On Air Highlights
Archive for January, 2012
30 January 2012
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New Zealand’s Te Papa Museum in Wellington has welcomed the return of twenty Toi Moko, mummified tattoed Maori heads, formerly held in French institutions.
After years of red tape, the French parliament passed a law in late 2010 which paved the way for the restitution to New Zealand of all Maori heads held in France, acknowledging their cultural and spiritual significance to Maori people and New Zealand.
30 January 2012
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The soldiers involved in last week’s failed mutiny in Papua New Guinea have surrendered their weapons.
30 January 2012
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Relief agencies in Fiji say more rain is is expected across the country this week and the worst may not be over for communites struggling to recover from floods.
30 January 2012
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Papua New Guinea’s national cricket team’s recent victory over a Melbourne club is the latest indication that the sport is on the ascendancy in the rugby mad country.
30 January 2012
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Authorities in southern China are still trying to control a toxic chemical spillage from a factory that has affected water supplies for a city of nearly 4,000,000 people.
30 January 2012
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PNG’s only woman politician and Somare supporter, Dame Carol Kidu is upset by Thursday’s failed military mutiny but as other Somare supporters continue their boycott of Parliament Dame Carol is planning on forming a one-woman opposition in Parliament.
30 January 2012
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Twitter’s announcement that it will restrict tweets if asked by certain countries doesn’t mean an end to democratic protests according to a social media analyst.
27 January 2012
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A Japanese researcher partly-based in the United States has been forced to suspend his studies into an airborne version on the H5N1 bird flu virus over concerns that his findings could be used by bioterrorists.
27 January 2012
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Samoa’s prime minister doesn’t believe scheduled election in Fiji in two years time will actually happen.
27 January 2012
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Papua New Guinea’s cricket team may be racked 19th in the world. But they’re formidable enough for a Melbourne club to fortify its team with outsiders, ahead of a charity match this weekend.
