On Air Highlights
English for the Pacific
22 February 2012
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Papua New Guinea and Australia have signed an agreement on zero tolerance to fraud in Australia’s aid program to PNG.
22 February 2012
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Maketi Ples ( market place) is an annual exhibition organised by the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission at the Global Gallery in Sydney. It showcases the diversity and creativity of Pacific communities.
22 February 2012
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The Solomon Islands Health Ministry has announced that the Pacific Arts Festival Village in Honiara will be a smoke-free zone.
21 February 2012
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Today marks the first anniversary of the deadly Christchurch earthquake which claimed the lives of 185 people.
21 February 2012
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The Central Magistrates Court in Honiara has today convicted a member of parliament for conversion.
20 February 2012
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A Papua New Guinea based Civil Society group is looking for public support to try and force governments to seriously reconsider the push to exploit potential underwater mineral resources through seabed mining.
20 February 2012
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East Timor’s Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao says he will stand for re-election in June.
20 February 2012
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Emerging Pacific artists from New Zealand examine the Western romantic idea of Pacific paradise in The Anatomy of Paradise. The exhibition now showing at Auckland Artstation challenges well entrenched stereotypes and artistic representation of the South Pacific and explores modern Pacific identity.
20 February 2012
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A growing number of police units in Pacific countries are adopting new ‘suppression’ weapons like spray devices and rubber bullets.
19 February 2012
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An article in the New Zealand Herald over the weekend suggests that New Zealand had the opportunity to prevent the 2006 coup in Fiji but let it pass.
