Laptop for every Niuean child Oct 17, 2009
The One Laptop Per Child programme has lived up to its name in the tiny South Pacific nation of Niue, where 100% of children now have one ... It is not the first time that Niue has proven to be ahead of the technological curve; in 2003, it became the first territory to offer free wireless internet to all its inhabitants. (BBC News -- Technology)
China 'stumbling' in the Pacific Jul 25, 2009
Page last updated at 11:11 GMT, Friday, 24 July 2009 12:11 UK. By Vaudine England BBC News, Hong Kong. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Bainimarama lying about elections: forum Jul 9, 2009
Talagi, chairman of the powerful regional forum and premier of Niue, said the army chief does not even intend to stick to this belated poll date ... The visit to Tonga, Samoa, Niue and the Cook Islands is Key's first in the top job and aims to assess the impact of the global financial crisis on small Pacific states ahead of the forum's meeting in Cairns next month. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Fiji ousted from forum May 3, 2009
Forum chairman Toke Talagi, premier of the micro-state of Niue, said Fijis rejection of fundamental principles like the full observance of democratic values and the promotion of human rights had given the forum no alternative. But Fiji Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum said the military government shall not be deterred from any of its objectives even in the face of adversity, created by some. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Fiji, Facing Suspension From Pacific Forum, Rejects Calling New Elections May 1, 2009
Along with Fiji, Australia and New Zealand it includes Tonga, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. To contact the reporter on this story: in Sydney at. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
A Google search of a distinctly retro kind Mar 4, 2009
So far, more than 200 advertisements have run in more than 70 languages: in highbrow periodicals like The New York Review of Books and The Poetry Review in Britain; in general-interest publications like Parade and USA Today; in obscure foreign trade journals like China Copyright and Svensk Bokhandel; and in newspapers in places like Fiji, Greenland, the Falkland Islands, and the Micronesian island of Niue (the name is roughly translated as Behold the Coconut. which has one newspaper. (International Herald Tribune)
