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Pacific governments can improve state owned enterprises
Matangi Tonga Online
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June 25, 2025
Pacific governments can improve the performance of their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and reduce fiscal risks by implementing clearer and more consistent government ownership and oversight arrangements, according to a policy brief published on...
Letter to Prime Minister Carney: Canada's Position on Deep Sea Mining
MiningWatch Canada
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The following letter was sent to Prime Minister Marc Carney by 20 Canadian and international civil society organizations, coalitions, and unions, including MiningWatch Canada. The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada...
Australia's moustachioed maverick NIC WHITE takes Mail Sport to the barbers and talks Peaky Blinders, the Lions tour and his love of Exeter
Daily Mail
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June 26, 2025
Nic White springs out of the barber’s chair, moustache freshly groomed like a Victorian strongman. ‘You’re up next!’ he barks at me, pointing towards the red leather seat. Shaking off any loose hairs, the 5ft 9in scrum-half gives a few...
Pacific News Briefs: Award-Winning Māori Short Film
Samoa News
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June 23, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An award-winning short film, which honors the resilience of Māori youth, has been named a finalist at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Written and directed by Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Porou, Niue,...
Pacific news in brief for 12 June
RNZ
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June 11, 2025
Dr 'Aisake Eke. 27 January 2025 Photo: Facebook / PM Press Tonga - visas Tonga Prime Minister ʻAisake Eke hopes a new Tongan consulate in Fiji will ease visa processing delays. Talanoa O Tonga reported the consulate is set to be opened in January....
Pacific eye clinic offers free vision tests
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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June 24, 2025
A dedicated eye care team from the Pacific Partnership Humanitarian Medical Team is offering complimentary eye examinations and prescription glasses at Vaiola Hospital and Mu’a Health Center. The clinics run daily from 9 am to 4 pm running today...
ADB’s Director General for Pacific in Honiara
Solomon Star
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June 25, 2025
Director General (DG) of the Pacific Department within the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) is on a five-day visit to the Solomons. Emma Veve who was appointed to the position in late February 2025 arrived in Honiara on Monday and has been visiting...
‘Our Ocean is our heritage, our home and our future’
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Copyright: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Monitoring and Governance As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) gets underway in Nice France, Samoa’s Prime...
Trump considering adding another 36 countries to his no travel list including African and Caribbean nations: report
The Independent
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June 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
Government launches first National Security Policy consultations
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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June 23, 2025
The government, through its Ministry of Police, launched consultations yesterday for its inaugural National Security Policy (NSP), aiming to strengthen national resilience and sovereignty. The framework seeks a whole‑of‑government strategy to...
Largo High sprinter Laiana McClinton on the fast track to success
Tampa Bay Newspapers INC - Florida
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LARGO — Few athletes can claim to be both state champion and international inspiration. That Laiana McClinton of Largo has achieved both at just 17 years old makes her rise from curious spectator to Florida’s fastest sprinter all the more...
Drug traffickers targeting Pacific waterways: Oceania Customs
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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June 25, 2025
Pacific nations must urgently strengthen maritime enforcement as criminal networks deliberately exploit geographic vulnerabilities, generating unprecedented trafficking drugs across the region. The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) says detection...
Oral Questions — Questions To Ministers | Sitting Date: 05 June 2025
Scoop
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Friday, 20 June 2025, 2:07 pm Press Release: Hansard Sitting date: 5 June 2025 This page displays you ORAL QUESTIONS QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS Question No. 1—Transport 1. TIM COSTLEY (National—Ōtaki) to the Minister of Transport: What announcements...
Atiu’s Areora Hard Courts reopen for sports
Cook Island News
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June 25, 2025
The newly resurfaced Areora Hard Courts in Atiu are set to be officially opened today, celebrating an important occasion for sports and youth development on the island. Plexipave New Zealand/25062310 The newly resurfaced Areora Hard Courts in Atiu...
Pacific news in brief for 23 June
RNZ
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June 22, 2025
Photo: 123RF Papua New Guinea - health A senior health official in Papua New Guinea is promising action after revelations some nurses are wanting payment for writing referrals for patients. The Post Courier reports claims of such a practice were...
MALASHA CALLS FOR ACTION AS DEFORESTATION SURGES IN CHIKANTA
Zambia Reports
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June 25, 2025
Chikanta Ward Councilor in Kalomo, Aston Malasha, has raised concern over the increased levels of deforestation in the area due to charcoal production. He tells Byta FM News in an interview that indiscriminate cutting down of trees has become...
Macron talks New Caledonia at Pacific-France summit
RNZ
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June 10, 2025
Photo: Screenshot Présidence de la République française French president Emmanuel Macron chaired a Pacific-France summit on Tuesday, in the margins of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) held in Nice. In his opening speech, the French head of state...
The choice facing Māngere families after Auckland anniversary floods
RNZ
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June 24, 2025
Two and a half years have passed since the Auckland Anniversary floods which claimed four lives and impacted thousands more. Much progress has been made to recover from the events of that fateful weekend in January 2023 but many families are still...
The royal women you never knew existed, but should know about
Woman & Home
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June 22, 2025
They wore crowns, carried swords, broke hearts, defied empires, and yet, history barely whispers their names. From warrior queens and political powerhouses to scandal-draped duchesses and defiant princess suffragettes, these royal women didn’t...