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1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived in Tonga from Australia (Timeline internet).

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped as slaves for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).

10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British possession. (Chch Star NZ 10 Oct 2014 p11).

1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews, govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie Henderson”, from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in 1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012 p64).

1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders” or slaves for sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.

1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history. Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ genealogist May June 2011).

14 May 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian slaves arrived in Fiji. Leonidas. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

31 Jan 1885 – The Solomon islands. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

1889-1896 – The US annexed the harbour of the pacific island of Pago Pago in 1889. The built a new navy between 1890 and 1896 (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US)

1899 – Cover ups happen in government departments and injustice follows. Germany got control of the Samoan islands in 1899. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

11 July 1902 – The coronation celebration in Fiji. ODT NZ. Papers past.

1911 – WRA Reynolds. Poo-Bah of the Pacific and the miss rule of the Cook islands. Wellington. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1912 – Frank Fox. Problems of the Pacific. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1914 – NZ captured Samoa at the start of World War One in 1914. (Justice. Kevin Ryan ©1997 NZ).

1914 – James Jeffery. Samoa, the pearl of the Pacific where everything is different. Dunedin. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – HE Holland. Samoa, a story that teems with tragedy. Wellington. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – R McK Watson. History of Samoa.Wellington 1918. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1918 – LP Leary. New Zealand and Samoa. London. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

1920 – GH Scholefield. The Pacific, its past and future and the policy of the great powers. London (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

20 Feb 1929 – American Samoa became a territory of the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 20 Feb 2015).

1944 – By 1943 US factories were producing 100,000 planes a year. By summer 1944 the US had deployed 100 aircraft carriers in the Pacific. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The first US thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The US exploded its first hydrogen bomb, in a test in the Marshall islands. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1 March 1954 – The US detonated its largest thermonuclear device, over bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954. The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952 test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – The Bravo H bomb test on Bikini atoll. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

1 March 1954 – US oil supplies as the US was beginning to import lots of oil. The first US test of an H bomb at Faniwatok atol. 15 megatons, it was over 1,000 times greater than the bomb dumped on Hiroshima Japan. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1957-58 – Atomic nuclear tests. Victims got compensation from Fiji. British colony, nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. (Independent UK. Rob Hastings. 31 Jan 2015).

15 May 1957 – At Malden island in the Pacific. The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb. In 'Operation Grapple'. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

25 Nov 1958 – The US Commander of the Pacific fleet was Admiral Arleigh Burke. Spy flights over China. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Oct 1959 – A US RB-57D was shot down over the Pacific. Aerial surveillance of the Soviet Union. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldricch ©2001 UK).

1968-76 – Christian brother Ian Robert Carroll in PNG Fatima Banz. Working with Street kids. He lived in PNG for 26 years. Catholic.

25 Nov 1969-1971 – Plague, Malaria and vaccine experiments on humans. On 25 Nov 1969 pres Nixon put and end to all US biological warfare, and ordered the US arsenal to be destroyed. Deadly biological weapons to kill and incapacitate. In 1971 on the atoll in the south Pacific called Johnston island, Red Hat operation. Johnston atoll where chemical agents were leaking VX. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen (c)2014 US).

1970s – Book Body of secrets by James Bamford. “Operation Ivy Bells” in the early 1970s. NSA submarines in the sea of Okhotsk tapped cables connecting the Soviet Pacific naval fleet base in Petropavlovsk to its HQ in Vladivostok. Divers from the USS Haliburt sent tapes with recordings to NSA HQ. Info on the Soviet Pacific fleet. Tapping undersea fibre optic cables and collecting info. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

1971 – Vanuatu as a small offshore center, was created by the British government in 1971. 9 years before it got independence. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni of Chicago press.

1976 – Christian brothers at Nukutere college Rarotonga. br Simon Germaine Coughla. Catholic.

Late 1976 – Terrance John Clark. Raymond Brunnell, importing heroin from Fiji. Terry Clark aka Alexander Sinclair and the Mr Asia drug syndicate. (Justice. Kevin Ryan (c)1997 NZ).

March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978. Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel and they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark, Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

6 March 1981 – France conducts a nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 March 2015).

Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank). (The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1985 – East Timor violations of human rights, executions, disappearances, torture and political imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London UK.

1987 – Lagaga. A short history of western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google books.

1987 – Troical Cyclone Uma hit Vanuatu, 48 people died and 5,000 people were made homeless. A category 4 storm. (The Guardian UK 13 March 2015).

1989-1997 – br Anthony Roberto Gherardi taught at Nukutere college Avarua Cook islands Catholic Christian brothers.

1995 – The French government continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July 1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995. Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats, planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC ©1997 NZ)

1995 – HJ Hiery. The neglected war. The German south Pacific and the influence of World War One. Honolulu. (The great wrong war. Stevan Eldred Grigg ©2010 NZ).

17 July 1998 – New Guinea 2,100 people were killed in a 7 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 people were killed. Malol Arop Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 July 1998 – Three tsunamis, caused by an earthquake, rose 30 feet, destroying 7 villages in Papua New Gunea. The death toll was about 4,000, half the local population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

27 Nov 1999 – Mass graves found in Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

21 Dec 1999 – Mass graves found in East Tmor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).

24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand to warn about visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.

30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on drugs charges.

16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 8 earthquake. one person died and 5,000 people were made homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney Morning Herald NSW. Organised crime groups are targeting the south Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.

4 July 2001 – East Timor militia leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party Timorese Socialist party PST.

28 Sept 2001 – Australian police, Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.

9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3 people were killed when a tidal wave hit and 40 homes were washed away. Timeline of earthquakes.

31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet disappeared in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old. Missing person.

17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police, who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)

23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM, Sir Allen Kemakeza, for using public money to pay more than $A 360,000 to police, who were extorting him. We have made the point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to extortion. New Zealand and Australian police were trying to restore law and order. (Christchurch Press AFP)

11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.

2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).

9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.

22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).

27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).

2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable, written by Australian national university professor Helen Hughs, was released by the centre for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes, including abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).

10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online paedophiles are a threat on the internet, British.

21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Organised Asian crime syndicates.

12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim. Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.

15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and Chinese triads are operating in the country.

18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.

1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).

20 November 2006 – International criminals are said to have laundered billions on the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).

27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).

19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves, to strengthen the US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)

6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).

2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.

3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and internet gambling PNG.

7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.

28 March 2008 – Organised crime business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby. Organised crime international.

15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.

5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.

17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads entering country.

19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.

29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3 earthquake and tsunami. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 earthquake and tsunamis in Samoa 136 people were killed dozens of people were missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Nov 2009 – State Human trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human trafficking.

23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton New Zealand. Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).

2010 – Palermo in the Pacific. Organised crime in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).

4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami in the Solomon islands 1,000 people were made homeless. There were 8 earthquakes since 3 Jan. 7.2 earthquake in Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese migrants.

25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring candidates in the 2012 election.

25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring candidates for next election.

19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Sex trafficking of children. Sexploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking is mistakenly called willing prostitution.

22 June 2010 – US demands action on child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.

16 Dec 2010 – New Zealand spied on the Fiji military. Wikileaks cables show. Stuff.co.nz. Michael Field.

February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).

30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine into Australia from Fiji.

26 May 2011 – NZ police detective, Mark Franklin, was arrested and charged with drug dealing in Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).

5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking is a huge problem in the northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking victims in Pacific countries.

16 July 2011 – Two casinos have opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.

18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.

21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 earthquake in Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012, in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).

17 April 2012 – 7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)

16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.

16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse was found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. (Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).

16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine, worth $120 million, was found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).

16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a dead body was on the boat too. (Matangi Tonga online).

16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).

16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a cargo of cocaine.

19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves $US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.

23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney, Papua New Guinea and Nauru media are banned.

6 Feb 2013 – 8 earthquake on the Solomon islands and a tsunami. 9 people were killed and homes were destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 April 2013 – 6.8 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 August 2013 – Australian police seized a huge cocaine haul in the Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.

23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.

23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.

23 August 2013 - $425 million worth of cocaine was seized from a Vanuatu yacht. NZ Herald. US and Australian agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine on a yacht in Vanuatu hidden under concrete

24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.

16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.

2014 – Solomon islands flooding and earthquakes, disaster.

1 April 2014 – PNG transnational crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million..

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged interference in Vanuatu citizenship.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially children

21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a Somalian pirate hijacking.

23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN. Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org

30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times reports.

17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7 earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.

17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.

17 Sept 2014 – Guam earthquake 6.7 in Lalate St Louis. ABC news.

19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer was charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam AP. Charged the police officer with misconduct and sexual assault.

30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards. Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.

12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga threaten strikes over the cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions and public servants, Tonga strikes.

20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted, 9 people were charged with drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Meth. Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC Australia).

22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander, Labour MP Shane Jones becomes Nauru’s new High Commissioner to the small island state. Waatea news.com.

22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea Bouganville government begins a missing persons policy. ICRC press release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.

23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in Fiji workers struggle.

30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new in Fiji. Police corruption and brutality.

31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national university.

31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found. Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles from home.

1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8 million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.

2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji. Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 earthquake.

2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 earthquake off Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east of Ndoi island in Fiji.

8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.

10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police were flown in to cover next weeks elections.

12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are currently under investigation.

13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared Owens The Times UK. AFP.

17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission needed in Solomon islands to tackle corruption. ABC Australia.

1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport, broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.

13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in recent days.

22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji $20 to $30 million worth of heroin was found in quad bike tyres. A man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.

22 Dec 2014 – The Fiji Times online. Police FRCA raid uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a container. Tyres of a quad bikes, heroin consignment from China.

23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin bust. Radio NZ $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online. Fiji Times. Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old.

28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected ‘by the parliament’ in Tonga.

30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.

31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.

2015 – Radiation is killing the Pacific. Fukushima Japan. Dr Apsley, videos on YouTube. Amazing discoveries. No date. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water into the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014. David Gutierrez. National news.

8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A search is underway.

23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 earthquake reported on Twitter.

24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.

31 Jan 2015 – Atomic nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. A British colony. Victims got compensation from Fiji. (Independent K. Rob Hastings.)

31 Jan 2015 – 1957 and 1958 British nuclear tests, Christmas island. Mirror UK. Susie Boniface.

5 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Toby Manhire. New Zealand spies on the Pacific for NSA’s Five Eyes says Edward Snowden.

13 March 2015 – Vanuatu in lockdown for cyclone Pam, superstorm, a category 5 storm. Cellphone and other networks down. Flooding and landslides. At 4pm trees were beginning to be uprooted. Cave systems in Tanna and Erremanga. People in the Solomons sheltered in caves. (Radio NZ int).

13 March 2015 – BBC UK Cyclone Pam news.

13 March 2015 – SBC Australia APP Flooding in Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu as cyclone Pam strengthens.

13 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Joshua Robertson. Cyclone Pam, a massive storm bearing down on Vanuatu. 260,000 people in its path. Port Vila in lockdown, a category 5 storm.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ int. State of emergency in Tuvalu. Cyclone Pam flooding washing away homes and damaging grave sites.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Cyclone Pam in the Solomon islands. People are seeking shelter in caves. Category 5 storm destroyed homes. Extensive damage to homes. Tikopia lost 90% of its food crops and fruit trees. Water is contaminated. All phone lines are down.

15 March 2015 – Newstalk ZB. New Zealand’s GCSB is targeting the Solomon islands PM’s inner circle. Dylan Moran. Cyclone Pam just hit the Solomon islands. People sheltered in caves.

19 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Mass immunisation in Vanuatu. Vaccines by UNICEF. 1,000 children vaccinated in the next ten days. They have already vacinated 1,000 children under 5, in the last 24 hours. 10,000 to be vaccinated in the next 10 days. Malnourished children with no food to eat.

30 March 2015 – RT 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea, near the Solomon islands. USGS.

30 March 2015 – Three undersea earthquakes near Niuatoputapu. Matangi Tonga. Three large quakes 6.8 and 6.4.

30 March 2015 – Earthquakes strike Samoa and Tonga. The Guardian UK. A series of quakes. Two size 6 quakes hit off Samoa's east. ABC online.

30 March 2015 – Daily Mail online UK. 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Tsunami, a small one. Aftershocks expected.

30 March 2015 – Times of India. AP Sydney. 7.7 earthquake Papua New Guinea. Tsunami warning issued. Only a small one. Aftershocks expected.

31 March 2015 – Tsunami warning after PNG hit by 7.5 quake aftershock. Arab news.

21 May 2015 – 6.9 earthquake in the Pacific. An undersea quake near Santa Cruz, Honiara Solomon islands. No tsunami warning was issued.

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