Pacific Waves for Monday 6 August 2018
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Dateline Pacific evening edition for 6 August 2018
3:05 PM.The Nauru 19 have to wait another month to learn their fates; A stoush over an Illinois food chain appropriating Hawaiian culture; Grave concerns for refugee children who need medical attention in… Read more Audio
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Nauru 19 have six week wait over stay application
3:04 PM.The nineteen Nauru men facing charges over an anti-government protest will have to wait until September 13th to find out if they are free. Read more Audio
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Illinois restaurant chain claims ownership of 'Aloha' & 'Poke'
3:03 PM.An Illinois based restaurant chain is being accused of appropriating Hawaiian culture and legally bullying businesses in the 50th state from using their own language. Read more Audio
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Dateline Pacific morning edtion for 6 August 2018
5:06 AM.An Australian human rights lawyer has grave concerns that continued interference by immigration officials in the medical care of Nauru and Manus detainees could result in the death of a child; Papua… Read more Audio
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Fears a refugee child could die in Australia's offshore camps
5:05 AM.An Australian human rights lawyer has grave concerns that continued interference by immigration officials in the medical care of Nauru and Manus detainees could result in the death of a child. Read more Audio
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Bougainville MP urging date for key meeting to be set
5:04 AM.Papua New Guinea and Bougainville have still to announce a date for a critical meeting to prepare for the autonomous region's referendum on independence. Read more Audio
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Mimika to benefit from Freeport divestment, says Papuan advisor
5:03 AM.A senior advisor on Papuan affairs to the miner Freeport McMoran says the local community will benefit greatly under the company's divestment from its Papua mine. Read more Audio
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Interpreting Manus Island book 'No Friend but the Mountains'
5:02 AM.A book written in detention on Manus Island is art as resistance, the translator says. Read more Audio
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ILO and SPREP encourage promotion of 'green jobs'
5:01 AM.The International Labour Organisation hopes that so-called "green jobs" will be created through results of an agreement it's reached with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
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