PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘i


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Tong Sang Regains French Polynesia Presidency
Flosse Overturned After 52 Days In Office

Fuel Shortage Hits PNG Province After Landslide
Supply Route Cut Off For Months

Vanuatu Puts Prisoners Back In Prison
Release Program Resulted In Crime Wave

Failed PNG Gas Project Costs Country $47 Million
Government Wary Of Future Losses

Palau Bill Would Ban Export Of Migratory Fish
Tuna, Billfish, Sharks Would Be Protected

Cervical Cancer Takes 3,000 Lives Yearly In PNG
Vaccine Not Available In Papua New Guinea

Coral Exporters Plunder Reefs In Fiji
Villagers Earn "Peanuts" In $16 Million Industry

PNG’s Ramu Nickel Mine To Dump Tailings In Sea
Company Says Waste Will Be "Neutralized"

Cruise Ship Might Double As Hotel In Pago Pago
Hawaii Company Proposes Lodging For Pacific Arts Festival

Nine PNG Prisoners On Loose In Goroka
Follows Escape Of 6 Prisoners In Simbu

Fiji Minister At Inaugural Meeting In Turkey
Turkey Seeks To Strengthen Ties

Remote PNG Island Gets Phone Service
Wuvulu Island Comes Out Of "Darkness"

American Guilty Of Smuggling Fiji Iguanas
Faces 20-Year Jail Term

Fiji Reserve Bank Reports $13 Million Profit
Credits Rise In Foreign Reserves

Undersea Quakes Off New Caledonia, Vanuatu
One Quake Measured 7.3 On Richter Scale

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