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Pasifika Sipoti - preview of weekend sports
A preview of weekend sport, including OFC Men's Champions League, rugby league, Super Rugby and beach volleyball.
Updated at 5:27 pm on 10 May 2024
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Samoa's TV3 closes channel and goes fully online
In a first of its kind in Samoa, Apia Broadcasting channel TV3 is moving its station completely online because it can no longer afford to broadcast traditionally.
Updated at 4:33 pm on 10 May 2024
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Fiji's Coca-Cola Games will consider dropping branding for 50th edition in 2025
The director of Fiji's biggest sporting event says it will drop the name and branding of Coca-Cola for next year's 50th anniversary if it can find a new sponsor.
Updated at 2:21 pm on 10 May 2024
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Tuvalu to launch information campaign on treaty with Australia due to misinformation
The Tuvalu government is expected to launch an educational programme on its Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty.
Updated at 1:15 pm on 10 May 2024
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Pacific news in brief for May 10
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a band teacher pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.
Updated at 10:37 am on 10 May 2024
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Explainer: What Frank Bainimarama's jail sentence could mean for Fiji politics?
The former Fiji prime minister was handed a one-year jail sentence in the Fiji High Court on Thursday for perverting the course of justice.
Updated at 6:14 pm on 9 May 2024
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Vanuatu govt considers placing Air Vanuatu into voluntary administration
The Vanuatu government is considering placing Air Vanuatu, the national carrier of Vanuatu, into voluntary administration.
Updated at 5:11 pm on 9 May 2024
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New Caledonia’s French constitutional amendment: green light in Paris, red light in Nouméa
Analysis - On Tuesday, the French National Assembly (Lower House) law committee was debating the value of the proposed constitutional amendment to alter the rules of eligibility to vote at local provincial elections.
Updated at 4:57 pm on 9 May 2024
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Super Rugby Pacific: D-Day matches for Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika
The Cultural Round is the telling round for both teams as far as their hopes of making it into the knockout stages is concerned. Losing will ruin their plans.
Updated at 4:30 pm on 9 May 2024
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Former Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama jailed
Former Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was found guilty over the blocking of a police investigation in 2021.
Updated at 3:26 pm on 9 May 2024
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Sailing meets science in new Pacific data-gathering project
"We now have the capacity, the ability, to capture this e-DNA from a few litres of seawater."
Updated at 2:40 pm on 9 May 2024
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High Court to decide fate of ex-Fiji PM Bainimarama and suspended police chief Qiliho
The fate of former Fiji prime minister Frank Bainimarama and suspended police commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho will be known today.
Updated at 11:51 am on 9 May 2024
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Pacific Language Week: PNG tok pisin and Solomon Islands pidgin join series
The Pacific Language Week series begins on Sunday with Rotuma starting the initiative driven by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.
Updated at 9:30 am on 9 May 2024
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PNG population growth is a 'time bomb', warns professor
A professor at the Papua New Guinea School of Medicine says the country's population growth is a "time bomb".
Updated at 9:07 am on 9 May 2024
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'Completely stupid' - ex-Tuvalu PM on NZ's Shane Jones' oil and gas comments
A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government's oil and gas plans show it is concerned about its economy, he is more concerned about the livelihoods and survival of the Tuvalu people.
Updated at 6:24 am on 9 May 2024
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Cricket: Barramundis 'feeling good' ahead of Men's T20 World Cup
Papua New Guinea Barramundis captain, Assadollah Vala, is confident the team will perform to expectations at the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Updated at 3:45 pm on 8 May 2024
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UN wants international backing to curb PNG violence
The United Nations is seeking more international assistance as it strives to help Papua New Guinea overcome the violence that frequently erupts in the country.
Updated at 3:00 pm on 8 May 2024
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New bout of dreams for Niue boxer after Paris knockout
A Niuean boxer based in Aotearoa New Zealand, Duken Holo Tutakitoa-Williams, is heading to Russia to compete in the 2024 World Friendship Games
Updated at 12:39 pm on 8 May 2024
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Kiwi teenager dies in sleep while on vacation in the Cook Islands
The 15-year-old's family is now preparing to repatriate his body back to their home in Hastings, but they have only managed to fund half the amount needed for repatriation.
Updated at 11:54 am on 8 May 2024
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Solomon Islands – an incumbent’s defeat and resurrection
Opinion - Most countries in the Oceania region recognise Beijing and welcome Chinese aid, but no other Pacific state has become so dependent on China as Solomon Islands.
Updated at 10:48 am on 8 May 2024
