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Pacific Waves for Tuesday 30 May 2017
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Dateline Pacific evening edition for 30 May 2017
3:06 PM.The Pacific Games Council offers an olive branch to the Tonga government; a planned floating community in French Polynesia experiments with a new social order; a push for the rights of coastal… Read more Audio
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Pacific Games Council offers olive branch to Tonga government
3:05 PM.The Tonga government has been given a month to reconsider its decision to withdraw its support for hosting the 2019 Pacific Games. Read more Audio
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French Polynesian island experiments with new social order
3:04 PM.The floating island planned for French Polynesia is a chance to tackle global warming without politicians, according to a scholar working on the project. Read more Audio
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Dateline Pacific morning edition for 30 May 2017
5:04 AM.Push for focus on rights of coastal communities at UN's Oceans' Conference; Bougainville is taking Papua New Guinea to court over the non-payment of funds; lawyer in the Federated States of Micronesia… Read more Audio
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Rights of coastal communities important
5:03 AM.When delegates sit down next week in New York to consider how to ensure the sustainability of the world's oceans there will be a strong Pacific push to focus on the rights of coastal communities. Read more Audio
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Bougainville taking PNG to court for funds
5:02 AM.Bougainville's government says it's taking the Papua New Guinea government to the Supreme Court over the non-payment of funds to the autonomous region. Read more Audio
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Lengthy detention for Nepali refugees in FSM
5:01 AM.A lawyer in the Federated States of Micronesia says she she'll go ahead with legal action to try and set free four Nepali refugees detained in Pohnpei. Read more Audio