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Council-backed venue brings Pacific-led show to Central Auckland
Pacific Media Network
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Auckland Council is bringing Pacific-led theatre to the heart of the city by funding the venue for Tafatolu, a new 50-minute play blending Sāmoan mythology, live music, and physical theatre. The production has not received direct council funding,...
Ag Progress Days 2025 Coverage: Stay Up To Date On Penn State's Annual Agricultural Event
Lancaster Farming - Pennsylvania
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July 29, 2025
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Pacific Tourism Organisation and Niue Tourism Office Release Key Insights from Niue Community Attitude Survey
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 22, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), through its Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI), has completed the Community Attitudes Survey (CAS) for Niue, delivering important insights into public sentiment around tourism development and its...
Pacific Celebrates The Voices Of Women In Fisheries At The Fisheries Ministers Meeting In Niue
Scoop
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Women working behind the scenes across the Pacific fisheries sector were celebrated in Niue last night, as the latest edition of Moana Voices was honoured during the opening ceremony of the 24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting...
Stronger ties benefit Pacific island nations
China Daily Global
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Fijian students try their hands at Chinese calligraphy on April 15 during an event celebrating the United Nations Chinese Language Day, which falls on April 20, in Suva, the capital of the Pacific island country. GAO XIN/XINHUA This summer, Basi...
Workshops strengthen media literacy in Raro
Cook Island News
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August 12, 2025
Three-person team from Pacific Media Network (PMN) in New Zealand completed a series of media literacy workshops in Rarotonga earlier this month. PMN Cook Islands producer Tauraki Rongo (from left), Pacific Mornings Host William Terite and PMN...
Chinese envoy stresses partnership agreement with Cook Islands 'has nothing to do with military or security agenda': media
Global Times
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China-Cook Islands relationship Photo: VCG The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) 2025-2030 signed between China and the Cook Islands has "nothing to do with any military or security agenda," and that "everyone could see for themselves…...
Crown Dependency? We have been self-governing for over 800 years.So let’s retire the language of empire
Jersey Evening Post
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August 11, 2025
By Carl Parslow IS it not time we talked about the label used to define Jersey? Because language matters. Labels shape perception. And perception influences. And right now, Jersey is still wearing an ill-fitting constitutional hand-me-down: “Crown...
US research vessel to aid Cook Islands’ seabed mineral exploration
Cook Island News
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August 7, 2025
From left, Joshua Kroon, US Department of Commerce’s deputy assistant secretary for textiles, consumer goods, materials, critical minerals and metals. David Gehrenbeck, Chargé d’Affaires US Mission to NZ, Cook Islands, and Niue, Prime Minister...
India, Fiji Discuss Bilateral Ties And Ways To Strengthen Cooperation
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Suva, July 30 (IANS) India and Fiji held the 6th Foreign Office Consultations in Suva on Tuesday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in health, education, capacity building, trade, investment, agriculture,...
French scientists map plankton, the ocean’s mysterious oxygen factories
Modern Ghana
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French scientists are mapping plankton across the Indo-Pacific – using Navy ships to study the microscopic organisms that produce half of Earth's oxygen, feed the ocean and help regulate the planet's carbon. The eight-year mission is charting life...
Honouring the legacy of cultural icon, the late Nancy Kareroa-Yorke
Cook Island News
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August 9, 2025
Nancy Kareroa-Yorke (far left) with some of her students. Next to her is one of her students, who joined the group at the age of seven. The young dancer is now 23 years old. “Her (Nancy's) legacy lives on in her young dancers.” 25080615 A...
Fiji welcomes breakthroughdeal on South Pacific Albacore management
Pacific News Service
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Fiji’s Minister for Fisheries, Alitia Bainivalu, has welcomed a major regional breakthrough on the sustainable management of South Pacific Albacore, calling it a “historic milestone” for the country’s tuna industry. “This is a landmark...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
FBI Opens New Attaché Office in New Zealand
Texas Border Business
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August 8, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel delivers remarks at the opening on July 31, 2025, of the Bureau’s newest law enforcement attaché office in Wellington, New Zealand. Image: Courtesy of FBITexas Border Business Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
With Five Eyes on China, FBI Bulks Up in New Zealand
Consortium News
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August 7, 2025
Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency’s Wellington operation to “counter the CCP” as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific. Demonstrators in Aukland on Saturday protest against the F.B.I. expanding its...
Pacific Tourism Organisation and Vanuatu Tourism Organisation Release 2024 Visitor Data to Drive Tourism Growth
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 22, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with the Vanuatu Tourism Office (VTO) and with support from the Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics, is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 International Visitor Survey (IVS) Report—an...
Community participation celebrated at Te Maeva Nui awards ceremony
Cook Island News
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August 6, 2025
Oire Nikao celebrating in joy as they won A grade category for the imene tuki event, an unexpected win for the team. TEITIMOANA TAIRI/25080524 The closing ceremony and awards of Te Maeva Nui 2025 featured a variety of prize presentations. The...
Pacific Tourism Organisation Releases Tourism Data Reports in Cooperation with Tourism Solomons
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 22, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with Tourism Solomons and with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture (MTC) and the Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO), released the completed 2024 International...