Pacific Beat Program for 16 May 2011
Ratu Tevita Mara lashes out at Bainimarama regime
Fiji's interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, says he will try to extradite a senior military commander who has fled to Tonga.
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Tonga says Mara pickup was a simple maritime rescue
The Tongan government insists its navy picked up Ratu Tevita Mara as a simple maritime rescue mission, not as part of a deliberate plot.
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Was Tongan King behind rescue of Mara?
A Tongan political scientist believes Tonga's King George Tupou V was probably involved in the decision to bring Ratu Tevita Mara to Tonga.
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Fiji faces difficulty in extraditing Tevita Mara says academic
So what is the legal position on Ratu Tevita Mara being taken from Fiji to Tonga aboard a Tongan naval patrol boat?
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Seach for 9 missing at sea in Kiribati called off.
The search for the six young people missing at sea for more than a week in Kiribati has been called off.
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PNG AG wants nationals involved in resources boom
Papua New Guinea Attorney General, Sir Arnold Ahmet has used his keynote address to the PNG - Australia Business Forum to put government agencies and resource companies on notice.
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Loggers reject Australia's proposed law against illegal logging
Forestry groups in PNG say a draft Australian bill to prevent illegal log imports will cause significant harm to PNG's economy.
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No tsunami warning after PNG deep sea quake
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck beneath the sea off Papua New Guinea prompting a local tsunami notice from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
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Parliamentary test for re-instated Vanuatu government
Support for Vanuatu's re-instated Prime Minister, Sato Kilman will be tested in Parliament on Friday.
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Sato Kilman returns as Vanuatu's prime minister
Sato Kilman is once again the prime minister of Vanuatu after a court decision brought about yet another change of government.
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Amnesty rates Pacific human rights record
Amnesty International has delivered its annual report on human rights throughout the world, and many Pacific Island nations do not even get a mention in the index in the 400 page report.
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War of words eruptds over Hao atoll clean up
In French Polynesia, a debate has flared up on the use of local workers to clean up parts of the nuclear-affected Hao atoll.
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Boom sees record numbers at PNG Australia Business Forum
The PNG Australia Business Forum - the premier business event linking the two countries - gets underway in Madang this morning.
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Plan to stop alcohol-fuelled violence in Northern Territory
The dry season has begun in Northern Australia, bringing sunny days, cooler nights and a sharp rise in the number of people living rough.
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Planning already underway for 2013 Arafua Games
They'll all over for another two years.
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Lack of money to limit some Pacific Games teams
With the Pacifici Games in New Caledonia just months away more countries have annouced details of their teams.
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European club rugby round up
Northampton Saints' Tom Wood has been named Union player of the season.
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PNG pushing to become leading fish processing nation
Papua New Guinea's is confident it has a strategy to drive some of the big Asian fish canneries out of business and bring the jobs and revenue back to the Pacific.
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