Regional News May 2012

World No Tobacco Day Takes on 'Big Tobacco'
Thursday 31 May 2012 is World No Tobacco Day and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is adding its voice to the global call for an end to 'tobacco industry interference' - this year's theme -in global and national efforts to control tobacco. The focus is on exposing and countering the tobacco industry's blatant and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). Jeanie McKenzie,... more
Improving Education and Climate Change Adaptation Across the Pacific
Australia and SPC: committed to improving education and climate change adaptation across the Pacific The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Director-General, Dr Jimmie Rodgers, has signed several grant agreements with the Government of Australia totalling an estimated AUD 4.44 million. The funds received under these agreements comprise part of the Australian Government's continued support for the work provided by SPC to its member countries. This latest... more
PFF to PNG Police, Soldiers: Hands Off Media
PFF Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS -- PNG Police force officers and soldiers who ordered local journalists out of the Papua New Guinea Supreme court yesterday afternoon and forced others to delete images and recordings must face police investigation themselves, says regional media watchdog the Pacific Freedom Forum, PFF. Just hours after PFF released a statement urging political leaders to allow media to do their work, deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah led a police... more
Late Cooks PM a Free Press Leader: PFF
PFF Rarotonga, COOK ISLANDS-- Members of the Pacific Freedom Forum join the tributes this month to a former prime minister of the Cook Islands. Sir Geoffrey, who privatised state media and initiated regular press briefings during his leadership, died on May 8 after a short illness. He was 71. Widely respected as a gifted orator whatever the setting, Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry started his first term in 1989 by introducing freedoms of the press. Under his... more
SG SLADE: Pacific Cannot Remain Isolated from Asia
Pacific countries cannot be left isolated from regional economic integration initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. This was the central message delivered by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, at the 68th Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) currently underway in... more
Accessing China's Markets for Food and Timber
French Polynesia's Bio Fetia Completes PGS Handbook
Pacific Islands Join Other SIDS in Supporting the Sustainable Energy for All initiative
Federated States of Micronesia to Access USD4million for Solar Project
Call for Sustainability in Pacific Education Sector
Cook Islands Grows Green Through Public-Private Partnership
Law Enforcement Agencies Strengthen Information Management and Sharing
Pacific Islander Wins International Award for Turtle Conservation
Niue Chamber of Commerce Optimistic about Future of Private Sector
IMO and SPC Focus on Safe Transportation of Dangerous Goods and Bulk Cargoes by Sea
WHO Donates Incubators, Drug Refrigerator for Children's Ward in Kiribati
Third Visit of the MCG on Fiji Concludes in Suva
Nauru Women Seek Opportunities for Economic Empowerment
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Voter registration
By STEVE BANI Vura Heights, East Honiara
Call to Reduce Common Nuisance in Honiara.
By GEOFFREY MAURIASI USP, Lacuala Campus, Fiji
Anti Corruption Bill
By CHARLES KOULI Gizo, Western Province

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