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King's Birthday 2025 Honours List
Scoop
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The New Zealand Order of Merit DNZM To be Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Ms Ranjna Patel, ONZM, QSM, JP For services to ethnic communities, health and family violence prevention Emeritus Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart,...
King’s Birthday Honours 2025: The full list - knights, dames and all other recipients
The New Zealand Herald
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June 1, 2025
Emeritus Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart, CNZM, for services to plant science and the arable sector Catriona Ruth Williams, MNZM, for services to spinal cord injury research and equestrian sport Knights Companion (KNZM) Mark Leslie Smith...
Advocate to restore citizenship (Western Samoa ) Act 1982 amongst Pacific peoples recognised in King’s Honours List 2025
TP+
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June 1, 2025
Kings Honours List 2025. Pasifika people are among the 88 recipients who have been recognised for the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List, for their service and contribution to the country. Congratulations goes to: Member of the New Zealand Order of...
Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone
Asia Pacific Report
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June 2, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King’s Birthday honours list reflects the importance of connecting young tagata Niue in Aotearoa to...
What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
Climate Home News
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June 17, 2025
The 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change famously does not name the controversial root cause of the very problem it is intended to solve: fossil fuels. In the year of its 10th anniversary, Gillian Cooper, political director of the Fossil...
Pasifika recipients say King's Birthday honours not theirs alone
RNZ
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June 2, 2025
Mele Ikiua with four of her five children. L-R: Eunique Ikiua, Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Ms Ikiua, Hannah Edwards-Ikiua Photo: Supplied A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King's Birthday honours...
Pacific Leaders Rally For Climate-Resilient Fisheries At Third UN Ocean Conference
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NICE, FRANCE, 11 JUNE 2025 – Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent global action to protect the world’s largest tuna production region from the accelerating impacts of climate change. This message was reinforced at the 3rd UN...
Pacific media freedom:an update on rankings
The National
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Media freedom is a crucial element of a functioning democracy. In the Pacific Islands, media freedom levels differ. This post analyses is the latest media freedom rankings for Pacific nations and suggests two ways the re-elected Albanese...
Health data masking cancer differences between Pacific ethnic groups
Scimex Newsfeed
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April 10, 2025
Tongans and Cook Islands Māori have a higher rate of cancer diagnoses than other Pacific people in New Zealand, while Samoans and Niueans have higher rates of gastric cancer, specifically. Authors of new research in the New Zealand Medical Journal...
Pacific leaders rally for Climate-Resilient Fisheries at UN Ocean Conference
Matangi Tonga Online
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June 11, 2025
Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent global action to protect the world’s largest tuna production region from the accelerating impacts of climate change. This message was reinforced at the 3rd UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France...
Interview: Gaye Searancke, Chief Executive, LINZ
Spatial Source
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March 30, 2025
New Zealand is a country of abundant natural beautiful and widely varying landscapes, from snowy mountain peaks to fertile farmland, from active volcanoes to pristine sandy shores. It’s also quite large, with a land area about 15% greater than...
Nations vow to cut shipping noise as sea life struggles to b...
Modern Ghana
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Marine mammals struggling to feed their young are abandoning key habitats as underwater noise from human activity grows louder – a threat that's now been recognised by dozens of countries in an international push for quieter oceans. At the UN...
‘Survival’ at stake as Vanuatu uses ocean summit to press IC...
Modern Ghana
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Vanuatu is using this week's UN Ocean Conference in Nice to demand climate justice ahead of a landmark legal opinion from the world's top court – with climate minister Ralph Regenvanu telling RFI that faster action to hold big polluters...
Te Ipukarea Society: The ocean is our life
Cook Island News
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June 14, 2025
The Story Plus Activity Guides is available from the TIS website. TIS/ 25061350 As Oceans Week draws to a close, we celebrate that nearly 40 countries are now calling for a moratorium on Deep-sea Mining (DSM). Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) president,...
Foreign Minister Focuses On Pacific Resilience During Visit To France
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Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has taken part in two major international events in Nice, France this week, focused on Pacific resilience, prosperity and security. The sixth Pacific-France Summit,...
Battling Tides, Rising Waters, And Shifting Shores: Polynesia’s Determined Advance Toward Climate Resilience
New Spotlight Nepal
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Rising Tides undermine Resilience in Polynesia's Fight against Climate Change In the vast blue expanse of the Pacific, the Polynesian nations of the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, and Tokelau stand as some of the world’s most vulnerable frontlines in...
Ocean With David Attenborough: The Untold Story In Our Exclusive Interview
Innovation & Tech Today
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June 5, 2025
As the world prepares to celebrate World Ocean Day, National Geographic is making waves with the premiere of Ocean with David Attenborough—a feature documentary debuting June 7th on National Geographic and streaming globally the next day on...
‘Our Ocean is our heritage, our home and our future’
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Copyright: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Monitoring and Governance As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) gets underway in Nice France, Samoa’s Prime...
Starlink is transforming Pacific internet access – but in some countries it’s still illegal
The Conversation
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June 9, 2025
In the past few years, Starlink’s satellite internet service has become available across much of the Pacific. This has created new challenges for regulators in Pacific Island countries: some have promoted Starlink while others have banned it. What...
Pacific Islands focus: health sovereignty, polio outbreak and regional relationships
Croakey Health Media
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June 9, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: As we wait to hear whether Australia will co-host COP31 climate negotiations next year with Pacific Islands nations, Vanuatu’s climate minister Ralph Regenvanu has expressed disappointment about the Federal Government’s...