Press Release – Pacific Media Watch

SYDNEY (Sydney Morning Herald/AAP/Pacific Media Watch): News Ltd has one month to sell or close its local paper in Fiji, a spokeswoman for the country’s interim government says. Read more »

Speech – The Maori Party

Rahui Katene, MP for Te Tai Tonga: It is a pleasure to stand and take a call on this, the second reading of the Privacy (Cross-border Information) Amendment Bill. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Parliament

Rahui Katene, MP for Te Tai Tonga: It is a pleasure to stand and speak on the third reading of the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill, and especially to follow the previous Minister of Consumer of Affairs and hear the details she was able to give. Read more »

Press Release – United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended Solomon Islanders for taking part in peaceful and orderly parliamentary polls that led to the selection this week of Danny Philip as the new Prime Minister of the Pacific archipelago. Read more »

Press Release – Christchurch City Council

The new Christchurch Civic Building – home for the Christchurch City Council and named Te Hononga – was opened today (Saturday 28 August) by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Rt Hon Sir Anand Satyanand Read more »

Gaston Tong Sang, President of French Polynesia, in Papeete. (Photo courtesy of Wikicommons.)

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Virginie Ribadeau Dumas, in Wellington.

Politics: Follow up from the political soap opera. Interviewed about various current affairs by the daily La Dépêche, French Polynesia’s president Gaston Tong Sang expressed his concerns about the political instability currently reigning in the territory. “I maintain my call for early elections”, he told the journalists, “without a clear majority at the assembly one cannot rule a country.” He insisted on the need to reform the electoral law next year. This reform will be one of the major issues discussed next September with French Overseas Minister Marie-Luce Penchard.

France / French Polynesia: the pro-independence coalition UPLD held a press conference on Monday to explain why its representative will not attend the meeting hosted next September by French Overseas Minister Marie-Luce Penchard to discuss the polling reform aimed at solving the parliamentary instability in Papeete. Read more »

Article – Rick Rozoff

The longest war in U.S. history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first armed conflict outside Europe, as well as its first ground war, is nearing the beginning of its tenth year. Read more »

Article – Rick Rozoff

The longest war in U.S. history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first armed conflict outside Europe, as well as its first ground war, is nearing the beginning of its tenth year. Read more »

Press Release – UNDP Pacific Centre

The challenges posed by health related issues of the Pacific Islanders and impact on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals will be discussed at a workshop, focused on these issues, during the 63rd UN DPI/NGO conference. Read more »

Press Release – NorthTec

NorthTec tutor and Māori carver Brian Mitchell (Ngāti Hine) is one of five international artists who has been invited to participate in next month’s Identité Partagée (Shared Identity) symposium in New Caledonia. Read more »