Press Release – Waikato University

Waikato Management School research which examines CEO strategic decision-making and the role of the accountant in institutional change has garnered two early-career academics Outstanding Emerging Scholar awards. Read more »

Lord Tu'ivakano farewells Tongan troops bound for RAMSI deployment in the Solomon Islands. Photo Tongan PMO

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By a special correspondent in Nuku’alofa

The Tongan Prime Minister,  Lord Tu’ivakano, has personally farewelled 33 Tonga Defence Force soldiers embarking on a RAMSI support mission in the Solomon Islands.

“I wish you all the best in your mission, as you are good men of this nation,” Lord Tu’ivakano told the departing platoon at Fua’amotu Airport .

“You are representing His Majesty the King, and the people of Tonga.” Read more »

Press Release – Solomon Islands Government

Prime Minister Danny Philip on Friday has hailed a visiting Papua New Guinea trade and investment team describing it as a “welcome initiative” for the government and people of Solomon Islands. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force

Media Advisory Monday 28 February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake – NZ Defence Force – Update 10 • AIR FORCE FREIGHT OVER HALF A MILLION KILOS • CANTERBURY TO ARRIVE BACK IN LYTTELTON AROUND 6PM • ARMY ENGINEERS HEAD INTO SUBURBS • NZ DEFENCE … Read more »

Press Release – Church of Latter Day Saints

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Four sister missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints caught up in Tuesday’s devastating earthquake share their experiences on this YouTube video Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

(Onearth.org/Pacific Media Watch): Carteret Islanders have been called the world’s first climate refugees. Their homeland, a remote chain of six small islands in the South Pacific, is fast losing ground to rising sea levels. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

SUVA (Fijivillage.com/Pacific Media Watch): Social networking websites have a growing influence on the population in Fiji and many business houses and organisations are now changing their attitude towards social media and are looking at ways on how to … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

Jhon Magai Yogi is the son of General Thadius Magai Yogi, the Comander of the TPN – OPM Dev II Makodam Pemka IV Paniai with its headquarters in Eduda, was arrested yesterday 26 Feb 2011 by security forces TNI/Police after being sent from Enarotoli … Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

The police commander of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province says high-powered weapons are regularly being smuggled into the country from Australia’s Torres Strait in exchange for drugs. Read more »

Article – West Papua Media Alerts

The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has been told. Read more »