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Pacific news in brief for January 12

RNZ 12 Jan 2024
The Supreme Court said Tonga's Legislative Assembly is empowered under its own rules to deal with any alleged breaches. Vanuatu - ships. 50 cruise ships are expected to visit Vanuatu in the next few months.
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Australia signs security agreement with Papua New Guinea

RNZ 07 Dec 2023
As China has sought to boost its security presence in the Pacific Islands, signing deals to equip and train police in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, where it is a large infrastructure lender, Australia ...
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Australia, Papua New Guinea ink agreement

Taipei Times 07 Dec 2023
As China has sought to boost its security presence in the Pacific islands, signing deals to equip and train police in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, where it is a large infrastructure lender, Australia ...
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Australia and Papua New Guinea sign ‘historic’ security pact

Al Jazeera 07 Dec 2023
China has sought to boost its security presence in the Pacific Islands, signing deals to equip and train police in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, raising concerns in the US and in Australia, which ...
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Australia, Papua New Guinea sign security agreement, hail close ties

Reuters 07 Dec 2023
As China has sought to boost its security presence in the Pacific Islands, signing deals to equip and train police in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, where it is a large infrastructure lender, Australia ...
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Pacific news in brief for November 27

RNZ 27 Nov 2023
Last year, Australian experts helped Vanuatu deal with a ransomware attack that crippled many of its government departments ... More than 2000 workers and 4000 households in Kiribati, Tonga, and Vanuatu were interviewed in the study.
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Improving Australia, China ties helps Pacific island nations - PNG minister

Reuters 09 Nov 2023
PNG struck a defence cooperation agreement with the United States in May, amid concern by Washington and Canberra over Beijing's security ambitions in the Pacific Islands, where China has policing deals with Solomon Islands and Vanuatu ... ....
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Pacific Islands Forum: What to expect from the region's big political meeting in Rarotonga

RNZ 03 Nov 2023
He also confirmed that the Israel/Gaza war will be on the agenda ... Of the island leaders there is a possibility the prime minister of Vanuatu, Charlot Salwai, will not make it, given the rush in his country to deal with the recovery from Cyclone Lola.
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Pacific news in brief for October 30

RNZ 30 Oct 2023
The deal will expand an existing commercial project by Google in the region to Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials to Preview the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit

The White House 22 Sep 2023
One, I was just curious if there was any comment from you all around Vanuatu, I understand, skipping this event because of some domestic concerns about them drawing closer to the United States and its allies.
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Battling the stigma of mental health across the Pacific

Cook Islands News 13 Sep 2023
Caleb Fotheringham of RNZ reports ... Dr Jimmy Obed, Vanuatu's first and still only psychiatrist, said people continue to deal with the stress caused from the back-to-back intense tropical cyclones that arrived within days of each other in March ... ....
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Vanuatu gets new prime minister amid China-US rivalry

Business Day 04 Sep 2023
SydneyVanuatu’s ... Chair of the Saudi Fund for Development and Saudi Arabia’s minister for tourism, Ahmed al Khateeb, met Kalsakau on Saturday in Vanuatu, signing an airport redevelopment deal.
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Vanuatu parliament elects Sato Kilm

Taipei Times 04 Sep 2023
Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau speaks during a U.N ... Ahmed al Khateeb, chairman of the Saudi Fund for Development and Saudi Arabia’s tourism minister, met Kalsakau on Saturday in Vanuatu, signing an airport redevelopment deal.
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Vanuatu parliament elects Sato Kilman as prime minister amid China-US rivalry in Pacific Islands

Hong Kong Standard 04 Sep 2023
Vanuatu was ... Chairman of the Saudi Fund for Development and Saudi Arabia's Minister for Tourism, Ahmed al Khateeb, met Kalsakau on Saturday in Vanuatu, signing an airport redevelopment deal. .
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Great power politics pulling at Pacific unity

Asiatimes 30 Aug 2023
The no-confidence motion recently raised against Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau over a bilateral security deal with Australia further reflects this trend as lawmakers worry about upsetting ...
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