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Michael Field, Pacific journalist
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Pacific Features
Opinion: Fiji and the Forum - threats and canoes
Our Street: Auckland's multi ethnic theatre Over a year ago National Party leader John Key labelled Auckland's McGehan Close a street of shame. Now, three of its young residents are among exuberant actors in a piece of theatre celebrating the neighbourhood.
No rain on Kiribati parade June 5 2008
It was meant to rain on Auckland's Government House and Kiribati's visiting President Anote Tong would have been delighted had his military welcome been washed out.
NZ and Fiji cited in human trafficking. June 5, 2008
A graphic US Government report on modern slavery has accused New Zealand of being a "destination country" for the trafficking of women for sex from Malaysia, Hong Kong and China.
Dozens gather as Samoan court naming new Malietoa.May 19, 2008
In Tonga a royal title is a right of birth but in Samoa the right to a royal title can only come after years of debate and endless court battles.
Watch Polynesia dance like watching rugby. May 5, 2008
Photographing Polynesian dance is a bit like catching images from a rugby game. Mt Eden born Samoan photographer Evotia Tamua has armed herself with cameras for the last 20 years of Auckland’s Polynesian Festival and produced a book on it, along with another essaying the city’s Pacific people.
Sensational Lapita pottery find in Fiji. April 23, 2008
Just
a short distance from
South Pacific undersea gold rush underway. March 31, 2008
For over a decade New Zealand geologist Cornel de Ronde looked toward the South Pacific and said "there's gold in them thar waters". His prophesy went unnoticed for a while but now serious players with big money here.
Chaudhry and the money to flee Fiji March 18, 2008
It was a muggy Suva afternoon when the world finally saw a haggard Mahendra Chaudhry walk out of Fiji's Parliamentary compound after 56 days as a hostage. On the exact anniversary of becoming Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister, on May 19, 2000, confused ethno-nationalist and now convicted traitor George Speight seized Parliament and took the government prisoner.
Transcript of Supreme Court, Qarase vs Bainimarama
RECORDS OF CIVIL ACTION NO. HBC 60/07 LAISENIA QARASE & OTHERS VS JOSAIA VOREQE BAINIMARAMA & OTHERS HELD IN THE SUPREME COURT ROOM ON WEDNESDAY, 5TH MARCH, 2008 AT 2.40 P.M.
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