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Foreign worker fees questioned in Cook Islands
Cook Islands foreign affairs and immigration officials summoned to Parliament to explain foreign worker fees.
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PNG's main bank buys into Cambodian finance business
Papua New Guinea's Bank South Pacific has established a presence in Cambodia.
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Cook Island music legend lands prestigious award
A music legend in the Cook Islands will be acknowledged at this year's Pacific Music Awards in Auckland.
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The first Polyfest event in Australia ready for 2018
The first Polyfest event celebrating Indigenous and Pacific cultures through dance forms is set for Australia in 2018. Audio
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Sport: Cook Islands say door open to former coach
Ten months after terminating his contract, the Cook Islands Rugby Union says they are open to the idea of former national captain and coach Stan Wright returning to the fold.
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Cooks ministries to be questioned over increased fees
Fees being charged by two Cook Islands government ministries will come under the scrutiny of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee tomorrow morning.
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Voyaging canoe legend dies in Hawaii
A co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Ben Finney, has died.
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Dateline Pacific evening edition for 25 May 2017
Audio 25 May 2017Feeling the pinch with manpower and capacity shortcomings as it confronts major security challenges, Papua New Guinea's police force has sought outside help to fulfil its role enforcing law and order… Audio
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Electricity system approaches toughest season
Low rainfall levels have starved South Island hydro lakes of water. Will there be an electricity supply crisis this winter?
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Dateline Pacific morning edition for 25 May 2017
Amnesty International says NZ should resettle regugees detained by Australia on Nauru and Manus Island; Warning for Tonga over control of key appointments; Cook Islands authorities looking at short… Audio
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Improving Rarotonga's Muri lagoon
Authorities in the Cook Islands are zeroing in on a range of short term measures to try and improve the quality of Rarotonga's Muri lagoon. Audio
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World in Sport for 24 May 2017
The Pacific Games Council will hold an emergency meeting this week about the 2019 Pacific Games, Vanuatu debut at the Under 20 Football World Cup, Fiji sevens coach Gareth Baber reflects on his first… Audio
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Refugees stuck in Pohnpei in 'inhumane' conditions
Four Nepalese men are stuck on a rickety boat in the Federated States of Micronesia nearly a year after they were given refugee status. Audio
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Refugees under 'arbitrary detention' in Micronesia
Four Nepalese men are stuck on a rickety boat in Micronesia nearly a year after they were given refugee status.
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Fire in her belly, Cook Islands artist Miria George
New Zealand's only contemporary indigenous theatre and dance festival, Kia Mau, returns to the capital on Friday 2nd June with fire in its belly. Miria George (Te Arawa; Ngati Awa; Rarotonga & Atiu… Audio
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Traditional Cooks artwork lost during trip of a lifetime gone sour
A group of Cook Islands grandmothers who travelled to London to display their wall hangings ended up having to forfeit their artworks and scrounge for meals after the sister of cabinet minister Alfred…
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Traditional artwork lost during trip of a lifetime gone sour
A group of grandmothers had to forfeit the artworks they'd travelled to London to display, after a cabinet minister's sister broke her commitment to pay their bills, they say.
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Tradewinds for 23 May 2017
Tension over mining plans in Solomon Islands Temotu province; Samoa's joint venture with Virgin Airlines is reviewed; Cook Islands gets money for seabed mining potential; Pacific cuisine advances on… Audio
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Pacific delegates gather to discuss search and rescue
Delegates to a Pacific search and rescue conference underway in Auckland are looking for more effective ways of raising safety awareness among people using the world's biggest ocean. Audio
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Sport: Cooks rugby can't afford to pick overseas players
The Cook Islands Rugby Union says financial constraints mean they will have to pick mostly local players for the Oceania Cup match against Tahiti in August.
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Nashville Babylon
On this week's show Mark plays new music from John Moreland and Kendall Elise, a classic gunfighter ballad from Marty Robbins, blues from Big Joe Turner and twisted Kiwiana from Delaney Davidson… Audio
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Dateline Pacific evening edition for 22 May 2017
Audio 22 May 2017Tonga government accused of power grab; Opponents of mining in Temotu labeled outsiders; Pacific tales told at the annual writers festival in Auckland; A plan for floating islands in French Polynesia… Audio
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Cooks implement short-term measures to improve Muri lagoon
Authorities in the Cook Islands are zeroing in on a range of short-term measures to try and improve the quality of Rarotonga's Muri lagoon.
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Mercury plummets across NZ
The country has woken to a chilly Monday morning, below -6°C in some places, and unsettled weather to come later in the week. Audio
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Mining company paying holding rights for Cooks seabed area
The Cook Islands government has been earning $US8000 a month as part of a five-year deal with a US mining company to hold an area of seabed for potential mining.
