RegionalA THIRD of the world supply of tuna for canning and much for sashimi comes from the western Pacific - yet the island countries of the region collect only six percent of the value of their own fisheries.
Amnesty has sights on Fiji in damning new human rights report
AMNESTY International’s Pacific human rights campaign will rise another notch with the release of a damning new report on Fiji tomorrow and further investigations in the pipeline on urban poverty in Fiji and the Solomon Islands and domestic violence in Papua New Guinea.
Major advance in understanding crippling childhood disease
UNIVERSITY of Sydney researchers have made a significant advance in understanding the debilitating hereditary disease Friedreich’s ataxia, offering hope that new forms of treatment will be developed.
NZ war legacy found in tip
WAIKATO TIMES -An Australian researcher is trying to get the public's help to identify World War II photos of Kiwi airmen, including a number likely to be from the Waikato, rescued from a rubbish tip.
Retailers pre-order over 70-million cans of Pacific sustainably fished tuna
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, September 1, 2009 - Pacific Island countries can tap into demand from Europe for over 70 million tins of skipjack tuna by kick starting sustainable pole and line fisheries.
SDL rejects Fiji claim at UN that coup removed terror government
The ousted Fiji governing party has rejected an accusation by Fiji’s interim leader that the former government had been involved in using terror to push a racist and corrupt agenda.
COMMONWEALTH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO VISIT FIJI ISLANDS
Sir Paul Reeves, Special Representative of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, will arrive in Fiji on 8 September for a two-day visit.
Pacific connections to sex, labour slavery
A MAJOR conference on human trafficking starts in Wellington on Wednesday, with one of the organisers alleging New Zealanders are helping drive demand for sex and labour slaves.
Taiwanese ships caught illegally transferring tuna in Pacific waters
TWO Taiwanese longline tuna fishing vessels were caught by Greenpeace in the act of illegally transferring fish in Pacific waters last Wednesday.
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