Pacific Waves

Refugees stuck in Pohnpei in "inhumane" conditions; Virgin Australia and the Samoa Govt part company; Sport: Tongan Olympic Committee not convinced by Pacific Games withdrawal; NGO says Fiji Govt's Clause 24 legislation is punitive; Modernised Tokelau schools seeing results.

Four Nepalese men are stuck on a rickety boat in the Federated States of Micronesia nearly a year after they were given refugee status.

NGO says Fiji Govt's Clause 24 legislation is punitive; Modernised Tokelau schools seeing results; Situation tense in Solomons over mining; Delegates to a Pacific search and rescue conference underway in Auckland are looking for more effective ways of raising safety awareness; Niue's premier Sir Toke Talagi plans to get more ideas on developing the island from Singapore.

A Fiji civil society group is angry that it was not allowed to present its full submission during consultations on a controversial move by the government.

An education expert from New Zealand says Tokelau children's English, Tokelauan and maths are improving after a change in teaching style on the atolls.

Situation tense in Solomons over mining; 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; Niue's premier Sir Toke Talagi plans to get more ideas on developing the island from Singapore; Norfolk Island a year on from it being stripped of its autonomy and the legislature replaced by a regional council; The University of the South Pacific will today (Tuesday 23-05-2017) open its new campus in the Marshall Islands.

Residents of Santa Cruz in Solomon Islands Temotu province are furious at the remarks by a provincial MP and former premier saying only outsiders were opposed to mining in the province.

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.

Niue's premier Sir Toke Talagi plans to get more ideas on developing the island from Singapore.

Norfolk Island a year on from it being stripped of its autonomy and the legislature replaced by a regional council; The University of the South Pacific will today (Tuesday 23-05-2017) open its new campus in the Marshall Islands; Tonga government accused of power grab; Opponents of mining in Temotu labeled outsiders; Pacific tales told at the annual writers festival in Auckland.