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PORT MORESBY, 10 APRIL 2017 (POST COURIER) — More than 4000 candidates, 200 of them women, have registered their intention to contest the 2017 National Election in Papua New Guinea, which is 10 days away. The Highlands region has registered the highest number of 1719 intending candidates. [restrict] It is followed by Momase with 1017, […]

NOUMEA, 10 APRIL 2017 (RNZI) — The cyclone caused flooding in Vanuatu’s central islands Sunday and is now set to hit New Caledonia’s main island with winds gusting now up to 160 kilometres an hour. The storm’s centre is forecast to pass to the west of the Loyalty Islands, before making landfall on the east […]

MAJURO, 10 APRIL 2017 (MARIANAS VARIETY) — Women are seeking help from the Marshall Islands High Court for protection against domestic violence at a record-setting pace in 2017. Two new temporary protection orders or TPOs issued at the end of March bring the total to seven in the first three months of 2017. This compares […]

SUVA, 10 APRIL 2017 (PACNEWS) — Pacific Island Countries will continue their push to convince multilateral and development financing partners to expand the definition of ‘fragility’ to include climate change vulnerability. This was one of the key messages from the just concluded Forum Economic Ministers (FEMM) meeting in Suva last week. [restrict] Samoa’s Finance Minister, […]

MAJURO, 10 APRIL 2017 (PNA) —- Nine islands that control the majority of tuna in the western and central Pacific are meeting in Majuro this week, focusing on important tuna management issues for the region. [restrict] The annual officials meeting of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) — eight island nations plus Tokelau — […]