December 14, 2024 – Pacific Islands News

Bougainville needs time and money for independence- PM James Marape

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Tusi Tala, Staff Writer According to Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape, Bougainville must strengthen its economy to support its independence aspirations. At the PNG Investment Week Conference in Sydney, he highlighted that the region’s internal revenue, which funds its recurrent and development budgets, currently stands at just seven percent and needs to be…

Tuvalu’s Vaka Cable arrival ‘significant step forward’ – Kofe

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by Martin Haffner Associate Editor Tuvalu’s first international underwater communications cable landed in the tiny island nation’s capital Funafuti this week. The Tuvalu Vaka Cable is jointly funded by the Australian, Taiwan, United States, Japan, and New Zealand governments. Tuvalu’s Transport, Energy, Communication and Innovation Minister Simon Kofe said that the subsea cable connection “is more than…