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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.
Dame Carol Kidu bows out as PNG opposition leader
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.
Somare leaves door open for PNG election bid
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.Australia silent on probe of Vanuatu tiff
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.
Vanuatu opposition MP says protestors should not have been arrested
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.
Teen beauty queen dumped after race row
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.
Fiji’s regime changes Air Pacific back to Fiji Airways
RNZI: The interim Fiji government has changed the name of Air Pacific back to Fiji Airways - its name from 1958 to 1970.
PNG’s only female MP has concerns about new development in capital
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.
Ni-Vanuatu more prepared for cyclones: disaster office
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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