PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

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


Friday, May 9, 2008

PNG’s Somare Seeks To Stop Probe Into His Finances
Charged with failure to file yearly financial reports

Northwest Airlines To Double Saipan-Tokyo Flights
Additional 60,000 visitors a year anticipated

Fiji Paramount Chiefs To Fight Bainimarama At UN
"Our rights have been taken away"

Bougainville Audit Shows $9.6 Million Missing
Unaccounted discrepancy in government records

Saipan Ratepayers Shocked By Doubled Rates
Hard pressed residents turn off appliances

New Budget Airline Seeks License In Cook Islands
Kia Orana Air would compete with Air Rarotonga

Digicel Launches Mobile Phone Service In Nukualofa
The newcomer bought out Tonfon communications

New Mobile Phone Firm To Compete In French Polynesia
Mara Telecom to launch at year’s end

Cook Isles’ Manihiki Atoll Gets High Speed Internet
Follows Aitutaki and Atiu with access to broadband

Bougainville’s Caterets Slowly Slipping Away
Residents of low atolls struggle with rising tide

Fiji Appoints First Female To Security Council
Jiko Luveni named Interim Minister forWwomen

French Polynesia Hotel Occupancy Falls To 47 Percent
Overseas visitors slip 9 percent in first quarter

American Samoa Court Decides On Chiefly Title
Rules Te’o Fuavai best qualified

New Hotel Hopes To Stir Tourism In Malaita
Ten-room Rarasu Motel opens in Auki

Crocodile Kills Man In Solomon Islands
Twelfth croc destroyed in past two weeks

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