PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

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


Tuesday, April 22, 2008

PNG Prime Minister End Inquiry Into Missing Funds
Calls For Somare Resignation

New Stores Rise From Ashes Of Honiara Riot
Supermarket, Storefront Take Shape

Compensation Demand Stalls PNG Highway Repair
Villagers Want $3.7 Million

Fiji Economy Contracts Four Percent In 2007
Low Sugar Output Hurt

Defects Found In Palau’s $150 Million ‘Compact Road’
Long History Of Problems

World Bank To Create PNG Telecom Fund
Would Subsidize Telecom In Rural Areas

World Bank Denies Support For Digicel PNG
$40 Million Investment "Strictly Commercial"

Fiji’s New Election Supervisor Was Disbarred
Auckland Lawyer Calls 1988 Action ‘Irrelevant’

Tongan Troops On Baghdad Mission
Provide Security At Al Faw Palace

New Caledonia Union Rioters Get Jail Terms
23 Guilty In Clashes With Noumea Police

Tonga Broadcaster Barred From News Conferences
New Crackdown On Reporters

Solomons’ Malaita Village Gets Fishing Boats
Government Minister Provided Equipment

India Life Insurance Company Marks Gains In Fiji
42,000 Customers Push Premiums To $18 Million

IMF Says Tongan Economy On Mend
But Recovery Remains Fragile

PNG’s Tavurvur Volcano Spews Magma, Gas
Thick Cloud Rising 1.5 Kilometers

Air Niugini To Buy Two Mid-Range Aircraft
Boeing 787-800s To Boost International Service

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