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Royal Tonga Police Force Band crowned winners at Inaugural Pacific Police Tattoo
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 22, 2025
The Royal Tonga Police Force Band has taken home the coveted Overall Performance award at the inaugural Pacific Police Tattoo, a vibrant musical celebration held today at Sir Hubert Murray Stadium in Port Moresby. The event, supported by the...
FIFA takes World Cup rights tenders to New Zealand, Pacific Islands
Sportcal
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April 30, 2025
Soccer's global governing body FIFA has launched tender processes in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands covering the next three FIFA World Cups – two men's and one women's. Specifically, a tender has been launched covering the 2026 (Mexico, the...
India's IT fix for climate refugees could be the upgrade its global image needs
Mint
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July 24, 2025
Australia has started the world’s first special visa programme for climate refugees, beginning with Tuvalu—one of the South Pacific islands most at risk of submergence due to rising sea levels caused by global warming and melting polar ice caps....
Climate crisis to legal battles
New Age Bangladesh
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| IUCN IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one...
10 of the best things to do in New Zealand
Lonely Planet
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Spectacular and diverse, New Zealand (Aotearoa) is one of the world's most memorable destinations. From its inspirational Māori cultural experiences to its epic and otherworldly national parks, it can be hard to narrow down what to do. You can...
Last country on Earth without a national football team are ready for debut
The Times
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The final resistance to football’s global dominance is set to fall in the early hours of Friday, when the self-proclaimed “last country on Earth without a team”, the Marshall Islands, play their first international match. Led by a former...
PM Rabuka to skip Pacific Foreign Ministers meet today
The Fiji Times
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka will not attend todays Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Suva. The Pacific Islands Forum has confirmed Fiji will be represented by Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Special Envoy of the...
Festival celebration of Pasifika cultures, tradition
Otago Daily Times
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March 30, 2025
The culture and traditions of Dunedin’s Pasifika communities were celebrated at the fourth and largest Moana Nui Festival at the weekend. The festival, led by Pacific Trust Otago, returned to the Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday for more than a...
Aotearoa's i-Kiribati community honours language and culture
Pacific Media Network
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Thousands of i-Kiribati people across Aotearoa New Zealand are celebrating their rich language and culture during Kiribati Language Week, which is now in its fifth year. The celebrations kicked off on Sunday in Wellington at Pataka Art and Museum,...
This island nation is sinking - and over a third of its residents want out
AS
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June 29, 2025
Around 40% of the population of Tuvalu is reported to have applied for a ‘climate visa’ to settle in Australia, as the tiny nation in the Pacific Ocean deals with the ever-growing threat of rising sea levels. Tuvalu set to be uninhabitable by 2100...
Amid GAY airport row, a look at other unusual codes across the world
Hindustan Times
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August 6, 2025
On August 5, A BJP MP took exception to the airport code of Gaya International Airport. The code ‘GAY’ was “socially and culturally” offensive, according to Bhim Singh who sought that the government change it to a “more respectful and culturally...
What links The Birds, Working Girl and Fifty Shades of Grey? The Saturday quiz
The Guardian
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July 5, 2025
The questions 1 Whose big mistake was to believe Sinon? 2 The Hungarian Mudi has been recognised as the 225th what? 3 What space station was launched by Nasa in 1973? 4 Claudia Jones and Rhaune Laslett were founders of which annual celebration? 5...
Cities of the World: Around the globe in 282 artworks
The Irish Times
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Because my family seldom throw things away, we still have a copy of the Certificate Atlas for Irish Schools from 1980. It shows a number of countries that no longer exist. Alongside the vast pink mass of the USSR, and hugging the eastern end of...
What Cristiano Ronaldo could afford to buy after £492m deal
LBC
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2 July 2025, 14:07 | Updated: 2 July 2025, 14:18 Al Hilal v Al Nassr - Saudi Pro League. Picture: Getty Cristiano Ronaldo has cemented himself as the highest-paid person in sport with an annual contract exceeding the GDP of several small countries...
Climate ruling puts Australia on notice, but is Canberra listening?
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 24, 2025
To the beat of ancient drums, in the language of their ancestors, dancers from Australia's northernmost islands share a modern story. Outside the federal court in Cairns, Torres Strait Islander dancers wear grass skirts and the traditional...
The Red Tape Around .in: Why New Rule Could Shrink India’s Internet
BOOMLive
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August 4, 2025
If you’ve ever typed a website address into your browser, you’ve used a domain. Just like every country has its own dialing code, it also has its own domain extension—India’s is .in. These domains are used by businesses, individuals, and...
PNG delegation participates in Garma Festival in Australia
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 4, 2025
Two Bougainvillean parliamentarians were recently invited to attend Australia’s largest Indigenous cultural festival as part of a Pacific delegation. The Garma Festival in East Arnhem Land was attended by Minister Geraldine Paul, Minister for...
NMI’s Aleksenko gets 4th gold
Marianas Variety
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(Northern Marianas Sports Association) — NMI’s Isaiah Aleksenko extended his winning streak by clinching a fourth straight gold medal on Day 3 of the swimming competitions at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau. Aleksenko’s fourth gold came in...
Seth Sablan gives Team Marianas 3rd gold
Marianas Variety
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(Northern Marianas Sports Association) — Youth athlete Seth Sablan continues to have an impressive debut in the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, as he won another medal in the wrestling competition. After clinching a bronze medal in the men’s...
A legal tipping point on climate
The Ecologist
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July 29, 2025
Not only does this provide powerful support to the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty which seeks to draw a line under new exploration and production by the industry, it is a very small step from this to similar implications for...