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Military size is no constitutional issue, says Fiji AG

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RNZI: Fiji’s interim Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says it is not for a constitution to prescribe the size of the military.

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Dame Carol Kidu bows out as PNG opposition leader

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Radio Australia: Papua New Guinea's Opposition Leader, Dame Carol Kidu has bowed out of politics, asking to be remembered not as a women's advocate but as a social development policy maker.

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Somare leaves door open for PNG election bid

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Last week, Sir Michael said he would not run, despite reconsidering his retirement plan.Radio Australia: Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare looks set to change his mind yet again and stand in the upcoming election.

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Australia silent on probe of Vanuatu tiff

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RNZI: Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it has nothing to add to the circumstances preceding last week’s expulsion of Australian police from Vanuatu.

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Vanuatu opposition MP says protestors should not have been arrested

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RNZI: A Vanuatu opposition MP says people who staged a protest against the arrival of an Indonesian military aircraft in Port Vila yesterday should not have been arrested.

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Teen beauty queen dumped after race row

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Torika Watters has been stripped of her Miss Fiji crown (Photo: Facebook - Torika Watters) ABC/AFP: Fiji beauty queen Torika Watters, who was the target of racist criticism about her looks, has been replaced as the island nation's Miss World pageant entrant.

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Fiji’s regime changes Air Pacific back to Fiji Airways

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RNZI: The interim Fiji government has changed the name of Air Pacific back to Fiji Airways - its name from 1958 to 1970.

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PNG’s only female MP has concerns about new development in capital

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RNZI: Papua New Guinea’s only woman MP, Dame Carol Kidu, says a company behind a huge development that saw hundreds of settlers in her Port Moresby electorate made homeless at the weekend, does not have a valid title to the land.

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Ni-Vanuatu more prepared for cyclones: disaster office

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RNZI: A senior research and planning officer for Vanuatu’s National Disaster Office says people are becoming better prepared to cope with tropical cyclones.

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