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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesInternational fast-food giant McDonald's avoided paying half a billion dollars of tax in Australia over five-year period by shifting profits through Singapore, a new report by a global coalition of trade unions says.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from International Business Times AUThe treatment may not work for all types of cystic fibrosis.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesRio Tinto has settled its disputes with the Mongolian government over the Oyu Tolgoi copper project, but the agreement will cost Rio up to $US148 million.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe drug ice has been partly blamed for a brutal stabbing murder.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesAn advisory panel of the International Cricket Council has recommended that Test-playing nations should look at holding five-day matches under floodlights to attract more spectators.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe bad news keeps coming for Carlton, with Geelong set to regain three key players for Friday's AFL match at Etihad Stadium.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - NationalPolice are hunting for a man who robbed a student at knifepoint while he was waiting outside Massey High School on Monday night.The 14-year-old was standing at the school's front gate after league training when a man approached...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesA new generation of small nuclear reactors about one-eighth the size of the coal-burning Hazelwood power station in Victoria are proving popular.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Daily Telegraph | Breaking NewsMAHMOUD Hrouk's mother was on the phone to her teenage son when the line cut out. The next day she found his body in a vacant home in Sydney's west.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe Moorebank Intermodal Company has called on governments to allow an unlimited amount of goods to be moved in and out of a proposed $1 billion freight hub in Sydney to boost national productivity.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NEWS.com.au | Top StoriesSOUNDS like a potty idea: giving schoolkids drugs to stimulate their imaginations. But Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art thinks it’s “brave and creative”.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesAPN News & Media will reveal industry figures showing that out-of-home digital advertising revenues have soared by 66 per cent across the industry year-on-year, at its first investor day in several years.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from International Business Times AUStratasys unveils world's first 3D printed wearable at 2015 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - NationalA man has died after a shooting in Palmerston North tonight.A police spokesman said the shooting occurred on Bradford Place in Awapuni around 7pm.More details to come.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesA private training college run by millionaire businessman and Wyndham City councillor Intaj Khan has been fined for rorting the 457 working visa scheme.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesWoodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman has voiced confidence in a decision in mid-2015 to start engineering work on the Browse floating LNG project in Western Australia, while declaring the company "ready" for more acquisitions.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesIt might sound standard for there to be genuine competition for places at an AFL club. But, for the Giants, it is something of a first.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from The Courier Mail | Top StoriesMAROONS legend Wally Lewis has given Michael Morgan his stamp of approval as the selection bolter to replace the injured Daly Cherry-Evans in Origin I.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesPort Adelaide's players have allowed complacency to creep in, backman Tom Jonas says.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesFrom the witness box Philip Nagel held the black and white picture aloft – his grade four photo from St Alipius Primary School in 1974.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesSome scientists wonder if a daily dose could be as benign as the caffeine from a morning coffee.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Voxy: Most popular today feedThe Football Ferns departed Auckland on Tuesday morning bound for Japan where they’ll complete the last phase of their pre-FIFA Women’s World Cup preparation with Sunday’s match against world champions on Sunday.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from International Business Times AUThe nearly nude man said he had a flight to catch but was called by the police and eventually shot.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - WorldBANGKOK (AP) " The Southeast Asian grouping known as ASEAN has made a point of not pressuring member nations over internal issues such as rights abuses, and in the case of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, the policy has come...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesA man has been arrested over a suspected pipe bomb dropped near a bus stop outside a Warrnambool school in Victoria's south-west.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from International Business Times AUA team of neuroscientists has identified a part of the brain exclusively devoted to processing speech.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesIf you always felt that Don't Worry, Be Happy was a slightly unreal attitude to take towards life, the same applies to the government's budgeting.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesOne of Australia's most notorious paedophile priests, Gerald Ridsdale, will give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Allegations of Sexual Abuse during its first hearing in Ballarat.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesIpswich Mayor Paul Pisasale has hit out at the nation's largest rail freight operator as it prepares to shed more than hundreds of jobs from his region.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Stuff.co.nz - NationalA man is dead after a shooting in Palmerston North.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesSmaller companies and those outside Sydney and Melbourne complain of unfair treatment by the Australia Council, minister says.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesA rising army of stressed and sick white-collar workers is hitting Australian insurers, with the biggest life insurer, TAL, forking out $4 million a day in claims.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from International Business Times AUBoehringer Ingelheim acquires Pharmaxis’ investigational drug PXS4728A for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesWest Coast boss Trevor Nisbett has urged the AFL clubs to show caution in their determination to push for a tougher stance on illicit drugs.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Stuff.co.nz - NationalA newly exonerated John Banks wants an investigation into his prosecution and has called for the prosecutor and the solicitor-general to be held to account.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - WorldPRETORIA, South Africa (AP) " A South African judge has extended the bail of retired doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt, who wants to appeal his conviction for raping and sexually assaulting minors in the 1980s and 1990s.Judge Bert...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The Courier Mail | Top StoriesEMBATTLED MP Billy Gordon has voted with the LNP, with he and Katter’s Australian Party helping to get one of the Opposition’s motions over the line.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Voxy: Most popular today feedToday, Labour MPs Poto Williams, Louisa Wall and Nanaia Mahuta have committed to supporting malnourished children in Bangladesh by taking part in World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe Matildas continued to fine tune ahead of the Women's World Cup in Canada as they defeated Vietnam behind closed doors in Parklea, NSW on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesA security company that has pocketed $1.2 billion for running the offshore processing centre on Nauru refused to address during a Senate hearing allegations of women being sexually abused on the island by their guards, or the conditions ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe World Anti-Doping Agency has requested the appeal case against the Essendon players be held in Switzerland.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Voxy: Most popular today feedThe Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved an application to release privet lace bug (Leptophya hospita) as a biological control agent for the weed privet (Ligustrum spp.).
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesFormer Richmond forward Jake King wants to take his case for compensation for a career-ending injury to the AFL grievance tribunal, after he lost his initial battle at arbitration.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesPaying a gardener to encourage urban planting has sown discontent at Yarra Council.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe LNP has handed the government its first defeat in the hung parliament, winning its motion to keep the surgery wait time guarantee, with the help of besieged Cook MP, Billy Gordon.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Voxy: Most popular today feedHenk Reitsema is arriving in New Zealand today and will give four public talks in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Kapiti, hosted by Euthanasia-Free NZ.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesBrenda Loblein never wanted to be in this position. She didn't want to be faced with a decision about what to do with an extra embryo - a potential child - sitting on ice in a sterilised storage facility.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesAn Islamic State defector who sparked controversy over whether those who join the terrorist group should be allowed to return to Australia, has denounced the slaughter of innocent civilians and told of his wish to rejoin his Melbourne fa...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from TheAge RSS News HeadlinesThe Director-General who signed off on Jarrod Bleijie's boot camp tender process has accused the Auditor-General of denying him natural justice.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - WorldNEW YORK (AP) " For Shannon Henderson, getting a cold or flu could be the difference between putting food on the table and going hungry.As a part-time customer service representative at a Wal-Mart in Sacramento, California, Henderson...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from KHNL - National - HeadlineWhen it comes to offering cash to get smokers to quit, more people go for the carrots than the stick - but the stick gets better results.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from KHNL - National - HeadlineA California cat named Vanilla Bean with a congenital heart defect got a rare chance at another life.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsThe University of Hawaii’s School of Nursinga at Hilo awarded its first Doctor of Nursing (DNP) degrees on May 16 at Edith Kanaka’ole Stadium.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsOne Marine remains in critical condition Monday and three other Marines are still in the hospital in stable condition after the Osprey crash at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo. One Marine died in the crash.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsBy Samoa News staff reporters@samoanews.com HEPATITIS B TESTING DAY Today, May 19, 2015, is Hepatitis B Testing Day and local residents are encouraged to stop by any one of three designated locations to take advantage of this free...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Breaking Newsby Mickey Kavera - EM TV, Vanimo The Wutung Border is finally been being given the attention it deserves, with t he construction of the new border facilities nearing completion. The gensets, and scanners have yet be installed, but ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Solomon Times OnlineThe two cabinet ministers who swapped portfolios in a minor reshuffle exercise by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare last week were sworn-in at Government House yesterday.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsOn Monday, 31-year-old Reginald Johnson pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting two women in downtown Honolulu.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSMinister for Local Government, Housing, Environment and Infrastructure Parveen Kumar said there was no illegal termination of Department of Public Works workers at Labasa. While responding to the oral question
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NewsMy daughter, Valentine, fell in love with mango the second she had her first bite of the creamy orange flesh when she was 2, and she dutifully repeated back the name of this wonderful fruit. In fact, she loved mango so much that she star...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Breaking Newsby Fabian Hakalits – EM TV, Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea National Government has banned Australians traveling to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. The statement comes on the first day of the Australia-PNG Business Forum i...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Solomon Times OnlineThe Solomon Islands Minister of Finance and Treasury, Hon. Snyder Rini has approved a new levy of rates and dues for the Solomon Islands Ports Authority.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NewsTOKYO — A fatal crash of a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey in Hawaii has renewed safety concerns in Japan, where more of the hybrid aircraft are to be deployed.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Marianas Variety - Marianas Variety - Today's HeadlinesTHE former mayor surrendered to Corrections on Tuesday morning and was taken into custody. He was released after posting bail. His warrant of arrest was issued in April but it could not be served because he was in the U.S. Th...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSTwelve families at Vunimoli Settlement in Tamavua-i-wai, Suva, have been issued notices to relocate by Export Freight Services (Fiji) Limited. A letter signed by company director, Malcolm Chan, to the
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from KHNL - National - HeadlineThe Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Breaking NewsToday the Oil Search Pacific Games Relay travelled to Popondetta, in Oro Province. The Relay was formally welcomed at a grand ceremony in the middle of town by the Deputy Governor, MP David Ayore and the town mayor along with the Koipa E...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsA series of events are being held in order to bring together opposing sides on the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope project.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsOne Marine died and 21 other Marines were hospitalized after an aircraft went down at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo Sunday.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsNew commercial assessment to help save Waikiki Beach from disappearing
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil Beat
The third election this year for leadership of the Hawaii State Teachers Association will be held June 2 — the day before classes end at many campuses, according to a document obtained by Civil Beat. Unlike the previous two elections, th... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsThree teenagers were hospitalized in serious condition Sunday after after a two-vehicle crash in Kailua, according to Emergency Medical Services officials.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Breaking Newsby Stanley Ove Jr - EM TV, Port Moresby Opposition Leader, Don Polye, has raised concerns on the deteriorating state of major road connections along the Highlands Highway. Mr Polye is now proposing concrete slabs to replace the bitumen, ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSThe French naval frigate (ship), Le Vendemiaire which has been in Fiji since last week, will continue to work in partnership with Pacific island nations. This includes maritime surveillance for
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsBy Joyetter Feagaimaalii-Luamanu joy@samoanews.com A man who was pulled over after police suspected he was under the influence of alcohol as he was swerving on the road, and police uncovered illegal drugs was sentenced to 20 month in jai...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsPolice have found a missing 73-year-old Aiea woman.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSThe Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed- Khaiyum, said that there was no specific legislation that stopped or controlled sponsorship of Government programmes. The A-G was responding to an oral question raised by
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from NewsHONOLULU — The fatal crash of the Marine Corps’ new hybridized airplane-and-helicopter aircraft during a training exercise in Hawaii over the weekend is renewing safety concerns about the machine.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from KHNL - National - HeadlineFewer Americans are getting sick from a nasty germ sometimes found in undercooked hamburgers, the government reported Thursday.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsSays glitch in Lookout List has been fixed By Joyetter Feagaimaalii-Luamanu joy@samoanews.com The close relationship between the Immigration Office’s Information Technology Officer, Lawrence Apo and the Chief Immigration Officer Pe...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Breaking NewsBy Jack Lapauve Jr - EM TV, Port Moresby Disability advocate, Brown Kapi says, the government’s decision for the official use of sign language and disability policy is a breakthrough for the people living with disabilit...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil Beat
Editor’s Note: Do you have beach erosion pics you’d like to share, old or new? Tweet them to @civilbeat, using the hashtag #civilbeach or via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/civilbeat. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell has signe... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil Beat
The 13,500-member Hawaii State Teachers Association is holding officer elections and after a few fits and starts seems to have settled on a promising new electoral strategy: Simply keep voting until leadership likes the results. These ar... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil Beat
Wide-eyed and open to adventure, Christine L’Orange landed in the old airport in Kona. It was 1970 and the 22-year-old California transplant was living in the moment. L’Orange soon found herself residing in a rural tin-roofed shack witho... -
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsServices of the daycare center where she was employed suspended By Joyetter Feagaimaalii-Luamanu joy@samoanews.com Ieremia Lone also known as “Loge” has left the island while there are criminal charges pending against her con...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Breaking Newsby Stanley Ove Jr EMTV Port Moresby Papua New Guinea is following the global trend where education is compulsory and given top priority by the National Government. With the Country’s first ever free education policy; there has been...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsBy Samoa News staff a translation With the many Samoan handicrafts made by senior citizens, the Territorial Administration on Aging is looking at setting up a museum to display these handmade items, which include traditional Samoan carvi...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil BeatPresident Obama now has a personal Twitter account, @POTUS (short-hand for “president of the United States”). “Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States. Tweets may be archived: http://wh.gov/privacy,”...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Civil Beat
What happened? This year, state lawmakers introduced a record number of bills aiming to modernize and restore trust in Hawaii’s county police departments, yet only one of the police reform bills passed. Sen. Laura Thielen says the singl... - A website has been launched to publicise, promote, and pre-sell a book about Cyclone Martin, the most tragic cyclone to hit the Cook Islands in recorded history.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSThe Opposition failed to support their much criticised colleague, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu in Parliament yesterday, during a vote on whether to refer him to the Privileges Committee. When the motion
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Talamua On-lineReverend Elder Kerita Reupena (far left) and members of his Queensland district By Lagi Keresoma APIA: TUESDAY 19 MAY 2015: The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS) Queensland District is currently attending the church’s annua...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from Breaking NewsBy Theckla Gunga EMTV Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has become the first country in the Pacific Region to establish a Mobile Micro-Insurance service. This service will see people saving money for health and life insurances through the us...
- Bank South Pacific (BSP) says it is waiting for a few more regulatory approvals before fully acquiring the banking operations of Westpac in Samoa, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga for $125 million.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsThe study says that while a warming climate has led to stronger storms it also has meant a slight decrease in the amount of storms over the past 30 years.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsHawaii’s work furlough programs across the islands is considered to be one of the Public Safety Department’s most successful programs in preparing inmates for life after prison – it’s also helped cut down the rate...
- Blackrock, the country’s first and oldest early childhood education centre, celebrated a number of milestones last Friday with a shared ‘feast’ and lots of fellowship.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Local NewsHonolulu police are asking for the public's help in finding David Kawika Pukahi of Hauula.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Fiji Sun » NEWSRepublic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) personnel who are working in the civil service have resigned as soldiers. This was confirmed by the Minister for Defence, National Security and Immigration,
