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Visiting group Te Mana O Te Rima offers health services to Rarotonga elders
Cook Island News
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September 26, 2024
Te Mana O Te Rima health practitioners’ group from Aotearoa New Zealand visited Te Are Pa Metua. MELINA ETCHES/24092503 Elderly people in Rarotonga will join the world in celebrating the United Nations International Day of Older People on Tuesday...
Pacific Islands focus: deep sea mining, reproductive injustice and a new breast screen campaign
Croakey Health Media
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July 10, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: World leaders are calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining to prevent devastating and irreversible environmental harm. This week, governments are meeting in Jamaica at the 30th Session of the International Seabed...
More investment needed on mental Health across the Pacific, Research finds
Television Niue
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October 2, 2024
The Pro Vice-Chancellor for the faculty of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland-Professor Jemaima Tiatia-Siau was on the island last week to present key findings from her research project on the link of Climate Change and Mental well...
Mark Brown slams New Zealand for its 'patronising approach' over China deal
RNZ
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June 19, 2025
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown Photo: Tiana Haxton Pausing nearly $20 million in development assistance is "patronising" and "inconsistent with modern partnership", Prime Minister Mark Brown has told the Cook Islands parliament. New...
NES investigates ‘illegal’ rubbish burning near Blackrock preschool
Cook Island News
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July 3, 2025
Thursday 3 July 2025 | Written by webmaster | Published in The National Environment Service (NES) is “actively investigating” reports of burning rubbish near the Blackrock ECE school in Nikao, following concerns raised last week about the...
World News | China Irks NZ as Its Influence Spreads in the South Pacific
Latestly
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge
Pacific News Service
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A rollcall of Pacific Island nations have very different views on the release of treated radioactive wastewater. By Derek Grossman Japan’s decision last month to begin discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from its...
China irks NZ as its influence spreads in the South Pacific
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
Eat Pacific Cookbook wins Global Award
Samoa News
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July 9, 2025
LISBON, Portugal — In a celebration of Pacific food, identity, and culture, the Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, Eat Pacific, has been awarded the Best South Pacific Book in the World 2024 at the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards...
Gymnast trades hospital admissions for AIMS Games
SunLive
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September 9, 2024
If it wasn’t for gymnastics – and a small miracle – Chloe Crump reckons she’d still be visiting hospital every couple of months for a chronic lung disease. Instead, she hasn’t been to hospital in a year. And her passion for gymnastics, as...
Apii Nikao to make a splash with water bomb fundraiser
Cook Island News
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July 10, 2025
Beating the heat and the humidity at Avatiu Harbour in 2022. The harbour will host the island’s first-ever freestyle water bomb competition this Friday, July 11, at 3pm at Avatiu Harbour. CAMERON SCOTT/22122332 Apii Nikao is diving into...
Gymnast trades hospital admissions for Zespri Aims Games
The New Zealand Herald
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September 10, 2024
As well as a period of hospital admissions every other month for her lungs, she has a portacath on the side of her diaphragm, and has had around 21 general anaesthetics relating to the illness. Things began to turn two and a half years ago when...
They need to listen and act now: Pacific countries ramp up…
Pacific News Service
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Pacific countries have taken a critical step to finalise their priorities as they ramp up the call for a high-ambition treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. Ahead of the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental...
Online veterinary pharmacies exploit cross-border regulatory gaps
VIN News - California
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Julie Wilson and her husband were diligently giving their dog Kooshka monthly medication to prevent heartworm infestation when, to their astonishment, Kooshka tested positive for heartworm during a routine exam. Their veterinarian, Dr. April...
Majority of speakers at Deep Sea Mining Town Hall express concern
Samoa News
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July 10, 2025
(FP) 2776.JPG Musuaina Collins of Pago Pago, a staff member of the American Samoa Resilience Office, spoke on behalf of her colleagues and the youth of Samoa, emphasizing the critical importance of protecting marine resources for future...
Losacker’s 12th book features sailing adventures and medical missions
Cook Island News
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August 22, 2024
Dr Wolfgang Losacker, a long-time medical specialist who is now retired after serving Cook Islands for over two decades, with his 12th book inspired by the country. TALAIA MIKA/24082015/24082016 A long-serving Cook Islands medical practitioner Dr...
GNUT Faces Scrutiny Over Australia Trip and Healthcare Crisis
Tavuli News
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September 6, 2024
Leader of the Opposition Matthew Wale has criticized a recent trip to Australia led by Deputy Prime Minister Bradley Tovosia. Wale claims that the trip, involving a 14-member delegation, was not authorized by the Cabinet or Caucus. This has raised...
My Perspective: Should NZ start treating Pacific nations like partners and not dependents?
Pacific Media Network
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One of the big headlines last week was that New Zealand was pausing over $18 million in development assistance planned for the Cook Islands' 2025-2026 financial year. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says New Zealand's decision to pause...
Pacific news in brief for 1 July
RNZ
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July 1, 2025
Niue government buildings Photo: RNZ/ Sally Round Niue - budget Health, education, social welfare and government salaries have receives a boost in the Niue government's new NZ$12.5 million (US$7.6m) deficit budget. Last week, the island's finance...
Computer Vision Statistics 2024 – By Segments, Countries, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Healthcare Market, Retail Industry, Surveillance, Symptoms
Hollywood Gazette
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August 27, 2024
Computer Vision Statistics 2024 – By Segments, Countries, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Healthcare Market, Retail Industry, Surveillance, Symptoms August 21, 2024 — Introduction Reports indicate that by the end of the year 2030, the market size of...