Driving Change for Diversity In Golf

Tagging along with her sports-mad parents was the ultimate training ground for world champion golfer, Member of New Zealand Order of Merit and AUT alumna Phillis Meti. With a childhood spent on netball courts, football

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Recovering Stronger Together from COVID-19

The role of more inclusive public financial management Inclusion for disability is inclusion for all, says the Pacific Disability Forum (PDF). While this is true in every sphere in life, it is especially important when

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Why Is My Poke Bowl $20? Is this the A-poke-lypse?

The answer to this question is not so simple—and one should not be alarmed. The situation is certainly not permanent and tuna stocks around Hawaii are doing just fine. Bigeye and yellowfin tuna (ahi), like any

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Resilient, Agile and Smart Infrastructure

Lenovo Event 2022 On April 27th, 2022, VirtualFlex partnered with Lenovo for the Resilient, Agile and Smart Infrastructure Program at GPH, incorporating Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a way to solving

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Help from Above: ‘AgWorld’ App Aids Farm Management in Tonga

From the clouds fall the rains that bring much welcomed moisture and nutrients for farmers the world over. But for a group of growers on the island kingdom of Tonga, a cloud of the virtual kind offers a whole new world

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SPBD Relocates in the Sigatoka Salad Bowl

South Pacific Business Development’s newly relocated branch in Sigatoka is now open to its members. The office services SPBD members from throughout Nadroga-Navosa and Serua. “As our SPBD membership grows, this new

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A Pacific Feminist Agenda

AUT’s latest sponsored exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery’sDeclaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda opened on 26 March Curated by Ane Tonga, Declaration brings together 12 prominent artists from across the Pacific

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Niue Launches New Legal Protection Over 100% of Its Ocean Space

Speech by Honourable Dalton Tagelagi, Premier of NiueNiue High School Cultural Day –13th April 2022 Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, may I thank you all, the principal, teachers and the students of the Niue

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Fire and Space: Forces Driving Innovative Communications Tech

Deep below the Pacific Ocean, the crusts of the earth’s tectonic plates meet in a ring: The Pacific Ring of Fire. Responsible for creating 75% of the earth’s volcanoes and 90% of the earth’s earthquakes, The Ring

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Bula Vinaka Ovalau

A Message from SPBD Fiji General Manager, Elrico Munoz In 2015, when SPBD Fiji was barely five years old, we visited Levuka and went around the island with one of the SPBD members – Mrs. Taraivina – who has her

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Extending Manaaki to Our Community

A 40-foot container full of desks and chairs has been shipped over to schools in Tonga following January’s volcanic eruption. Several schools in Tonga were devastated by the tsunami that followed the eruption with

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Safeguarding Pacific Livelihoods and the Pacific’s Vital Kava Sector

Well before Australia announced it was opening up to commercial imports of kava, cultivation of the crop in Pacific Island nations such as Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands had been

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