New Caledonia News

Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama arrived in New Caledonia last night ahead of the 19th Melanesian Spearhead Group Leaders Summit in Noumea.

ORGANISERS of the Fiji Music Day are promising a bigger and better event, featuring performances from New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.

COMPETITORS representing eight countries will literally leap into action when the Showdown @ the Showgrounds makes a spectacular start to Queensland's only true international motorsport event, the International Rally of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast on 12-14 July.

A GATHERING OF PACIFIC leaders in New Caledonia is this week deciding whether to admit a pro-independence group from Indonesian province of West Papua to the body.

A weekend is upon us. For some, time off. For some, time to work. For many, a time to remember.

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THE Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama travels to New Caledonia next week for the 19th Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting where he will hand over the chairmanship to the Front De LibAfA©ration Nationale Kanak et Socialiste - FLNKS.

The littlest circus of them all travels around the islands of the South Pacific to bring a unique attraction to their often isolated inhabitants.

By Teresa Mallam - Prince George Free Press Published: June 14, 2013 9:00 AM Updated: June 14, 2013 9:56 AM John Bowman is smiling and relaxed as he talks about his time as president of the College of New Caledonia .

My plexiglass pieces survived the 22 hour trip from Santa Barbara, California to New Caledonia and I appear to have skipped the jet lag! Alright, I'm in New Caledonia so I can start testing crows right? Wrong! First I have to build all of my apparatuses from all of the plexiglass I brought over.

At the Fifth Pacific Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Workshop held in Suva, Fiji , Pacific Island delegates committed to accelerate acceptance of a regional non-binding arrangement to promote cooperation in SAR matters among 24 Pacific Island countries and territories .

Noumea , June 13: Team MRF drivers Esapekka Lappi and Gaurav Gill head into this weekend's Rally New Caledonia intent on building on their successful start to the 2013 Asia-Pacific Rally Championship .

Today we want to hold a peaceful demonstration actions to provide support to MSG meeting on June 18 to 23 June in New Caledonia, but the Indonesian police did not allow us.

Sentani, 10/6 - Police Resort Police Sentani, Jayapura regency, Papua, arrested three activists KNPB, Monday at around 11:30 CEST.

A Tongan performing arts group will perform their theater production "Kuonga" in Nuku'alofa tonight, after touring New Caledonia for five weeks.

South Island musicians Samoan Pos Mavaega of Christchurch and Tokelau /Tongan Hiliako Iaheto of Dunedin may have been born Islands apart in the same year, and live islands apart - Pos lives in Auckland, but they share an equal amount of passion for music, have collaborated on stage in New Zealand and overseas and this weekend will join forces again ... (more)

PACIFIC Conference of Churches general secretary Reverend Francois Pihaatae says Pacific Island countries must be commended for their work which has seen Maohi Nui return to the United Nations' list of territories for re-inscription. In letters to the heads of the three nations, Mr Pihaatae said self-determination for Pacific territories which ... (more)

SHARKS left alone to roam the oceans may soon become more valuable as tourist attractions than when caught and served in soup, a global study released last week shows.

Bird brain was considered an insult until a recent discovery that bird brains have a similar structure to that of the mammalian neocortex .

Taxonomic descriptions are unparalleled sources of knowledge of life's phenotypic diversity.