Kiribati

The New Zealand aid programme is in the process of equipping Pacific fishermen with electronic locator beacons. The programme's Pacific transport development officer, David Weinstein, said a trial is currently wrapping up in Niue and Kiribati. When activated, a beacon sends a coded distress signal via ...

PNG's digital terrestrial and satellite operator Click Pacific has been contracted to design, install and commission Kiribati's first digital terrestrial platform advancing the Pacific ... Our people do not have TV so advancing directly into Digital TV brings development to Kiribati and creates new opportunities

The president of Kiribati Taneti Mamau has invited Donald Trump to visit the pacific nation to witness the impact of climate change for himself. SBS News spoke with Mr Mamau on the sidelines of CHOGM 2018. Updated Updated 20 April. Source: SBS News. Topics: US Politics · Europe · World. Stay up to date with SBS ...

SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean university students are helping to foster the dreams and hopes of youth in Kiribati, an island republic in the Pacific that lies at risk of being submerged due to rising sea levels. Global outreach NGO IYF (International Youth Fellowship) said yesterday that it ...

His Excellency Anote Tong, fourth President of the Republic of Kiribati, is a strong advocate for the fight against climate change. He speaks at College of the Atlantic's 45th Commencement on Saturday, June 9. With Kiribati (pronounced Ki-ri-bas) under immediate threat from rising seas, Tong has become ...

Kirata Temamaka said the opposition is concerned at government suppression of international media coverage in Kiribati. He then referred to the recent ban of New Zealand journalists covering the Butiraoi ferry disaster. Mr Temamaka said there is a lack of openness and transparency in Kiribati where the ...

Kiribati's former president Anote Tong is to be a key witness in a landmark New Zealand trial over action by environmentalists against the world's biggest oil exploration ship. Anote Tong. Photo: RNZI. Last year Greenpeace New Zealand Executive Director Russel Norman and a colleague swam in front of ...

Stretching more than 3,200 kilometres east to west (a larger distance than Paris to Moscow!), and scattered across 3.5 million square kilometres, the Republic of Kiribati is made up of 33 coral atolls and islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Logistics Cluster first began working with Kiribati in 2017 as part ...

The rebuilding of the meteorological station was identified by the European Union and the Kiribati government as a key to strengthen operational support after Cassidy's recognition as an international airport. The station houses five weather forecasters, working around the clock, to provide information for ...

"When we spar we share the gloves with everyone," added Rabaere, saying that while Kiribati -- population 115,000 -- is woefully short of facilities and equipment, they have plenty of talented boxers. "If we have more capacity, more gloves, more rings and better coaches, it will encourage many more to ...

Taauke Ruevita was one of just seven survivors of the Kiribati ferry tragedy, which claimed more than 80 lives in January. The 15-year-old young lady, currently attending Kauma Adventist High School, was also the youngest person to survive. She shared her incredible story with Trans-Pacific Union ...

APTC, which is funded by the Australian government aid programme, provides tertiary level skills training to the Australian required standard. In its ten years of operation APTC has trained over 12,000 Pacific people, including more than 440 i-Kiribati. This year's graduates have gained qualifications in ...

The Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC) celebrated the achievements of 19 students who were awarded Australian qualifications at a graduation ceremony in Kiribati on 21 March 2018. APTC is a flagship program of the Australian Government and has been providing Australian-standard skills and ...

Within the next 50 years, a series of islands in the southwest Pacific — and roughly all 560,000 of its inhabitants — will succumb to the depths of the ocean, according to Dr. Mike Roman, co-founder of Humans of Kiribati. In his lecture “The Human Faces of Climate Change: The Case of Kiribati,” Roman ...

The search is continuing for two Kiribati fishermen who have been missing for five days. No caption. Photo: Supplied / NZ Defence Force. On Sunday a New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft began assisting in the search for the 30 and 45-year-old men. The Orion covered the area around Nonouti atoll ...

Air Kiribati (IK, Tarawa) will inaugurate its own scheduled international operations on March 21 with the launch of weekly flights between Tarawa and ... the two countries and will further the Kiribati Government's Kiribati Vision 20 (KV20) objectives,” airline CEO Tarataake Teannaki told Radio Kiribati.

Three New Zealand Transport Agency investigators will help with the investigation into the sinking of the Kiribati ferry MV Butiraoi, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. The 17-metre catamaran left Nonouti Atoll on January 18 with 88 passengers and crew on board, bound for the capital Tarawa.

Aerial photograph of Gardner Atoll (now Nikumaroro Island in Kiribati) taken in 1938 by an aircraft taking photos for the New Zealand Pacific Aviation Survey. The bones, revisited in the study Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones by University of Tennessee professor Richard Jantz, were discarded.

The People Living with HIV Stigma Index Study has recorded a total of 28 people from Kiribati with HIV. The other Pacific nations in the study are the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and Palau. Regional co-ordinator of the study, Jokapeci Tuberi Cati, said out of ...

Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, believes his country will soon "be uninhabitable" amid rising sea levels. If a sustainable solution isn't found, locals may be forced to relocate and effectively become "climate refugees," he warned. The Pacific nation bought 6,000 acres of land on Fiji in 2014 as a ...

Investigations into the Kiribati ferry disaster in January have found that the skipper and his crew had been drinking. Some of the seven survivors ... Kiribati's maritime director Ruoikabuti Tioon said he was still to finish his investigation into the Butiraoi sinking in which 80 people died. Mr Tioon said after ...

"We're looking at the government shipping fleet and small ships along the scale of the ship that was lost in Kiribati and going how can we build and supply better generation shipping, reduce fuel bills and increase connectivity, affordable connectivity between the island states?" The region's scientific and ...

The Clerk to the House of Parliament Eni Tekanene told Radio Kiribati News it's the first time the speaker has arranged dates for Parliament meetings to give MPs and other groups more time to prepare. Mr Tekanene said all MPs were expected to arrive in Tarawa two weeks before parliament starts sitting.

To some, climate change might feel like a distant problem that does not affect our everyday lives. Some even treat the global phenomenon with downright indifference or label it a "hoax." Of course, climate change is not a faraway threat. The destructive effects of a warming world are very real and are felt ...

He said a Kiribati patrol boat was expected to reach the men today. "The men are safe and well and their vessel is in good condition. The crew dropped them emergency supplies and a radio and were able to establish communications with them. The Fiji Maritime Surveillance Rescue Co-ordination Centre ...

A New Zealand Air Force Orion searched an area near Kiribati's Nonouti Atoll throughout Monday but the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Suva said it ... The Co-ordination Centre said two Kiribati vessels that have also been part of the search will continue looking for the men for the foreseeable future.

He said the Kiribati Government has sought assistance so three staff from the New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission will help Kiribati's Ministry of Transport with the investigation. Mr Peters says they will help establish the causes of the accident and make recommendations on safety ...

The 'Enhancing Inclusive Sustainable Economic Development through Coconut Sector Development' project is being funded by India, Brazil and South Africa with the support of UNDP Pacific in Fiji. The Kiribati Ministry of Commerce, Industries and Cooperative secretary, Toani Takirua said a key priority in ...