Friday, June 9, 2023

Election system overhaul: PNG PM

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Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guinea hopes to adopt India’s electronic voting system and biometric identification during General Election 2027. “They (India) are...

Independence hero Xanana Gusmao’s party wins Timor-Leste election but falls short of majority

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Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao's party has won the parliamentary election but has fallen short of an outright majority. The opposition National Congress for Timorese...

Dalton Tagelagi forms Niue’s first gender-balanced Cabinet

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Two female ministers have been announced in Niue's Cabinet for the first time in the nations history. Dalton Tagelagi, who has just been re-elected as...

Moetai Brotherson has been elected as the new president of French Polynesia

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Moetai Brotherson of the pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira has been elected president of French Polynesia for a five-year term. In the election in the territorial assembly,...

Long-serving Niue MP wants ‘democracy observed at all levels in politics’

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O'Love, or Veve, Jacobsen has been winning elections in Niue for the past 35 years, apart from a spell when she was the country's...

Several new MPs will be sworn in to the 18th Niue Legislative Assembly after...

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Niue voted in several new representatives to the next Fono Ekepule according to the provisional results issued by the Chief Electoral officer Darren Tohovaka...

Voters going to the polls in French Polynesia

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Voting has started in French Polynesia in the second round to elect a new territorial assembly for a five-year term. About 200,000 voters can choose...

Niue goes to polls with 30 percent of seats already decided

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A total of 1,167 Niuean voters get a chance to elect a new parliament this weekend. They will choose from the 17 candidiates lining up...

Oscar Temaru’s Tavini Huiraatira party wins round one of French Polynesia’s territorial elections

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French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party has come out on top in the first round of the territorial elections. The party, led by Oscar Temaru,...

Candidate list for Niue General Election released

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At the close of nominations at midday Friday, 25 nomination forms for the 14 village seats and 17 candidates competing for the six common...

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Japan’s decision to discharge radioactive waste water into the Pacific ‘unconscionable’

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By Pita Ligaiula Japan’s plan to discharge radioactive waste water into the Pacific has been described by Acting Forum Secretary General, Dr Filimon Manoni ‘unconscionable’. Dr...

World Oceans Day underscores need to protect ‘the foundation of life’

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Over a third of global fish stocks are being harvested at unsustainable levels – just one example of how human activity is harming oceans,...

Small Islands states urge world leaders to take action against plastics

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World leaders should take action to protect small island nations from “choking on plastics.” This was said by Small Islands States during the Global Plastics...