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Japan Assists Projects In Pacific Region
Tōkyō :: Japan | 9 days ago
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The Forum Secretariat, on behalf of the people of the Pacific commends Japan for giving the stability of the region the priority that it deserves by approving the three projects submitted by the Secretariat for funding,” says Feleti Teo, Acting Secretary...
Tags: private sector, Pacific Islands, forum secretariat, Japan, Tōkyō, Feleti Teo, International organizations, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific Islands Forum
Words that matter in sexual discussions
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 9 days ago
Credibility AusAID-Papua New Guinea, Dr Nii Plange gave these comments during a three-day regional symposium on population and development in the Pacific held at the USP. Dr Plange said advocates avoided the use of the word "sex" and "sexuality issues" in their lectures.
Tags: Pacific Islands, regional symposium, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Social Issues, AIDS, HIV/AIDS, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Sexually transmitted disease, United Nations Population Fund, Freudian psychology, Taboo, Americans for UNFPA, Immunodeficiency, Cultural anthropology, HIV and AIDS misconceptions, Birth control, Health Medical Pharma, Sex education, Education, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Pandemics, Reproductive rights, Safe sex, Human sexual behavior, Sexual health, HIV, HIV/AIDS in Egypt
DEVFISH: Economic Benefits For Pacific Islands
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 10 days ago
Credibility Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and Secretariat for Pacific Community (SPC), supports fisheries development to increase income, jobs and food security from fishing for Pacific Islanders. While in the past, Pacific Islands have relied on foreign...
Tags: Offshore Fisheries Development Project, fishing industry, DEVFISH, Pacific Islands, Pacific Islanders, Tonga, Nuku'alofa, Polynesia, Fisheries, Tuvalu, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Business Finance, International organizations, Constitutional monarchies, Island countries
Poverty warning
Vila :: Vanuatu | 12 days ago
Credibility Pacific Islands will increase in the future as prices of basic food items continue remain high, the United Nations Development Program poverty reduction officer, David Abbott said. He made the comments during a Fiji Economics Association seminar presentation...
Tags: Pacific Islands, Vanuatu, Vila, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009, International Monetary Fund, Fiscal policy, Public finance, Government debt, Deficit, Business Finance, Tonga, Kiribati, Gross domestic product, Percentage, Island countries, Polynesia, Renewable-energy economy
Land of the rising sea
Bairiki :: Kiribati | 13 days ago
Credibility On the front line of climate change, the people of the Pacific Islands are desperately looking for higher ground. Adam Morton reports from Kiribati. When a coconut tree dies the decay starts at the top...All that is left is a desiccated trunk, cut off...
Tags: Kiribati Government, climate change, Tarawa, Australian National Tidal Centre, Anote Tong, Tebunginako, Pacific Islands, Kiribati, Bairiki, Gilbertese language, Current sea level rise, Outline of Kiribati, Micronesia, Republics, Environment
Sharks to be protected from slaughter
Apia :: Samoa | 17 days ago
Credibility More than 80 species of sharks that frequent the Pacific oceans will now be protected under a new regional plan of action. Their protection means cultural practices based around the shark will also be preserved. Sharks are not just significant in the...
Tags: Pacific Islands, Samoa, Apia, Predators, Shark, Basking shark, Shark finning, Whale shark, Sharks, Megafauna, Ichthyology, Environment, Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Grey nurse shark conservation
Sarkozy Heralds New Approach Towards Pacific
Nouméa :: New Caledonia | 20 days ago
Credibility Referring to the grave social and civil unrest that erupted earlier this year in the French Caribbean, especially in the overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, he said this prompted his government to “re-think the relationship between metropolitan...
Tags: Pacific Islands, New Caledonian, France, French Polynesia, French Caribbean, New Caledonia, Nouméa, Brice Hortefeux, Nicolas Sarkozy, Marie-Luce Penchard, Melanesia, Philippe Gomￃﾨs, Politics
Gitmo men celebrate freedom
Koror :: Palau | about 1 month ago
Credibility Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror. They have also pencilled in a day's swimming at the spectacular Rock...
Tags: Palauan, Muslim Uighurs, Guantanamo Bay, Uighurs Released From Gitmo, pacific islands, Pacific Island, islands nation, China, U.S, bay detainees
'Moderate' quake strikes close to Tonga
Apia :: Samoa | about 1 month ago
Credibility The quake was centred 355km north of the main island of Vava'u at a depth of 14km, the United States Geological Survey said. Nine people died five weeks ago when a tsunami hit the northern Tongan island of Niuatoputapu following an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.
Tags: Tongan, Pacific Islands
Bilateral tax agreement with the Cook Islands
Avarua :: Cook Islands | about 1 month ago
Credibility The G20 has endorsed a schedule of countermeasures to be imposed on jurisdictions that fail to conform to acceptable tax integrity and information exchange standards. The countermeasures will commence from March 2010 and include: withholding taxes on...
Tags: Cook Islands, Australia, Pacific Islands
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