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Michael Field, Pacific journalist
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Pacific news
Fiji paddles own canoe: Bainimarama Fiji military coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama has defied the Pacific Forum and said his nation will go it alone.
Overseas patients put lives at risk by cheating Overseas visitors using Kiwi relatives' names to get free emergency hospital care are putting themselves in mortal danger.
Cops fire in air as Solomons mob tries to free suspect A New Zealand policeman and an Australian colleague fired warning shots at rock-throwing Solomon Islands tribesmen who tried to free a suspected multiple murderer.
Opinion: Tokelau's Falani Aukuso dies
Stick with Solomon Islands peacekeeping - study A leading American political philosopher and economist is warning that a peace-keeping mission to the Solomon Islands - which includes nearly 100 New Zealand soldiers and police - cannot end any time in the foreseeable future because of social conditions there. Read the full study by Francis Fukuyama
Tonga's new king renounces powers, defends his behaviour Tonga's new King George Tupou V has voluntarily surrendered most of his power and in an unusually worded statement claimed he had been trying to persuade his father to do the same before his death.
Samoa drivers move to the left Samoa has named the day it will switch from driving on the right hand side of the road to the left.
Bainimarama assails Clark, denies sacking Chaudhry Fiji military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama has denied that he has sacked his finance minister and in remarks aimed at New Zealand, claimed Prime Minister Helen Clark was backing Mahendra Chaudhry as next prime minister Bainimarama stages water coup July 24, 2008
Bainimarama finally cancels elections Fiji military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama has finally backed out on his promise to hold general elections by next March.
Come back Bill, Fiji declares war Fiji's military regime has just fired a shot at Microsoft's Bill Gates, hours after he walked out of the corporation he founded. The regime is outraged by IT media reports that Microsoft was developing an operating system called "Windows Fiji".
Fiji claims NZ diplomat interfering A key official in Fiji's coup regime claims she has email written by a senior New Zealand diplomat showing secret interference in Fiji's internal affairs
Cook Island police are searching for a New Zealand undertaker who sparked coup fears in the normally dreamy isles by persuading traditional chiefs to sign up with a shadowy group of Americans to trade manganese nodule futures on a non-existent market.
Pope Benedict IX has given the Fiji coup an over-welming endorsement with a warm greeting to coup leader Voreqe Bainimarma
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