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New Zealand’s ‘true agenda’ for aid faces probe

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Auckland, New Zealand: As the Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s controversial reviews into NZAid are completed over the next month, questions are being raised over the true agenda of New Zealand work in the Pacific.

Kiribati tells its story at the MDG Meeting

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Kiribati is hoping for the best and preparing for the worst in relation to the effects of climate change that affecting their country.
 

Melanesian countries make plan of action against corruption

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Suva, Fiji: Melanesian countries have made significant progress in identifying priorities for action to implement the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) to fight corruption

Condoms make AIDS worse, the Pope says

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Rome, Italy: The  Pope courted further controversy on his first trip to Africa today by declaring that condoms were not a solution to the AIDS epidemic - but were instead part of the problem.

Time running out for the Pacific to achieve MDG goals by 2015

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Nadi, Fiji: “The Pacific region still has a lengthy and urgent MDG agenda and time is running out to achieve these goals by 2015.

Discord likely over ratifying women's rights pact

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A global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago has a better-than-ever chance for U.S.

International Women's Day: The sheer challenge of being a woman in Papua New Guinea

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In the very week that Christina Kewa’s first book, “Being a Woman in Papua New Guinea: From Grass Skirts and Ashes to Education and Global Changes” was launched in Mount Hagen, PNG,

Pacific will not escape global downturn

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The Pacific despite its isolation from major international markets will not escape the impacts of the global financial downturn.

Island taps ocean for renewable energy

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Taipei, Taiwan: With oil reserves dwindling, governments around the world have been scrambling to find sources of renewable energy.

WHO is alarmed over emergence of drug-resistant malaria in Asia

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Malaria parasites are carried and spread by mosquitoes. The disease infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and causes one million deaths annually.

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