Index: April 1, 2003


Cover

Cover Story


Australian Dilemma: How To Avert Downward Spiral?

If it fails, the alternative is frightening

Palau Looks Ahead

Palau Enjoys Modest Success In Key Niches

PNG On The Brink?

How a damning report is rocking the country and stirring uproar in parliament

Features


Analysis
Chuuk Is Broke

Neglect And Incompetence Have Bankrupted Chuuk State

Aviation
Polynesian's Niue Service Doing Well

Airline wants to be ‘significant regional carrier’

Briefs
Business



Briefs
Government



Briefs
People



Business
Thriving Taro Export Business Under Threat

Mites intercepted in NZ could jeopardise trade

Business
United States, Region Extend Fish Deal

US will now pay US$21m a year

Business
Why Film Making Is Not Taking Off In PNG

Funding is number one problem identified

Culture
Life In My Neighborhood

Island Students Share Their Lives Through Art

Defence
Regional Forces Ready To Help PNG In Its UN Role

But nation is still making up its mind

Environment
Idealism Times Three

Dynamic Conservation Group Makes It Mark in Palau

Environment
Respect Traditional Ways



Environment
Tidy Rubbish

Japanese Technology Transforms Samoa's Dump

Film
Samoa's Savage Symbols

A New Zealand Film Examines What It Means To Be Samoan And Male In New Zealand

Media
Moala Returns To Tonga To Fight Ban

‘This is a battle for freedom’

Media
New PINA Could Revolutionise Reporting



Pacific Territories
The Cost of Territories

French Demographer Jean-Louis Rallu Does the Numbers

PacTravel
Remembering Tusitala

Robert Louis Stevenson's Memory Lives On In Samoa

Palau
A Defining Moment

An Interview with Palau's President Remengesau

Palau
Old Knowledge For A New Museum

Jane Olkeriil Works to Perserve Palauan Traditions

Palau
Therapeutic Dolphins?

A Palau NGO Serves Visitors And Researchers

PITA Newsletter
Anger Over Blocked VoIP Connections



PITA Newsletter
PITA Gears Up For Fiji AGM



PITA Newsletter
Somare Goes For Partial Privatisation



Politics
FSM’s Leo Falcam Accepts Defeat

Now he wants to take a break, but not for long

Politics
How Tito Won the Presidency Again



Politics
Madang Clamps Down on Illegal Squatters

Province wants more land for new developments

Politics
More Coup Supporters to Face the Music

But could Qarase lose parliamentary majority?

Politics
New President, New Speaker Appointed

Political deadlock now over

Politics
Regional NGO Body in Deep Trouble

Expatriates feature in PIANGO bickering

Politics
So, Who’s Hosting the 2004 Forum?

Niue’s ability to host islands leaders questioned

Politics
Trim Spending and Stop Eating Into Savings

DPM Terepai Maoate warns Cook Islanders

Politics
Tuvalu Braces for a Possible Change

PM Sopoanga without a majority in parliament

Sports
Vili Fehoko



Departments


A China Invitation
 Journalists Should Avoid Being Shanghaied

Briefs - Busines & Politics
 

FedEx and Cyclones
 

Islands Try To Land A World Funding First
 

Letters
 

Pacific Notes
 

Requiem For Nauru
 Hope in Palau and a Chastened Chuuk

Stuff We Like
 

We Say
 

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Whispers
 

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