Pacific Magazine Daily News
Friday: August 22, 2008
Australia, Solomon Islands, Pacific Region
(Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat)
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders who met in Niue in the last two days for the 39th Forum have honored the late Greg Urwin, the...
Guam
(Pacific Daily News)
Nearly 300 public school teachers who were hired to keep Guam’s school’s open won’t receive paychecks today, the Pacific...
Cook Islands, Hawaii
(Honolulu Advertiser)
The Cook Islands’ long-time honorary counsel in Hawaii, Robert Eugene Worthington, has died, the Honolulu Advertiser...
Papua New Guinea, Taiwan (China)
(Taiwan News Online)
Prosecutors say they preparing to indict one of the two brokers who received $30 million from the government in a failed scheme to...
Papua New Guinea
(Post Courier)
The former governor of Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands province yesterday was arrested and charged with misappropriating government...
Papua New Guinea
(Post-Courier)
The lack of refueling systems and uncertainties about fuel quality has led Air Niugini to reduce the number of passengers and cargo it picks up...
Northern Mariana Islands
(Saipan Tribune)
Two Asia-bound flights from Saipan couldn’t leave for hours because of a power outage that shut down the island’s airport, the...
Wallis and Futuna
(Oceania Flash)
A request put to the Forum by the French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna has been put on hold to be considered again in two years, the...
Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
A provocative new report from Australia says high unemployment in many Pacific Island nations means crime is the main source of informal-sector employment in...
Palau (Belau), OTHER
Viet Nam and the Republic of Palau officially established diplomatic relations earlier this release, according to the Viet Nam News Agency.With authority...
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