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Stronger ties benefit Pacific island nations
China Daily Global
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Fijian students try their hands at Chinese calligraphy on April 15 during an event celebrating the United Nations Chinese Language Day, which falls on April 20, in Suva, the capital of the Pacific island country. GAO XIN/XINHUA This summer, Basi...
PM Rabuka to skip Pacific Foreign Ministers meet today
The Fiji Times
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka will not attend todays Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Suva. The Pacific Islands Forum has confirmed Fiji will be represented by Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Special Envoy of the...
India, Fiji Discuss Bilateral Ties And Ways To Strengthen Cooperation
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Suva, July 30 (IANS) India and Fiji held the 6th Foreign Office Consultations in Suva on Tuesday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in health, education, capacity building, trade, investment, agriculture,...
Council-backed venue brings Pacific-led show to Central Auckland
Pacific Media Network
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Auckland Council is bringing Pacific-led theatre to the heart of the city by funding the venue for Tafatolu, a new 50-minute play blending Sāmoan mythology, live music, and physical theatre. The production has not received direct council funding,...
Workshops strengthen media literacy in Raro
Cook Island News
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August 12, 2025
Three-person team from Pacific Media Network (PMN) in New Zealand completed a series of media literacy workshops in Rarotonga earlier this month. PMN Cook Islands producer Tauraki Rongo (from left), Pacific Mornings Host William Terite and PMN...
New Zealand government snubs Cook Islands’ 60th anniversary celebration
World Socialist Web Site
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August 12, 2025
In a clear and deliberate diplomatic snub, the New Zealand government boycotted celebrations in the Cook Islands on August 4 marking 60 years of “self-government in free association with New Zealand.” Constitution Day, or Te Maeva Nui, is held...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Honouring the legacy of cultural icon, the late Nancy Kareroa-Yorke
Cook Island News
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August 9, 2025
Nancy Kareroa-Yorke (far left) with some of her students. Next to her is one of her students, who joined the group at the age of seven. The young dancer is now 23 years old. “Her (Nancy's) legacy lives on in her young dancers.” 25080615 A...
With Five Eyes on China, FBI Bulks Up in New Zealand
Consortium News
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August 7, 2025
Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency’s Wellington operation to “counter the CCP” as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific. Demonstrators in Aukland on Saturday protest against the F.B.I. expanding its...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 2025
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Your voice will be heard- opening message at inaugural Pacific
Television Niue
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August 7, 2025
By Gustava Esther Pavihi Thursday 7th August, 2025, Taumeasina– More than twenty young people from across the Pacific are in Samoa this week for the first Pacific Youth Dialogue on Loss and Damage with the theme ‘Providing our Pacific youth with...
Empire In The Antipodes: Why The FBI’s Wellington Office Is A Threat ToAotearoa – Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
The Daily Blog
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August 3, 2025
On 31 July 2025, the FBI officially opened its first standalone office in Aotearoa New Zealand, based in Wellington’s U.S. Embassy. For most of the mainstream media, this development was reported with a mixture of bureaucratic neutrality and mild...
University of Auckland Pathway Supporting Pacific Aspirations
TP+
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August 5, 2025
The third cohort have completed the micro-credential course ‘Improving Wellbeing Outcomes for Pacific Families’. Photo: University of Auckland / Supplied The University of Auckland aims to help grow Pacific leadership through a course supporting...
Caribbean court strikes down St. Lucia’s anti-homosexuality law
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 29, 2025
Ruling in case of Caribbean island leaves 64 nations with anti-gay laws Kenita Placide, executive director of the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) The number of nations with anti-homosexuality laws dropped to 64 today,...
Te Teko’s Zena Elliott claims major NZ art award
Te Ao Maori News
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A Te Teko-raised artist has won a major New Zealand art award. Zena Elliott (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Whānau ā Apānui, Ngāti Rangitihi) — who recalls being raised on fruit from neighbours’ trees and liquorice from the local store in the small...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 25 – July 31, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 2, 2025
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NZ's Youth Parliament erupts as Māori, Pacific MPs unite against race-based scholarships
Pacific Media Network
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In a recent fiery session of Youth Parliament that echoed the tensions of the real political arena, the House was shaken by a speech calling for an end to race-based scholarships. This speech triggered visible protests, cultural assurances, and...
Caribbean nation of St. Lucia strikes down its anti-sodomy law
LifeSite
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July 30, 2025
News St. Lucia joins Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Dominica, which in recent years decriminalized consensual homosexual acts. (LifeSiteNews) — The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court struck down St. Lucia’s colonial-era law...
Vanuatu RSE workers celebrate first-ever Bislama Language Week
RNZ
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July 29, 2025
For the first time, Vanuatu Bislama Language Week is being officially celebrated in New Zealand and for Ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers toiling in the orchards of Pukekohe, they are feeling a sense of pride. The week marks a historic addition to the...
Te Maeva Nui international night showcases heritage and heart from across the islands
Cook Island News
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July 28, 2025
The Kiribati community at Te Maeva Nui international night last Friday. TEITIMOANA TAIRI/25072709 Te Maeva Nui 2025 International Night opened on a high note on Friday, with cultural groups from across the Pacific, based in the Cook Islands,...