PNG minister stable after arrow wound<\/p>\n
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Trade Minister Michael Nali is recovering from an arrow wound he received while attempting to mediate a dispute among ethnic groups in the capital’s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses say he intervened to stop a fight between two Highlands groups.<\/p>\n
During the clash, he was wounded by a stray arrow, which pierced his chest.<\/p>\n
Nali was taken to Port Moresby General Hospital where a scan showing it narrowly missed his heart. He is expected to remain in the hospital for several days<\/p>\n
Malaitans petition for repatriation assistance<\/p>\n
HONIARA, Solomon Islands — Several hundred Malaitans have demonstrated outside the Parliament building, demanding immediate compensation for loss and damage to their properties.<\/p>\n
Thousands of Malaitans were displaced from their homes on Guadalcanal during months of ethnic tension earlier this year over land rights, jobs and political power.<\/p>\n
The demonstrators said 60 percent of those displaced have not yet received any repatriation assistance from the government.<\/p>\n
Open fighting ended in August with the signing of the Honiara Peace Accord and the resettlement of most Malaitans to their home islands.<\/p>\n
Vanuatu MP’s boycott parliament<\/p>\n
PORT VILA, Vanuatu –\u2013 Prime Minister Donald Kalpokas and his supporters staged a boycott of Parliament Tuesday to avoid a no confidence vote.<\/p>\n
Opposition leader Mokin Steven, who heads the main opposition National United Party, had announced plans to introduce the no confidence motion, which has been postponed to Thursday.<\/p>\n
At the time of Tuesday’s scheduled vote, both the government and the opposition had 26 seats each in the 52-member Parliament.<\/p>\n
French Polynesia children make longest flower garland<\/p>\n
PAPEETE, French Polynesia — Children in Papeete have made a 1,277-foot flower garland — believed to be the world’s largest — to mark International Children’s Day.<\/p>\n
The result was achieved by joining together over a thousand individual garlands, which later were tied to balloons and released into the Papeete sky.<\/p>\n
An attorney officially registered the achievement for submission to the Guinness World Book of Records.<\/p>\n
Residents protest military’s hazardous waste<\/p>\n
HAGATNA, Guam — Guam residents are holding a series of lunchtime protests this week to voice concern over hazardous waste left in the territory by the U.S. military.<\/p>\n
Former Guam Senator Angel Santos said the military has failed to protect the community from exposure to cancer-causing PCBs.<\/p>\n
Tests on fish in the Agana River, he said, show high concentrations of toxic chemicals, believed to have come from a Navy power plant. (Pacific Islands Report)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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