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| UpdatedChiefs in Vanuatu are struggling with changing social attitudes such as what it's appropriate for women to wear in the village.
Topics: national-days, women, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedHoniara's National Referral Hospital has welcomed the donation of a machine that allows doctors to perform keyhole surgery.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedFor the third time this season the reigning champions Fiji have been beaten by South Africa in a World Rugby Sevens tournament final, going down by 19 points to 12 in Las Vegas.
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| UpdatedProposed new bylaws affecting people living in traditional iTaukei villages in Fiji may be at odds with the country's Bill of Rights.
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| UpdatedThe French and Australian foreign ministers have this week announced details of an enhanced cooperation deal.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, pacific, france, australia
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| UpdatedWomen in PNG are increasingly working in roles that were once dominated by men but many employers have not kept up with the pace of change, particularly when it comes to workplace safety.
Topics: women, workplace, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe PNG Hunters have made the perfect start to their Intrust Super Cup season with a 22-16 win over Central Queensland Capras in Rockhampton.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea, australia
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| UpdatedAn economist specialising in Papua New Guinea says the International Monetary Fund's latest report on the health of the PNG economy shows glaring discrepancies between what the independent upmire says is happening and what the government says.
Topics: economic-trends, budget, government-and-politics, international-financial-institutions, pacific
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| UpdatedThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its El Nino outlook to watch status, meaning there's a 50 per cent chance that there will be an El NiƱo event this year.
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| UpdatedThe Governor of Papua New Guinea's Hela province has appealed for Australian Federal Police to help end the lawlessness in the province, which he says has reached crisis point.
Topics: police, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe medical clinic at Australia's detention centre on Manus Island may be shut down because its operator did not comply with medical registration laws, Papua New Guinea's Government says.
Topics: immigration, refugees, health, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedA group of Pacific nations has drawn the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council to what it says is the "grave situation" in West Papua.
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| UpdatedThe Solomon Islands government has endorsed the concept of strata title for land and housing ownership as a way of tackling the housing problem, especially in the capital Honiara.
Topics: community-and-society, housing-industry, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedOne of the Tongan noble MPs who voted against the government in a vote of no confidence this week believes some MPs supported the government because they wanted to stay in power.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedA bizarre story surfaced in the Pacific earlier this year when a Russian monarchist tried to coax the Kiribati government into buying three of the country's islands to establish a revived Romanov empire.
Topics: pacific, russian-federation, kiribati
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| UpdatedDrinking kava to relax and sometimes to resolve conflicts is a longstanding custom in much of the Pacific.
Topics: pacific, united-states, fiji, vanuatu
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| UpdatedRugby 7s fever is set to hit the United States this weekend, as all eyes turn to Las Vegas for the next stage of the World Series.
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| UpdatedThe opening round of the Queensland Cup is sure to be a tricky test for the PNG Hunters who will take the long trip to Rockhampton to play the Central Queensland Capras.
Topics: queensland-cup, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A group of seven Pacific island nations is calling on the United Nations to investigate allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region, also known as West Papua.
Topics: world-politics, human, rights, land-rights, indonesia, vanuatu, tonga, nauru, palau, tuvalu, marshall-islands, solomon-islands, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedThe governor of Papua New Guinea's Hela province is calling for an Australian Federal Police intervention to quell an outbreak of lawlessness he says has reached crisis point.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea, australia, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedPolice in Solomon Islands have arrested scores of people after an attack on a logging camp in Western Province.
Topics: forestry, environment, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedThe chairman of Transparency International PNG has rejected the comments made by the ABC's managing director defending the Corporation's decision to turn off its shortwave radio service to the Pacific and northern Australia.
Topics: broadcasting, radio-broadcasting, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Nauru government is being urged to save more money into a recently established trust fund so future generations share in the tiny nation's current economic boom.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, pacific, nauru
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| UpdatedTonga is to host a conference on whales in the Pacific next month, focusing on emerging threats to the mammals with the findings to be taken to a major United Nations conference later in the year.
Topics: environment, whaling, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedPNG's Telecommunication Workers Union is poised to hold a nationwide strike action against the government over plans to merge three state-owned communication companies.
Topics: telecommunications, pacific, papua-new-guinea