PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

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


Thursday, May 1, 2008

U.S. Congress Passes Controversial Immigration Bill
Measure goes to President for signature

Chaudhry Visits Ancestral Home In India
Fiji Minister leads delegation to India

Fiji Bio Fuel Company Tests Coconut Oil Mix
Product is 80 percent coconut oil, 20 percent diesel

Tonga King’s China Visit Yields $6 Million Support
Tupou V meets with President Hu Jintao

Top PNG Official Terminated For Fifth Time
Transparency group applauds action

Chinese Firms To Bid On Low Cost Housing In Fiji
Projects to cost $37 million

Workers Anxious To Return To Russell Plantation
Plantation was Solomons’ leading copra producer

PNG’s Gulf Province Out To Revive Copra Industry
Gulf Province called agricultural "sleeping giant"

Princess Cruise Ship To Withdraw From Tahiti
Declining U.S. Dollar, instability cited

American Samoa To Get $20 Million ‘Stimulus’
Residents to get rebates from U.S. Treasury

Tonga To Send 50 Students To Pago Pago Festival
Melanesian, Polynesian cultures to share spotlight

CNMI Included In U.S. Sex Trafficking Study
Girls from FSM, Guam become victims

PNG Kina Continues To Gain On U.S. Dollar
Australian Dollar also up against US currency

Remote Pukapuka Island Plans To Build Hostel
Island in the Northern Cook Islands group

China Donates $49,000 To Tonga Schools, Agriculture
Chinese experts to be in Tonga for two years

Sheraton Fiji Resort Plans $22 Million Upgrade
Hotel to close from May 1 to November

Fiji Resort To Lay Off 50 Workers
Low occupancy, increased operating costs

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