Sir Julius Chan ... backing Simberi landowners and furious with the mine management. Photo: Malum Nalu

Pacific Scoop:
By Henzy Yakham and Pacific Media Watch

The suspicious arrival of 14 hired Fijian “mercenaries” at  Simberi gold mine in Papua New Guinea’s northern island province of New Ireland has raised serious security, immigration and work permit issue concerns, reports the Sunday Chronicle. Read more »

Gaston Tong Sang ... French Polynesia's current president. Photo: AFP

Pacific Scoop
By a special correspondent in St Denis

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has signalled yet another electoral and institutional reform for French Polynesia in a bid to end an ongoing spate of political instability in the French Pacific territory.

Speaking in St Denis in La Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, with a speech to mark his New Year Wishes to all French overseas communalities, he touched on French Polynesia with a pledge that an electoral reform would be carried out some time this year. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion has successfully located a 16ft vessel missing at sea for six days in the seas off Kiribati. The four teenagers (three females and one male) were all well but drifting approximately 50 nautical miles north west … Read more »

Press Release – Speight’s Coast to Coast

Everyone knows Robin Judkins, the eccentric, unemployable rogue who created the Speight’s Coast to Coast. And everyone knows Steve Gurney, the equally eccentric endurance junky who won the 243k world multisport championship no less than nine times. But … Read more »

Pacific Press Release – Government of the Cook Islands

The local fishing industry gets a hands up to help overcome the current slump it’s experiencing and decline in fish stocks in southern group waters with a reduction in annual licensing fees. Read more »

Pacific Press Release – Government of the Cook Islands

A national project which aims at reducing carbon emissions and domestic power bills is being launched today by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Aponga Uira Robert Wigmore. Read more »

Pacific Press Release – Embajada de Cuba Nueva Zelanda

The solidarity of the Cuban People with Haiti did not arrive because of the earthquake. This special collaboration has been offered to our sister nation for more than one decade. Read more »

Press Release – US Department of State – Background Notes

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Press Release – US Department of State – Background Notes

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