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Life-threatening disease erupts on Australia's doorstep as urgent travel warning is issued
Daily Mail
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June 10, 2025
Deadly dengue fever outbreaks have been rising amongst Australia's Pacific neighbours, prompting a travel warning for holidaymakers. The Cook Islands declared the most recent outbreak of the disease after 19 cases of the disease, including two...
Over 6 billion people worldwide are exposed to at least one key anti-tobacco measure
Scimex Newsfeed
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June 23, 2025
From: World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new report 23 June 2025, Dublin/Geneva—The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World...
Unknown dangers of deep sea mining
The National
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DEEP sea mining can be done in the domestic ocean boundaries and also at the international waters. The ocean waters know no boundaries and freely flow from one country zone to anther zone. Ocean waters are highly mobile and due to strong current...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
Letter: Seabed mining talkfest- ‘A waste of public money’
Cook Island News
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June 9, 2025
Dear Editor, The 11 people that travelled to Australia to promote a one-sided and biased consultation for the development of seabed mining may have cost Cook Islands taxpayers over $80,000. Probably the only person in the group, who knows and has...
Record Finalist Numbers As Pacific Music Awards Celebrates 21 Years Of Musical Recognition; Awards Announced Last Night
Scoop
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The finalists for the 2025 Pacific Music Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at the Mangere Arts Centre in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s celebration of Pacific music marks the 21st anniversary of the event. Following the...
'Relentless' disease taking more and more lives on Australia's doorstep
9News
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June 10, 2025
Dengue fever outbreaks in the western Pacific and south-east Asia have prompted travel warnings for Australians, but experts are now saying the problem is likely to only get worse. Cook Islands declared an outbreak of the potentially deadly...
The Redaction Action That Sparked A National Reckoning Comes Home
Scoop
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Photo/Supplied Te Wehi Ratana’s story takes centre stage in ration the Queen’s veges following a theatrical act of redaction, resistance, and reclamation, playing to Circa Theatre, Wellington from 16 August – 13 September. Following its 2025...
Rarotonga’s Southern Passages Plan open for public feedback
Cook Island News
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June 14, 2025
The National Environment Service (NES) has officially released the Rarotonga Southern Passages Environmental Management Plan 2025–2028 for public consultation. Pictured is Lydia Sijp, Senior GEF-7 Project Coordinator. MELINA ETCHES/25061325 Te...
The politics, and politicians, of nostalgia
interest.co.nz
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By Chris Trotter* What do politicians do when the present is a mess and the future promises more of the same? Mostly, in these all-too-familiar circumstances, politicians turn for help and solace to the past. They go looking for policies that...
WHO report urges stronger action against global tobacco epidemic
Medical News
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June 23, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress in tobacco control as rising...
Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new report
Pan American Health Organization
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June 23, 2025
Geneva, 23 June 2025 (PAHO) — The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress...
Pacific relationship will ‘remain constant’: Peters
Otago Daily Times
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June 22, 2025
Few people are as well placed to comment on the shifting sands of international politics in the South Pacific as Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who is about to address the Otago Foreign Policy School on that topic. Political editor Mike Houlahan...
Te Ipukarea Society: Questioning the concept of deep seabed mining
Cook Island News
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June 21, 2025
Dr Chris Fleming, an economist from Grifith University in Queensland, Australia, talking at the Deep Ocean Symposium in Rarotonga last year. TIS/25062020 In a recent Time Magazine article, explorer and investor Victor Vescovo asserts that the...
Mitiaro upholds Ngaputoru customs in traditional fire-walk welcome
Cook Island News
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June 21, 2025
Every visiting group coming on the boat have to walk across the fire. TALAIA MIKA/25062023 Mitiaro reaffirmed its deep cultural roots on Thursday with a powerful and symbolic traditional ceremony to welcome a seabed mining exploration team to the...
Dmakeiukl Rangers begin drone training to strengthen conservation efforts in Palau
Island Times
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June 20, 2025
On June 6, rangers from the Dmakeiukl Alliance took part in a hands-on drone training to enhance the monitoring and protection of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in Palau. The training is part of a broader effort to strengthen the rangers’...
Analysis: Tensions and timing test Luxon on first official China visit
RNZ
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June 21, 2025
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is officially welcomed with a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing. Photo: Supplied / Dan Brunskill Analysis - Luck was not on Christopher Luxon's side for his first official trip to China. Even before...
Luxon humiliatingly bows to Xi because Farming interests forced him to
The Daily Blog
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June 22, 2025
What a humiliating trip by Luxon to China, his pathetic squirming to Xi was the most embarrassing moment in NZ foreign affairs. Look at the ridiculous statements Luxon was made to ensure National’s Dairy Interests were sacrosanct… Luxon concludes...
‘Our Ocean is our heritage, our home and our future’
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Copyright: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Monitoring and Governance As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) gets underway in Nice France, Samoa’s Prime...
Letter: New Zealand’s ‘bully-boy’ tactics
Cook Island News
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June 20, 2025
Dear Editor, Am I the only one who thinks the bully-boy tactics from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, scaring our people, and destabilising our Government is a little heavy-handed? It’s especially disappointing to see our usually...