Pacific Waves

A water supply project on a Vanuatu island is now providing safe water to 2000 people on the island of Malo.

A prominent New Zealand scientist says a lot more needs to be known about the Cook Islands' deep sea environment before any resource extraction can safely take place.

An Auckland based Pacific publishing house celebrates 10 years of business operation this month and is already looking towards the future.

Demonstrations have been held around the Pacific to mark the anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence when the Morning Star flag was first raised. At a flag Morning Star raising ceremony in Auckland, the New Zealand Green MP Golriz Ghahraman said it was important to maintain vocal about the issue of human rights in Papua; the women and children's crisis centre in Tonga is preparing to trial a 24 hour helpline for victims of family violence as part of its commemoration of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence; a future Pasifika scientist is among a group of New Zealand students about to immerse themselves in traditional Polynesian knowledge in Hawai'i; prominent Australian doctors have asked for permission to go to Manus Island to care for refugees; the Tahiti flag will not fly at next month's Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu.

Demonstrations have been held around the Pacific to mark the anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence when the Morning Star flag was first raised. At a flag Morning Star raising ceremony in Auckland, the New Zealand Green MP Golriz Ghahraman said it was important to maintain vocal about the issue of human rights in Papua.

The women and children's crisis centre in Tonga is preparing to trial a 24 hour helpline for victims of family violence as part of its commemoration of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence.

Prominent Australian doctors have asked for permission to go to Manus Island to care for refugees.

A future Pasifika scientist is among a group of New Zealand students about to immerse themselves in traditional Polynesian knowledge in Hawai'i.

The Tahiti flag will not fly at next month's Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu.

Prominent Australian doctors have asked for permission to go to Manus Island to care for refugees; Fiji police appeal to parents to keep their children safe over the school holiday period after the deaths of four children last week; Civil society organisations working with survivors of gender-based violence in the Pacific are urging police in the region to apply zero tolerance approaches to gender based violence; The President of Bougainville, John Momis, says he will want answers from the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill when they meet next month; the Tahiti flag will not fly at next month's Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu