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Tongan Born New Zealand Boxer Receives World Rankings For First Time In Eight-year Professional Career
Tongan-born boxer Auckland resident The Tongan Goddess Nailini Helu is now ranked 6th in the Light Heavyweight division in the IBF, receiving her first major world rankings in her ...
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League Superstar Shaun Johnson Confirms Next Major Sporting Challenge
Warriors and Kiwis legend to turn his hand to cricket at T20 Black Clash in Christchurch in January. He’s one of the most ...
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Whooping Cough Confirmed In Samoa
The country’s health ministry said it continues to observe a high number of severe acute respiratory illnesses presenting to the hospitals.RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Ministry of Health has ...
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Violence Against Women Statistics Paint Grim Picture In The Pacific
The report said that in Oceania, excluding Australia and New Zealand, the prevalence of reported physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence – taking place in the past 12 months – ...
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Strengthening Maritime Security: Tuvalu Welcomes New Guardian-Class Patrol Boat From Australia
The addition of HMTSS Te Mataili III is a significant enhancement to Tuvalus maritime capabilities, enabling the nation to ...
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Climate Finance Commitments Triple At Close Of COP29 – Expert Reaction
The so-called finance COP in Baku, Azerbaijan has just concluded with agreement on the Baku Finance Goal. This aims to replace developed countries previous commitment to provide NZ$171 billion ...
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More Genuinely Kiwi Stories Greenlit To Entertain Local Audiences
The huge success of funded drama and comedy at the NZ TV Awards last week was a timely endorsement of the talent and ideas surfacing through our funding process, said NZ On Air Chief Executive Cameron ...
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Yemen Appears To Have The Upper Hand In Its Conflict With The United States
Yemens government is not going to cease its attacks on Israel just because the U.S. and the Israelis have been hitting their country.
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COP29: ‘Climate Finance’ For The Pacific Is Mostly Loans, Saddling Small Island Nations With More Debt
The real beneficiaries of climate finance for small island nations are private contractors brought in to build resilient infrastructure. There are now calls for a fairer money dispersal system. As ...
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Helen Clark Foundation Calls For Political Action To Reduce The Prevalence Of Junk Food And Improve Health Outcomes
The report argues the long-standing government approach that relies on people taking sole responsibility for their health and the choices they make, will continue to fail unless the obesity ...
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Urgent Need For Investment In Programmes Against Violent Discipline: Nauru’s First-Ever Nationwide MICS
A staggering 99 per cent of children under 5 in Nauru have had their births registered. This is the highest coverage rate in the Pacific compared with the other six MICS reports published so far ...
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COP29: New Finance Goal Fails Children, Their Families And Communities On The Frontline Of The Climate Crisis
The new target figure of $300 billion a year for climate-vulnerable countries by 2035, and the failure to address loss and damage flies in the face of the ambition needed to tackle this emergency.