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PM in friendly golf before formalities
The Fiji Times
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June 23, 2025
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka hosted a friendly round of golf in Suva on Saturday with leaders and senior officials of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), ahead of Fiji’s formal assumption of the MSG chairmanship. Describing the game as a...
PM Marape arrives in Fiji for the 23rd MSG Leaders’ Summit
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 22, 2025
Prime Minister James Marape has arrived at Nausori International Airport in Suva, Republic of Fiji, Sunday 22nd June 2025, to attend the 23rd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders Summit. He is being accompanied by Papua New Guinea’s Minister...
PM MARAPE ATTENDS MSG LEADERS SUMMIT IN FIJI
PNG Haus Bung
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June 22, 2025
Prime Minister James Marape has travelled to Fiji on Saturday 21st June,2025, to attend the annual Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders’ Summit. His attendance is to reaffirm Papua New Guinea’s continued leadership and commitment to Melanesian...
Felicity Roxburgh Appointed Executive Director Of The New Zealand International Business Forum
Scoop
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 10:07 am Press Release: NZIBF The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Felicity Roxburgh as its new Executive Director. She will officially take up the role on 7 July...
New Caledonian duo set sights on RSHYR
Sail-World
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June 11, 2025
by RSHYR media 11 Jun 00:11 PDT 26 December 2025 When Yann Rigal and Michel Quintin began sailing Double Handed in 2020, Rigal had his doubts. "When Michel called me and said, 'Are you in?' I was like, 'Wow, that's crazy but yes, let's go'," Rigal...
New Caledonian Duo Set Sights on Rolex Sydney Hobart Double Handed Division
Live Sail Die
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June 11, 2025
When Yann Rigal and Michel Quintin began sailing Double Handed in 2020, Rigal had his doubts. “When Michel called me and said, ‘Are you in?’ I was like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy but yes, let’s go’,” Rigal laughed. After completing their first race...
French court releases New Caledonian independence leader
Modern Ghana
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A French court on Thursday freed an independence leader from the overseas territory of New Caledonia who had been detained for a year over deadly riots in 2024. Christian Tein, who is an indigenous Kanak, was charged and incarcerated over the...
Reflections from UNOC3: Reimagining Ocean Governance in the Pacific
IUCN
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Still, I waited for the calm after the conference to collect my thoughts and reflect: Was it all worth it? Did we, as a global ocean community, achieve what we set out to do? And more importantly, what does it mean for our work at the...
Melanesian unity must reflect ancestral bonds, says PNG Prime Minister
NBC PNG
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second left) with other leaders of MSG during summit in Fiji (Image: MSG Secretariat) Prime Minister James Marape has urged Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) member states to deepen their unity by drawing on shared...
Prime Minister Marape reinforces PNG's commitment at MSG
RNZ
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June 23, 2025
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, James Marape, arrived Sunday in Suva, Fiji, to attend the 23rd Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leaders' Summit. Photo: Supplied Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, James Marape, arrived Sunday in Suva, Fiji, to...
Marape praises Macron’s ‘Milestone’ consideration of New Caledonia vote
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 11, 2025
Prime Minister James Marape has welcomed French President His Excellency Emmanuel Macron’s willingness to consider a fourth referendum on New Caledonia’s future. Speaking at the France-Pacific Summit, where he joined other Pacific Island leaders,...
PNG MP Questions Macron Honour Amid New Caledonia Concerns
Papua New Guinea Today
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June 11, 2025
PNG's Hiri-Koiari MP Hon. Keith Iduhu has raised concerns over the naming of a lookout and trail in Central Province after French President Emmanuel Macron, without prior consultation with traditional landowners of Variarata National Park....
Macron talks New Caledonia at Pacific-France summit
RNZ
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June 10, 2025
Photo: Screenshot Présidence de la République française French president Emmanuel Macron chaired a Pacific-France summit on Tuesday, in the margins of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) held in Nice. In his opening speech, the French head of state...
Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast
Asia Pacific Report
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July 2, 2025
Pacific Media Watch In July 1985, Australia’s Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller. Four French agents sailed there on board the Ouvéa, a yacht from Kanaky New Caledonia, after...
New Zealand's role in international half-tonne cocaine seizure
1News
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New Zealand Customs has played an important role in an international operation which led to the seizure of more than half a tonne of cocaine destined for Australian shores, officials confirmed this week. The operation, which ran across April and...
Graduates set to walk the stage at the College of New Caledonia
My Bulkley Lakes Now
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More than 700 graduates will be walking the stage in the College of New Caledonia’s convocation ceremonies. The first ceremony is scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) in Prince George, with the second taking place Tuesday at CNC’s North Cariboo...
French judges order release of New Caledonian independence l...
Modern Ghana
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French investigating magistrates have ordered the release of an independence leader from New Caledonia who was detained for a year over deadly riots in 2024, but he will not be freed immediately after prosecutors appealed the decision. Christian...
More than two tonnes of cocaine worth $800m bound for Australia seized
Sky News Australia
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July 2, 2025
A New Caledonia-based French Navy operation has discovered an enormous amount of cocaine onboard a vessel bound for Australia, with approximately 2.5 tonnes of the drug, worth about $800 million, seized. New Zealand broadcaster RNZ has reported...
Entries rolling in for the Hobie AUS Championships in the West
Mysailing
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July 3, 2025
There is excitement in the air for the Pitts Design and Construction 53rd Australian Hobie Cat National Championships. To be held in Busselton in the South West of Western Australia and hosted by Geographe Bay Yacht Club in December / January. The...
Sub-National Island Jurisdictions Announce Creation of International Coalition to Increase Representation, Access to Climate Finance
Win Media SKN
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June 12, 2025
June 11th, 2025; NICE – Representatives from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) have highlighted the outsized impact their communities are having on global marine conservation efforts, while also suffering from limited representation at...