SYDNEY, 11 JULY 2019 (FINANCIAL REVIEW) — The middle son of ousted Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill is living in a $13 million (US$9 million) house on Sydney’s most expensive street as an investigation is set to begin into his father’s time in office. Brian O’Neill, who is studying at university, has been […]
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China’s largesse in Tonga threatens future of Pacific nation
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — The days unfold at a leisurely pace in Tonga, a South Pacific archipelago with no traffic lights or fast-food chains. Snuffling pigs roam dusty roads that wind through villages dotted with churches. Yet even in this far-flung island kingdom there are signs that a battle for power and influence is heating […]
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24 killed in retaliatory attacks in Hela, PNG PM condemn the killings
PORT MORESBY, 10 JULY 2019 (POST COURIER)) — Two pregnant women and children were among at least 22 people killed in the Tagali LLG, Tari-Pori district, Hela Province, last Saturday and a retaliatory attack the following day. According to Hela administrator William Bando and provincial police commander Chief Inspector Teddy Augwi, the killings followed fighting […]
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PNG Parliament to debate death penalty
PORT MORESBY, 02 JULY 2019 (THE NATIONAL) — Papua New Guinea Parliament will continue to debate whether the death penalty is maintained in the criminal code, Prime Minister James Marape says. Marape was responding to NCD Governor Powes Parkop’s questions about 11 prisoners who had been on death row for over 10 years. He said […]
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Japan, US and Australia push back on China’s South Pacific expansion
Tokyo advocates ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ and promises economic aid By Susumu Kuronuma, Nikkei staff writer TOKYO, 04 JULY 2019 (NIKKEI REVIEW) — A war of nerves involving Japan, the U.S., Australia and China is underway over island nations in the South Pacific Ocean such as Palau, Fiji and the Cook Islands, with attention focused […]
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Rate of child sexual exploitation in Pacific ‘appalling’
AUCKLAND, 04 JULY 2019 (RNZ PACIFIC) —New research into child sexual exploitation in the Pacific reaffirms that children are most often sexually exploited by people they know. The survey by the child protection agency ECPAT International shows perpetrators are most likely to be family members or a close family friend. It was a small study […]