Darwin, Australia: In Australia's Northern Territory, five men have been arrested after police seized up to $US45,000 worth of kava destined for remote indigenous communities.

Suva, Fiji: Fiji’s administration is standing by its decision not to involve two of the country’s media organisations from consultations on a new media decree expected to come into effect next month.

Honiara, Solomon Islands: Certain officers within the Solomon Islands forestry department are claimed to have been giving out illegal logging licences to Asian companies to export logs, a highly placed source reveals.

Suva, Fiji: Fiji’s administration is pursuing a new strategy to silence critics: using the country's Independent Commission against Corruption (FICAC) to prosecute adversaries for minor misdemeanours.

Suva, Fiji:  Fiji Immigration officers deported 56 people last year under removal orders.

Suva, Fiji: The Fijian administration has terminated the contracts of three recently-appointed magistrates.

Koror, Palau: Palau’s  Associate Justice Kathleen Salii has imposed a total of $156,400 in fines on former President and now Senator  Tommy Remengesau Jr.

Suva, Fiji: School leavers in Fiji will have to wait until 2012 if they wish to try out for the police force.

Pape'ete, French Polynesia: French Polynesia’ veteran politician and former President Gaston Flosse has been ordered back in jail only a week after he was released on bail.

Suva, Fiji: Fiji’s Police Force has uprooted and confiscated $100 million (US$52 million) worth of marijuana plants from 26 farms around Fiji in the last seven days says Police Commissioner Esala Teleni.