The Solomon Islands visitors bureau (SIVB) and the Solomon Islands chamber of commerce & industry have joined forces to raise money for local fashion designer Miss Lyan Tingiia. This is to allow her travel overseas to attend a fashion festival. Miss Tingiia designed the Crown for the recent Miss South Pacific Beauty Pageant. She has…
Our Telekom this week launched OUR Telekom to date has erected and launched its ninth mobile tower in Isabel province. This follows the launching of the mobile service in Tiromola of Kolomola in the highlands of Hograno district in Isabel province recently. Speaking during the launching ceremony chief of Kolomola Mr. Gordon Riumana thanked Our…
PARTIES to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) members are urged to take rigorous action on tuna fisheries. Finance minister Rick Hou made the call when he opened PNA’s 33th annual meeting in Honiara yesterday. “…as directors of your respective countries’ fisheries ministries, you are entrusted with this highly valuable resource. I therefore urged you to take…
PARTIES to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) was established for the well-being of the people of member countries. That’s according to its chief executive officer, Solomon Islander Dr Transform Aqorau. “I want to remind ourselves that when you walk along the streets of Honiara and see women, men and children sitting on the streets selling betel…
BUKA, PNG – Bougainville Copper is to open an office on Bougainville Island this year as sentiment begins to build within Papua New Guinea for a resumption of mining of the giant Panguna copper deposit. The visit to Bougainville Island by the PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill earlier this year – the first visit by…
Papua New Guinea’s first liquefied natural gas cargo is expected to leave from near Port Moresby in the next four months, with the $US19 billion (K46bn) PNG LNG project set to perform a rare regional feat by coming on stream ahead of schedule. The ExxonMobil-run project, which would process gas from a gasfield in Southern…
FIJI TIMES – Bank South Pacific (BSP) has launched its new VISA debit card in Suva, which, among other things, will make travelling easier for its customers. BSP has extended its services with an instant card issuance over the counter, flexible and easy to use, access to VISA’s wide global coverage and acceptance and which…
Fiji TV – Fiji is one of eight countries in the region where 20 percent of the population still live in hardship – meaning they are unable to meet all of their basic needs. But according to a World Bank report, Fiji still leads the Pacific when it comes to efforts to reducing those hardship…
RNZI: Vanuatu’s Disaster Management Office says the death toll could rise as it establishes the full extent of damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Lusi. Three people have been confirmed dead and one person is seriously injured as a result of the cyclone. The office’s director, Shadrack Welegtabit, says almost half of Vanuatu’s population has been…
ABC: The giant ExxonMobil liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea is months ahead of schedule and is expected to deliver first gas by mid-year. The project marks emergence of PNG as a gas supplier to Asia and is expected to push economic growth next year to 20 per cent. Managing Director of Esso…