American Samoa has uncovered potentially dangerous new about a debilitating disease which could be the next mosquito borne global epidemic.
Topics: ross-river-fever, pacific, american-samoa
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As Christchurch remembers the devastating earthquake six years ago, we look at some of the inspiring and fascinating art popping up around the city.
Topics: contemporary-art, earthquake, new-zealand, pacific
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| UpdatedThe first PNG footballer to sign a professional contract since the 1990s has made an impressive beginning, scoring twice in his first two starting appearances for Penang in the Malaysian Super League.
Topics: soccer, pacific, papua-new-guinea, malaysia
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| UpdatedIt's semi-finals day at the OFC under 17 championship in Tahiti, with Solomon Islands taking on New Caledonia and New Zealand will be up against Papua New Guinea.
Topics: soccer, pacific, french-polynesia, solomon-islands, new-caledonia, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedLandowners in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province say logging is still going on around their villages, long after the logging companies' leases were supposed to have been cancelled.
Topics: conservation, forests, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThere's concern in Vanuatu about the impact of brothels servicing foreign workers on Tanna.
Topics: prostitution, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedThe Fijian lawyer acting for an Iranian refugee who fled from Papua New Guinea to Fiji only to be deported by immigration officers, says the fight to help his client is by no means over.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, refugees, pacific, papua-new-guinea, fiji
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| UpdatedThe PNG Health Department says it will follow up the supply shortage at Port Moresby General Hospital where the head of emergency is under fire after making a public appeal for medical supplies on social media.
Topics: health, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A lawyer for a man who fled Iran seeking asylum and is now in Papua New Guinea tells Beverley O'Connor his client is effectively "stateless".
Topics: refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea, fiji, iran-islamic-republic-of, pacific
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| UpdatedPort Moresby's Water Supplier Eda Ranu says its water supply to the city remains normal and has not been affected by closure of the Sirinumu dam valves.
Topics: water-supply, water-management, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPossible disciplinary action against a senior doctor at Port Moresby General Hospital for making a public appeal for basic medical supplies has angered the head of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe high social cost of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea is well known but the economic impact, and in particular the cost to businesses, is less clear.
Topics: women, domestic-violence, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe final report into the crash of a light aircraft that killed twelve people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province last year has found that weight distribution was the main contributing factor.
Topics: air-transport, air-and-space, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedEfforts to establish a private dialysis facility in Tonga are being supported by a senior Papua New Guinea medical administrator.
Topics: liver-and-kidneys, pacific, tonga, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe NGO Coalition for Human Rights in Fiji is calling for an independent investigation into the death of an 18 year-old youth in police custody.
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| UpdatedNew ground has been broken in a small Micronesian state in the Western Pacific, where not one, but two female candidates will be running for state election.
Topics: elections, women, pacific, micronesia-federated-states-of
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| UpdatedAustralian National University researcher Myjolynne Kim is writing a PhD thesis on the role of women in Chuuk culture.
Topics: women, pacific, micronesia-federated-states-of
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| UpdatedThe Lae Snax Tigers have made a triumphant return to Papua New Guinea, after retaining the Melanesian Rugby League Cup for their country with a thumping win over Fiji's Nadi Aviators in Sigatoka by 40 points to 4.
Topics: rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedAt the World Cricket League qualifying tournament in the Australian city of Bendigo, the favourites Vanuatu have recorded another emphatic win, this time over the Philippines.