PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association articles from June 2007

PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association archives from June 2007

New Zealand welcomes decision to lift emergency regulations in Fiji.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) ---- New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters said Thursday the Fiji interim administration's decision to lift emergency regulations is a good first step on the road back to constitutional government. ...

Tourism industry welcomes lifting of state of emergency.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) Fijis Visitors Bureau (FVB) has welcomed the interim administrations decision to lift the state of emergency regulation in the Pacific nation, Fiji Times reports. I may speak for all involved in tourism to say...

DFAT warns of violence before PNG election.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has warned of possible violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ahead of the country's national elections starting in June, ABC online reports. ...

U.S. to audit Palaus Compact.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 KOROR (Pacnews) ----A formal request has been made by the United States Congress to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an audit of Palaus use of the United States funds provided under the Compact...

Tongan king proposes comprehensive education reform.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 NUKUALOFA (Pacnews) ----Tongas King George Tupou V has called for reform of the countrys education, Radio New Zealand International reports. In his speech from the throne yesterday opening the first session of Parliament since...

Tonga PM doubts political reforms can be in place for elections next year.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 NUKUALOFA (Pacnews) --- Tongas Prime Minister Dr Feleti Sevele says his personal opinion is that political reform cannot be achieved in the island kingdom in time for next years election, Radio New Zealand International reports....

Parliamentary secretaries plan unconstitutional: Speaker.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- The Speaker of the Solomon Islands Parliament says a government move to create parliamentary secretary positions for MP's would be unconstitutional. The Solomon Island Government has already gazetted the...

Three African nationals nabbed at border.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---Three foreign nationals are currently in police custody in Vanimo after they were caught trying to enter Papua New Guinea (PNG) illegally through Indonesia. Provincial police commander for Sandaun...

Media Council condemns attack on newspaper journo.
June 1, 2007... 01 MAY 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has condemned the attack on a member of its industry, a female journalist and mother, in Port Moresby this week, The National reports. Post-Courier reported...

Tiensten denies report of Australian police advisors.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----The Papua New Guinea (PNG)s foreign affairs and Immigration Paul Tiensten yesterday described, as misleading, media reports suggesting Australia had been waiting for the PNG Government to approve the...

U.S. welcomes decision to lift emergency regulations in Fiji.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----The United States Government has welcomed the lifting of the Emergency regulation in Fiji. In a statement the U.S Embassy in Suva said it was encouraged by the decision of the interim government. The...

Airline crew face smuggling charge.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) An Air Niugini aircraft crew is under investigation for attempting to smuggle goods into the country worth over K12, 000 (US$4, 300) The two pilots and an aircraft engineer did not personally declare...

FNPF warned of possible $79m loss in Natadola.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----Fijis National Provident Fund (FNPF) stands to lose $79million (US$49 million) if the controversial Natadola Marine Resort project collapses, a development company has warned, Fiji Times reports. Asia...

Japan threatens to withdraw from International Whaling body.
June 1, 2007... 01 JUNE 2007 ANCHORAGE (Pacnews) ---Japan has threatened to quit the International Whaling Commission after fierce opposition from anti-whaling nations forced it to scrap a proposal to allow four coastal villages to hunt the animals, Radio...

In the aftermath of the tsunami disaster, why infrastructure matters.
June 1, 2007... Reports from Robert Guild, ADB Pacific Departments Senior Transport Specialist. 01 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ----At 7.39am on 2 April a massive undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated parts of Western and Choiseul...

DFAT asked to explain Nauru aid blow-out.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----Australia is all but running the supposedly independent state of Nauru, The Age reports. Under the agreement that allows Australia to send asylum seekers to the Pacific nation to prevent them from landing...

AIDS set to reach 6000.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) --- About 6000 people are projected to have AIDS in Fiji by 2015 unless stakeholders talk about all the truths of the disease to contain it, Fiji Times reports. Former Health Ministry senior official and now...

Media freedom curtailed in Samoa.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) ---- Freedom of the press and the integrity of journalists are under attack this week in Samoa. NZ herald reports the owner of the largest radio station in Samoa, Radio Polynesia, Maposua Rudolph Keil, has made a...

Foster 'smugglers' appeal for Australian Government help.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT VILLA (Pacnews) ----Two Australian men are appealing to the Australian Government for help as they await trial in Vanuatu on charges of smuggling conman Peter Foster from Fiji six months ago, Brisbane Times reports. ...

Government committed to establish USP campus in Honiara.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- Solomon Islands Education Minister Dr Derek Sikua says the Pacific nation is committed to the establishment of University of South Pacific (USP)s fourth campus in Solomon Islands. SIBC reports Dr Sikua...

World Environment Day Continues to Call Attention to the Environment.
June 4, 2007... An opinion piece by American Ambassador to Fiji Larry Dinger. 05 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----- As World Environment Day approaches on 05 June h, I would like to share with you what the United States is doing every day with our partners...

3.9million eligible voters for PNG election.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---A total of 3,938,839 people have registered to vote on the new electoral roll, according to Papua New Guinea (PNG)s Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen, The National reports. This represents a drop...

Internet phone calls stopped in Vanuatu.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT VILLA (Pacnews) ----Telecom Vanuatu is under fire after deciding to stop people using the internet to make cheap international telephone calls. The Vanuatu Daily reports people with access to fast broadband internet are...

Foreign minister to visit Tonga.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) ---- New Zealands foreign minister Winston Peters will visit Tonga this week to discuss the island kingdom's democratic reform process. During his one day visit, Mr Peters was scheduled to meet his foreign...

Foreign minister slams journalist attack.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) --- The attack on a female journalist last weekend was not only to harm the reporter but was a crime against the freedom of information in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Post Courier reports. PNGs foreign...

60 percent of CNMI children live with smokers at home.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 SAIPAN (Pacnews) ---- Sixty percent of children from grades 6 to 12 in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke at home, according to Community Guidance Center drug prevention...

Pacific Islands offer sun, sand and climate change lessons.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 BELIZE (Pacnews) ---- The palm-fringed islands of the South Pacific offer vacationers an alternative to sunbathing and swimming -- grim lessons on the effects of global warming, delegates at a conference in Belize said. The 22...

Election writs could be withdrawn if tribal conflicts are not resolved: Electoral Commissioner.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---Papua New Guinea (PNG)s Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen has urged candidates of warring tribes to resolve their conflicts without disrupting the elections, The National reports. Mr Trawen told...

Close results in French Polynesia's election for Paris seats.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PAPEETE (Pacnews) ----- Voters in French Polynesia have cast their vote to elect two members of the French National Assembly one week ahead of the metropolitan poll, Oceania Flash reports. French Polynesia was for the first...

DFAT denies failure to assist Vanuatu prisoners.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has denied claims its failed to offer assistance to two Australian men awaiting trial in Vanuatu, Radio Australia reports. Sydney man Andrew Tatar and Kel...

Media council President vows to uphold media freedom.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----Newly appointed Papua New Guinea (PNG) Media Council president Oseah Philemon says the media must co-operate to ensure that democracy prevails to maintain freedom of reporting, The National reports. ...

Agriculture minister step down.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 NUKUALOFA (Pacnews) --- Tongas Prime Minister, Dr Feleti Sevele has announced the voluntary resignation of the Minister of Agriculture, Peauafi Haukinima. Dr Sevele said that the Minister had been on leave and has now tendered...

Samoa journalists call for freedom to report news.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) ---The Journalists Association of Samoa has issued a statement calling for journalists to be allowed freedom to report as they see fit, Radio New Zealand International reports. The call was made after the owner...

More court circuits for Solomon Islands provinces.
June 4, 2007... 04 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- More courts circuits are expected in the Solomon Islands provinces once additional magistrates are added to the judiciary, Radio New Zealand International reports. The Ministry of Justice permanent...

Australia wants Fiji to plan return to democracy.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ---Australia's foreign minister Alexander Downer says Australia will not change its attitude to Fiji until the country puts in place a serious plan for a return to democracy. Mr Downer told Radio Australia...

Foreign minister says Solomon Islands Government and RAMSI need to compromise.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 SINGAPORE (Pacnews) ----New Zealand's foreign minister says the Solomon Islands Government and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) need to find a middle ground, Radio Australia reports. Speaking at a...

PM under pressure to replace Internal Affairs Minister.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PORT VILA (Pacnews) ---Vanuatus Prime Minister Ham Lini is under pressure to replace the Minister for Internal Affairs, Radio New Zealand International reports. This follows the decision by the Minister George Wells to defect...

LAWASIA boss faces query.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) --- The president of LAWASIA, Mah Weng Kwai, faces a challenge to his acceptance of the post of commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption at the organisation's biennial convention in Hong...

Former Bouganville governor appointed PNGS ambassador to China.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----Former Bougainville Governor John Momis has been accepted by the Chinese Government to serve as PNG's Ambassador in that country, National Broadcasting Commission reports. Ambassador Momis will sign...

Niue Premier hopes for more trade with China.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 ALOFI (Pacnews) ---Niue's Premier says he hopes to win preferential treatment for the country's exports during a visit to China this week. Young Vivian said any concessions with China are unlikely to replace the traditional...

Australian Opposition leader Kevin Rudd in search of a Pacific solution.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----A new Pacific centre to co-ordinate civil and military planning would be part of a Rudd government's efforts to anticipate breakdowns in Australia's faltering Pacific neighbours. Opposition Leader Kevin...

Political party withdrawn from Solomon Islands opposition.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- Solomon Islands longest surviving political party People's Alliance Party (PAP) has withdrawn its support from the Parliamentary Opposition, SIBC reports. A meeting of more than 20 PAP supporters and...

New anti-malarial drug on the market.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---- A new anti-malarial drug has been accepted for distribution throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG) public health system following the signing of an agreement in Port Moresby yesterday, Post Courier reports... .

U.S. Congress urges Rice for early review of Palaus Compact.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 KOROR (Pacnews) ---Members of United States Congress has asked United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to begin the formal review of the U.S. Compact of Free Association with Palau, Marianas Variety reports. Palaus...

New High Commissioner to Vanuatu appointed.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) --- The New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters has announced the appointment of career diplomat Jeff Langley as its new high commissioner to Vanuatu. New Zealand and Vanuatu have developed a close and...

Vice President of American Samoa Senate dies.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PAGOPAGO (Pacnews) ---The Vice President of the American Samoa Senate, Senator Faiivae Galeai died yesterday at the LBJ Hospital, Radio New Zealand International reports. Mr Faiivae was 76 and held the Fofo District seat in the...

Police officers deployed to Solomon Islands.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----Five police personnel from Papua New Guinea (PNG) are on their way to join their other colleagues in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), NBC reports. The personnel,...

Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) welcomes Tongas contribution.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) Special Coordinator Tim George today thanked the Kingdom of Tonga for its very valuable contribution to the work of the Regional Assistance Mission to...

Military watchdog mooted.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ---The Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) have been in dialogue with the Ombudsman Commission to establish a Military Ombudsman, PNGs defence commander Commodore Peter Ilau said, The National reports. ...

Samoa radio station denies media freedom suppressed.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) ---The owner of Radio Polynesia in Samoa denies that he is suppressing media freedom, Radio New Zealand International reports. Maposua Rudolf Keil has defended his decision to stop two of his journalists from...

Continental defers cargo halt to Kwajalein Army base.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 MAJURO (Pacnews) ----Continental l Micronesia Airlines has deferred its announced plan to halt cargo service to the U.S. Armys missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll in response to an offer by the base commander to talk over the...

Old chicken bones show Polynesians came to Chile.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 WASHINGTON (Pacnews) ---- A chicken bone found in Chile provides solid evidence to settle a debate over whether Polynesians traveling on rafts visited South America thousands of years ago -- or vice versa, researchers said on...

Fijians want Rabi Island returned.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----The original inhabitants of Rabi Island now living in Lovonivonu , Taveuni have pleaded with Fijis interim Lands Minister for the return of their island, Fiji Times reports. They made known their desire last...

SPREP calls for conservation of coral reefs and mangroves to strengthen Pacific islands against climate change.
June 5, 2007... 05 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) ----The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has called on its members to strengthen the conservation of coral reefs and mangroves to improve adaptation to climate change. The...

Travel warning to Fiji toned down, Bainimarama hit back at Downer.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----The Australian Government has toned down its travel warnings on Fiji, after the military government last week ended a state of emergency in the Pacific country, The Australian reports. Fiji's interim...

Pacific Islanders upset at NZ proposal to drop prayers.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) ----Moves to get rid of the Christian prayer at the start of each session of New Zealand's parliament have outraged many Pacific Islanders, Radio Australia reports. The moves to dump the prayer or change...

Malaysian lawyer steps down from Fiji post.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 HONG KONG (Pacnews) ----Malaysian lawyer Mah Weng Kwai has reportedly stepped down from an appointment as commissioner of the Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC), Radio Australia reports. Mr Mah is also...

Australia to fund Asia-Pacific climate projects.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ---Australia has committed US$6 million to help poor nations across Asia and the Pacific assess and adapt to the likely impacts of climate change, Radio Australia. In Cambodia, malaria control has been...

NZ foreign minister criticised for not meeting pro-demo MPs in Tonga visit.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) ---New Zealand Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the foreign minister Winston Peters for not meeting with pro-democracy MPs in his visit to Tonga this week., Radio New Zealand International reports....

West Papua sets up anti-graft body.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 JAYAPURA (Pacnews) ---The provincial administration in Indonesias West Papua province has set up a body to prevent corruption and prosecute those involved in the practice, Radio New Zealand International reports. West Papua...

Five Pacific Island countries voted against a resolution on a South Atlantic.
June 6, 2007... Whales Sanctuary 06 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----- Five Pacific Island countries have not only let whales down but also refused to help preserve a big part of the Pacific Islands regional culture at the International Whaling Commission...

10,000 people in Bougainville may not vote.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 BUKA (Pacnews) ----More than 10,000 people in Panguna, Bougainville may not be able to vote because their names have not been included in the common roll, The National reports. Bouganville Provincial returning officer Reitama...

Reconciliation ceremony held on Guadalcanal Weathercoast.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---- Thousands of people in Solomon Islands who once fought, killed and hated each other during the ethnic tension in the Pacific nation have finally been re-united with each other in a moving and emotional...

Australian seminar examines Fiji coup.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----On the sixth month anniversary of the Fiji coup, the Australian National University has held a seminar which has attracted many of the critics of the current interim regime. Radio Australia reports it was...

Global warming or not, ocean's rising over Pacific islands.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 MAJURO (Pacnews) ----Central Pacific islanders say they aren't sure whether global warming is to blame, but there's no doubt that the oceans around them are rising, AP reports. Longtime island residents say that when the...

Fiji police probe death of three Asians.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ---Fiji Police are investigating the death of two Chinese and a Filipino national on board a Taiwanese fishing vessel outside Fiji waters, Fiji Live reports. The fishing vessel delivered the bodies to police...

State of Chuuk and Kosrae will go to the poll next month.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 POHNPEI (Pacnews) The island states of Chuuk and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) will go to the poll next month to elect their representatives to the 15th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. ...

More jobs for locals at Gold Ridge.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ---Gold Ridge Mining Limited has announced that it will employ more Solomon Islanders and outside expertise to work in its gold production next year, Solomon Star reports. The companys country manager Val Beniuk...

Pacific Islands Forging Political Alliances for Money.
June 6, 2007... Reports from Worldpress.org. 06 JUNE 2007 PHONPEI (Pacnews) ------Francis Hazel, director of The Micronesian Seminar, remembers how one day a television crew from Israel besieged his office in Pohnpei, the capital of the Federated States...

K90million in electoral fund missing.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----The Papua New Guinea (PNG)s Ombudsman Commission has instigated an investigation to recoup more than K90 million (US$30 million) in n electoral funds that had gone missing through questionable...

Ford sued by family over Tongan royals' deaths.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 REDWOOD CITY (Pacnews) ----The family of the Tongan royals killed in a crash in the United States last year are suing car manufacturer Ford over their deaths, Stuff NZ reports. Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 55, his wife,...

Forests exhausted by 2010: environment group.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 HONIARA (Pacnews) ----A Solomon Islands environment organisation says past government inaction has put the country's forest at risk, Radio Australia reports. Solomon Islands economy relies heavily on log exports which are...

French Polynesian minister Yip resigns report.
June 6, 2007... 06 JUNE 2007 PAPEETE (Pacnews) ----Reports from French Polynesia say the telecommunications minister, Michel Yip, has resigned, Radio Newzealand International reports. Local radio said the move has not been confirmed by the President,...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) Sponsors Samoa Tourism Investment.
June 6, 2007... Seminar 06 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) ----International Finance Corporation (IFC) the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and the Samoa Hotel Association have organized a seminar designed to build expertise in the countrys tourism...

PM confident elections will be violence free.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) ----Papua New Guinea (PNG)s Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare says he's confident the national elections due to be held later this month will be free of violence and vote tampering. Radio Australia...

Interim AG calls on judge to quit.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ----Fiji Court of Appeal president Justice Gordon Ward has been asked to resign because he is alleged to have compromised his position in the judiciary, Fiji Times reports. This was revealed by interim...

Papuans bringing diseases to north.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) --- A health crisis is looming in Australia's far north, where thousands of Papuans have been crossing the Torres Strait to access medical services, bringing disease and spreading fears of an HIV outbreak, The...

Samoas Deputy PM warns against one-size fits all democracy.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 APIA (Pacnews) -----Samoas Deputy Prime Minister, Misa Telefoni Retzlaff, has warned foreign aid donors and agencies not to try to impose the same form of democracy throughout the Pacific, Radio New Zealand International reports....

Tuvalu embarks on an ambitious project.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 FUNAFUTI (Pacnews) ---Tuvalu has embarked on an ambitious project to explain to the worlds leading nations what impact climate change is having on its people, Radio New Zealand International reports. The project run by the...

Sarkozy's party is heading for a landslide victory.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 PARIS (Pacnews) ----Projections after the first round of France's parliamentary elections suggest President Nicolas Sarkozy's party is heading for a landslide. Although most seats will not be decided until next week's second...

Senior military officer to be high commissioner to Malaysia.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 SUVA (Pacnews) ---A senior army officer in Fiji is tipped to become the islands new high commissioner to Malaysia. Colonel Pita Driti Land Force commander of the Fiji Military Forces has begun orientations for his new job at...

Veteran New Caledonian politician loses French Assembly seat.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 NOUMEA (Pacnews) ----New Caledonias veteran politician, Jacques Lafleur, has failed to retain his seat in the French assembly, Radio New Zealand International reports. In the first round of the assembly election, Mr Lafleur was...

Former Fiji Police Commissioner recognised in the latest Queen's Birthday honours list.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 CANBERRA (Pacnews) ----Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty has congratulated the three police officers recognised in the latest Queen's Birthday honours list, The Australian reports . AFP Assistant...

Cook Islands Maori school opens in Sydney.
June 11, 2007... 11 JUNE 2007 RAROTONGA (Pacnews) ------The first Cook Islands Maori language school in Australia has opened its door in Sydneys southern-eastern suburbs, Radio New Zealand International reports. The school has 30 students between three and...