Pacific Waves

The Cook Islands environmental group Te Ipukarea is furious the government has gone ahead and formalised a fishing deal with the European Union.

Out of season high tides damage seawalls and flood backyards in the Marshall Islands.

Amnesty International says New Zealanders want this country to speak out of Nauru detention camps abuses; an academic specialising in West Papua says Pacific Islands peoples are taking the lead on issues of decolonisation within the region, and that it's beginning to make an impact on the geopolitic; There are concerns the independence and effectiveness of Tonga's first Anti-Corruption commissioner could be affected by government proposals; Whale song and the ukulele are featured in this weekend's ukulele Festival of Niue; A major national broadband transmission network planned for Papua New Guinea, to be built by Chinese company Huawei, is set to significantly increase the country's connectivity, but there are hopes that PNG is being cautious with the level of expenditure and borrowing that is entailed in entering this arrangement.

Amnesty International says most New Zealanders want this country to take a stronger stance over Australia's offshore detention camps.

The song of the humpback and the strum of the uke combine to attract visitors to Niue.

An academic specialising in West Papua says Pacific Islands peoples are taking the lead on issues of decolonisation within the region, and that it's beginning to make an impact on the geopolitic; There are concerns the independence and effectiveness of Tonga's first Anti-Corruption commissioner could be affected by government proposals; A major national broadband transmission network planned for Papua New Guinea, to be built by Chinese company Huawei, is set to significantly increase the country's connectivity, but there are hopes that PNG is being cautious with the level of expenditure and borrowing that is entailed in entering this arrangement; the human rights organisation, Amnesty Internnational, says refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru face a deliberate and systematic regime of neglect and cruelty; Papua New Guinea's struggle to contain sorcery-related violence is being linked to a lack of development for the majority rural population. While PNG scrapped the Sorcery Act three years ago in a move to criminalise such attacks, it's proving hard to change mindsets.

The human rights organisation, Amnesty Internnational, says refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru face a deliberate and systematic regime of neglect and cruelty; Papua New Guinea's struggle to contain sorcery-related violence is being linked to a lack of development for the majority rural population. While PNG scrapped the Sorcery Act three years ago in a move to criminalise such attacks, it's proving hard to change mindsets; Fiji's Director of Public Prosecutions says there was no evidence to justify last month's high profile arrests and detentions; Transparency Solomon Islands says the country has taken a big step back with a court affirming tax free salaries for MPs; and in sport FIFA appoints a former Samoa Football chief executive to be the agency's Chief Women's Football Officer.

An academic specialising in West Papua says Pacific Islands peoples are taking the lead on issues of decolonisation within the region, and that it's beginning to make an impact on geopolitics.

There are concerns the independence and effectiveness of Tonga's first Anti-Corruption commissioner could be affected by government proposals.

A major national broadband transmission network planned for Papua New Guinea, to be built by Chinese company Huawei, is set to significantly increase the country's connectivity, but there are hopes that PNG is being cautious with the level of expenditure and borrowing that is entailed in entering this arrangement.