Pacific Magazine Daily News
Tuesday: May 13, 2008
Australia, Pacific Region
The Australian government will spend A$54 (US$50) million over four years on what it’s calling the “Pacific Land Program”—and effort to...
Kiribati, New Zealand
(Radio Australia)
The head of the New Zealand immigration service has resigned amid controversy over the way she helped relatives from Kiribati attain...
United States of America
(Media release)
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has named Douglas W. Domenech to be Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs....
Fiji
Commonwealth Ministers have declared concern over the slow pace of election preparations in Fiji, and pressures on media and the judiciary at a meeting in...
Australia, Japan
(Sydney Morning Herald)Qantas is hinting it may have its discount carrier Jetstar operate flights between Australia and Japan, the Sydney Morning Herald...
Fiji
(Fiji Live)
The tiny island of Rotuma, a Polynesian outlier of Fiji, has entered the modern age with its first internet cafe, the on-line news service Fiji...
Australia, Fiji
(Fiji Times)Fiji's top tourism official says the country needs to do more to ensure the safety of visitors in the wake of two recent attacks, the Fiji Times...
Northern Mariana Islands
(Saipan Tribune)Northern Marianas Gov. Benigno Fitial has assumed control of the autonomous Commonwealth Ports Authority to stave off the agency defaulting on a...
Guam
(Pacific Daily News)The pump price for unleaded regular gasoline on Guam has reached $4.31 a gallon, the Pacific Daily News reports.The latest price rise of...
Guam
(Pacific Daily News)The U.S. military buildup on Guam, led by 8,000 U.S. Marines, will mean tax revenues on some $300,000 million in armed forces payroll for...
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