Pacific Waves

Volcanic haze from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has reached the Northern Marianas and Guam, over 6,000 kilometres away, affecting visibilty there.

A Kanak journalist Andre Qaeaw says this year's referendum on independence from France is a chance to open a new page on New Caledonia's past.

Cook Islands Party vying for a third term in power; Samoan Language Week focuses on keeping youth connected; Participation in Pacific arts in NZ hits record levels; Volcanic haze from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano reaches the Northern Marianas and Guam, over 6,000 kilometres away; And a Kanak journalist says this year's referendum on independence from France is a chance to open a new page on New Caledonia's past.

MP calls for PNG government to lift its game over Bougainville; Double pronged approach to political parity by Vanuatu women; Questions over new Indonesian terror law's implications for Papua; Post cyclone aid is sent from Auckland to help a major Tongan business; Samoan language week kicks off in New Zealand.

The Bougainville South MP and deputy opposition leader in the Papua New Guinea parliament, Timothy Masiu, says as the region's referendum vote draws closer the PNG government has to do more to help the process.

Women in Vanuatu are petitioning the government for even gender representation in parliament through a fifty per cent quota system and have also launched a new party in their bid for equality.

One of the experts speaking at this week's New Zealand Emergency Management Conference has had a lot of experience helping Fiji improve its systems to cope with disaster; Pacific Environment Journalist Network seen as a positive development for the region's journalists; MP calls for PNG government to lift its game over Bougainville; Double pronged approach to political parity by Vanuatu women; Questions over new Indonesian terror law's implications for Papua; Post cyclone aid is sent from Auckland to help a major Tongan business; Samoan language week kicks off in New Zealand.

One of the experts speaking at this week's New Zealand Emergency Management Conference has had a lot of experience helping Fiji improve its systems to cope with disaster.

Pacific Environment Journalist Network seen as a positive development for the region's journalists.

A Fiji opposition leader is charged by anti-corruption officials; what will ratifying the Bougainville referendum result involve?; Fiji embraces seasonal work opportunities; an alert for infectious disease outbreak on Vanuatu's Ambae; chocolate from Solomons cacao wins an international award; and, the Wan Papua Warriors eye a Northern Hemisphere debut.