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| UpdatedAn American woman serving time in Kerobokan prison for killing her own mother has been forced to give over custody of her daughter under an Indonesian law mandating children be cared for outside of prison once they turn two years old.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, family-and-children, indonesia, pacific, asia, australia
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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
Posted
| 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
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| 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
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| UpdatedBritish company Noble Caledonia incurs the wrath of the Indonesian Government after its ship MV Caledonian Sky hit a prized coral reef causing irreparable damage.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-health, international-law, indonesia, asia, pacific, united-kingdom
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
Posted
| 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
Posted
| 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
Posted
| 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
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| UpdatedFiji has opted not to run for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council.