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Pacific news in brief for 6 January
6 Jan 2025A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a deadly fireworks explosion in Hawai'i, Tonga's Home Reef Volcano continues to grow.
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Pacific 2025: What is happening?!
6 Jan 2025Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonization plus a 50th birthday party.
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Fiji boxing report expected in two weeks
The Commission of Inquiry team set up to investigate circumstances surrounding the death of the Fiji boxer, Ubayd Haider, hopes to wrap up their work soon.
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More money comes in for Vanuatu after December quake
The British High Commission in Port Vila has given GDP£400,000 to UNICEF Pacific, to support children.
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CNMI indigenous advocate wants birth tourism law reconsidered
6 Jan 2025America's jus soli legal principle means babies born in the CNMI get US citizenship.
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Pacific trio create chart topping hits
6 Jan 2025Rising Pacific music group A.R.T's single, Easy, soared to the top of the Urban Radio Scope chart as the most-played Kiwi song, in late 2024.
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Tonga's new PM won't be in power long enough to achieve much, claims political expert
3 Jan 2025Tonga's new Prime Minister won't be in power long enough to achieve much and is likely to be ousted by his predecessor at the 2025 general election, claims a political expert. Audio
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181 people qualify for Vanuatu election with more names possible, Electoral Commission
4 Jan 2025One-hundred-eighty-one candidates have qualified so far to contest Vanuatu's snap elections, the Vanuatu Electoral Commission says.
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Man charged with rape and sexual assault of Virgin Airlines crew member, Fiji police say
4 Jan 2025A man has been charged with the rape and sexual assault of a Virgin Airlines flight crew member during New Year's Eve celebrations in Fiji.
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Man dies in shark attack in New Caledonia
4 Jan 2025A man has died following a shark attack off the small town of Koumac, on New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre.
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Is PNG ready for its biggest year yet?
3 Jan 2025As Papua New Guinea prepares to mark 50 years of independence from Australia in 2025, the government faces a host of other matters that need to be addressed, urgently. Audio
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Study shows migration effect on Pasifika mental health
3 Jan 2025A new study has shown Pasifika living in Aotearoa have higher psychological distress rates compared to those living in their homelands.
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