ANCHORAGE, 12 JULY 2017 (AP) — A 54-year-old American Samoan woman suspected of filing US$1.3 million in fraudulent U.S. tax refund claims has been arrested. Coriana Ifopo is charged with 28 counts of making false claims to a government agency for tax years 2013-15. [restrict] She was arrested Tuesday in Honolulu. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aunnie […]
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Tuvalu raises legal complication in UN Law of the Sea on determining territorial seas and EEZ
SUVA, 12 JULY 2017 (PACNEWS) — The island nation of Tuvalu has identified what it says is a ‘legal complication’ in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that relates to the determination of a nation’s baseline especially for countries that are impacted by climate change. [restrict] A baseline, according to […]
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Cook Islands Tourism focuses on Japanese market
RAROTONGA, 13 JULY 2017 (COOK ISLANDS NEWS) — Cook Islands Tourism Corporation is looking at avenues to improve its market in Japan. Director of sales and marketing Karla Eggelton is currently in Japan on a six day tourism related tour, attending workshops to better promote the destination in the Japanese market. [restrict] In her first […]
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Japan flood death toll rises to 30
Tokyo (AFP) – The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Japan’s south has risen to 30, officials said Thursday, while rescue workers continued their efforts to find survivors. Heavy seasonal rains last week caused severe flooding that tore up roads and destroyed houses on the southern island of Kyushu, with hundreds of thousands […]
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Australian man dies in parasailing accident in Thailand
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — Thai police say an Australian businessman has died after plunging 70 meters (230 feet) into shallow water while parasailing off the island of Phuket. Police say Roger John Hussey was briefly conscious when medics reached him but he died in a hospital Wednesday. [restrict] Video circulated on social media shows the […]
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Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies. But the gesture opened the door for others, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]