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America's Foreign Policy magazine has listed Voqere Bainimarama in its top ten leaders on the environment and climate change. https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/380754/fiji-s-bainimarama-listed-as-top-global-thinker
Faith-based education forum formed https://fijisun.com.fj/2019/01/25/in-the-name-of-faith/
Social media
Fiji's Online Safety Act, passed in May last year, is intended to make social media safe for women and children, but others see it as possibly muzzling free speech. The Act makes those intending to harm the individual liable of fines up to $F20,000. https://asiapacificreport.nz/2019/01/23/critics-see-fijis-online-safety-act-as-trojan-horse-for-online-censors/
There are pros and cons, both with the Act and its critics.
Samoa
Pros and Cons of Chinese Aid
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/01/01/china-samoa-and-debt-for-equity-swaps/
Overseas workers
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands election "sometime" this year
http://www.solomonstarnews.com/index.php/news/national/item/21287-polling-date-finalised
Tonga
Cut ocean cable leaves Tonga adrift
https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/24/tongan-businesses-disrupted-cable-blackout
https://amp.rnz.co.nz/article/c0af0d03-c3f6-441d-bb0e-478ae1f44efa
Health
UK to piggyback on NZ embassies in Pacific
Media freedom downgraded https://kanivatonga.nz/2018/12/tongan-press-freedom-downgraded-journalists-say-they-must-have-a-voice-on-climate-change/ |
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