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From Christmas chalets to Hip-Hop legends: 75+ epic ways to spend your week in Canberra
HerCanberra
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June 29, 2025
Posted on 30 June, 2025 Whether you’re craving high culture with opera reductions and contemporary art exhibitions, or just want to lose yourself in the darkness at No Lights No Lycra, this week’s incredible lineup of 75+ events proves that...
PACIFIC JOURNOS MEET CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, PRAISE CHINA
Solomon Star
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June 29, 2025
Beijing, China – SIX Pacific Islands journalists met with the Director of the Pacific Island Division, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry on Foreign Affairs, Gu Xinqiang in Beijing and exchanged views within...
Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai “Tarsh” Kemp moved to burial ground
Whanganui Chronicle
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“It’s been massive. Not one bad thing has come out of someone’s mouth about my mum,” he said, adding that her biggest priorities were whānau and rangatahi [young people]. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi said it was the resilience of small...
Watch live: Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp to be laid to rest today
Newstalk ZB
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June 30, 2025
Hundreds of people are expected to gather in Taihape today to farewell Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp who died last week, aged 50, following a battle with kidney disease. A Rātana service will be held at Ōpaea Marae around 11am before...
Marine tourism guidelines introduced
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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June 17, 2025
Tonga launches eco‑tourism guidelines to help communities profit while safeguarding marine life. Tonga has introduced its Guidelines for the Development of Eco‑Tourism Activities Supporting Marine Resource Areas, officially rolled out in Vava‘u...
What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
Climate Home News
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June 17, 2025
The 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change famously does not name the controversial root cause of the very problem it is intended to solve: fossil fuels. In the year of its 10th anniversary, Gillian Cooper, political director of the Fossil...
World Bank slashes Pacific growth forecast
FBC News
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The World Bank is projecting regional growth to fall to 2.6 percent this year, down from 5.5 percent in 2023. In a report of an economic update, it says that economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth,...
Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
Odisha Diary
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA, June 17, 2025 — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released today in Honiara, projects...
Slowing growth faces Pacific, need for more inclusive workforce highlighted
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released on Tuesday in Honiara, projects regional growth...
Watch: 'We will miss her' – MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp to be laid to rest today
Bay of Plenty Times
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Hundreds of people are expected to gather in Taihape today to farewell Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp who died last week, aged 50, following a battle with kidney disease. A Rātana service will be held at Ōpaea Marae around 11am before...
Pacific news in brief for 24 June
RNZ
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June 23, 2025
Photo: SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Tonga - dengue Six new cases of dengue fever have been reported in Tonga, bringing the total to 879 as of Monday. More than half of the confirmed cases are on the main island, Tongatapu. One person is in...
Learner driver materials set to be translated into Pacific languages - NZTA
Pacific Media Network
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Learning resources for obtaining a driver's licence in Aotearoa New Zealand will soon be available in the Vosa-Vakaviti Fijian, Gagana Sāmoa, and Faka Tonga languages. Community Licensing Officer at the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) Waka...
7 New Directions For WWE After Night Of Champions 2025
WhatCulture
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June 29, 2025
WWE.comWWE's Night Of Champions 2025 is in the history books, and attentions will quickly turn to Saturday Night's Main Event for Goldberg's last hurrah on 12 July, the all-female Evolution PLE on 13 July, and then towards a double helping of...
UN space committee commends growing global south participation in outer space
JURIST
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June 21, 2025
The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) reported on Saturday a transition towards more inclusive global participation in outer space activities, with the growing involvement of Global South countries, such as Ghana, Maldives,...
Why the 'aggro-factor' is the Lions' secret weapon - and how one star's versatility is already bearing fruit: CHRIS FOY on tour with the Lions
Daily Mail
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June 29, 2025
One game into the Lions’ Australian odyssey and it’s all simmering nicely. Good. Here’s to the aggro, the hostility, the edge and the niggle, in every conceivable form. It’s all part of the tour tradition. It became a mismatch on Saturday in...
Reframing the French Indo-Pacific: Wallis and Futuna: Of Monarchies, Catholicism… and Rugby
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
As Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his visits to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore – where he delivered the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue at the end of May – the French president reaffirmed the Indo-Pacific’s strategic importance for both...
Más de un tercio de la población de este país ha solicitado reubicarse
KVIA - Texas
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June 27, 2025
Por Angus Watson, CNN Más de un tercio de la población de Tuvalu ha solicitado mudarse a Australia bajo un programa de visas histórico diseñado para ayudar a las personas a escapar del aumento del nivel del mar. La nación insular, ubicada...
Winter just became Canberra’s hottest season: 140+ events to warm your July
HerCanberra
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June 25, 2025
Posted on 26 June, 2025 Who says July has to be about staying indoors? Canberra is serving up serious winter magic this month with over 140 events that’ll make you forget all about hibernation mode. From Christmas in July magic and Winter in the...
Dmakeiukl Rangers begin drone training to strengthen conservation efforts in Palau
Island Times
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June 20, 2025
On June 6, rangers from the Dmakeiukl Alliance took part in a hands-on drone training to enhance the monitoring and protection of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in Palau. The training is part of a broader effort to strengthen the rangers’...
From the Global South to the stars: expanding access to outer space
UN News
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June 21, 2025
The feats of the long-established spacefaring nations – particularly the US – may still dominate headlines, but countries as diverse as Zimbabwe, Honduras and Malta are signalling their intention to reap the benefits of space-related activities....