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| UpdatedA hip-hop artist in Papua New Guinea has become a social media sensation following the release of his recent 'Bootylicious' music video.
Topics: music, feminism, women, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea has launched a vaccination program to prevent cervical cancer.
Topics: cervical-and-vulval-cancers, vaccines-and-immunity, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe emergence of the borer beetle in two of Papua New Guinea's highlands provinces has the potential to devastate the country's coffee industry, jeopardising the main cash crop there.
Topics: agricultural-crops, tea-coffee, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedTongan Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, is defending his call for the national Broadcasting Commission to be closed down or sold off.
Topics: government-and-politics, media, journalism, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedThe emergence of the borer beetle in two of Papua New Guinea's highlands provinces has the potential to devastate the country's coffee industry, jeopardising the main cash crop there.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, pacific, new-caledonia
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| UpdatedThere are renewed calls for the Papua New Guinea currency, the kina, to be devalued by up to 20 per cent.
Topics: currency, money-and-monetary-policy, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe General Hospital in Port Moresby has taken delivery of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, the first of its kind in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: health, science-and-technology, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedExasperated residents in Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, have taken to social media to organise a cleanup at the National Referral Hospital where the frontage has been overwhelmed with rubbish and weeds.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedThe Fiji Warriors head into the final round of the World Rugby Pacific Challenge tomorrow in pole position to retain their title.
Topics: sport, rugby-union, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG Hunters are on the road again this weekend as they take on Souths Logan Magpies in round three of the Intrust Super Cup.
Topics: rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea cricket team are on their way to the Middle East for a month long tour that will feature warm up games against some of England's top first class players, ahead of a series against the United Arab Emirates in the World Cricket League and the four-day Intercontinental Cup.
Topics: cricket, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedFor the first time in its history, Chuuk province of the Federated States of Micronesia will have a woman in the state senate.
Topics: government-and-politics, women, pacific, micronesia-federated-states-of
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| UpdatedProposed changes to the Law Governing Political Parties in Papua New Guinea may not be passed this year.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, political-parties, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA dispute over land ownership has forced Solomon Islands national airline to suspend its domestic service to the easternmost province of Temotu.
Topics: air-transport, land-rights, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedA New Zealand Samoan academic is calling for strong action to be taken to curb the financial impost on members of the Samoan community.
Topics: money-and-monetary-policy, pacific, new-zealand, samoa
Posted
| UpdatedTonga's sacked former Finance Minister has been asked to help prepare the national budget as a consultant.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedAnother ni-Vanuatu seasonal worker has gone missing in Australia - joining four others who walked away from their jobs in February.
Topics: work, immigration, pacific, australia, vanuatu
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| UpdatedAfter days of speculation, the government yesterday confirmed an outbreak of the borer - that jeopardises the main cash crop for millions of highlanders.
Topics: agricultural-crops, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedIn the lead-up to Papua New Guinea's national election later this year, researchers have launched a database in Port Moresby that paints a picture of voting trends over the past 30 years.
Topics: elections, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThere are concerns that a reported outbreak of tuberculosis near Alotau in Papua New Guinea could spread due to poor health facilities.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedA wall in Darwin that was adorned with a controversial street art mural promoting solidarity with the Free West Papua movement is now blank after it was painted over by contractors.
Topics: pacific, papua-new-guinea, papua
Posted
| UpdatedAn attack on a Fiji Broadcasting Corporation reporter outside a courthouse in Suva has been condemned by the Fiji Media Association.
Topics: television-broadcasting, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedFiji has opted not to run for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Posted
| UpdatedThe draw's been made for the group stages of the FIFA Under 20 World Cup in South Korea in May, and debutants Vanuatu are facing a monumental task up against Mexico, Venezuela and Germany in Group B.
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| UpdatedThe young Samoan rugby sevens star, Phoenix Hunapo-Nofoa, is still waiting for visa clearance before he can make the switch to rugby league in England, where he has signed for Bradford Bulls.
Topics: rugby-league, pacific, samoa, england