Wallis and Futuna News

RAIn Wallis and Futuna, free health care is failing to answer people's basic needs according to the territory's top health manager.

MISS Supreme Fuel Audrey Kamali will promote children's issues at the Vodafone Hibiscus Festival this year.

Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

"Summertime and the livin' is easy," penned lyricists Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward in 1933.

The French branch of the conservation organisatuon the World Wildlife Fund, has announced the creation of an initiative dedicated to helping protect nature in France's overseas territories.

THE Pacific Games Council's Executive Board has reconstituted the Sport Committee, PGC's executive director, Andrew Minogue informed the Pacific games associations in an e-mail yesterday.

In New Caledonia, three people have died of leptospirosis this year. Local health authorities are warning people against the water-borne disease as about 80 people have contracted it since January. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“I have to play the most important match of my life.”

View as a single page 5:00AM Saturday April 19, 2008 By Julie Middleton Laurent Vili, with partner Sarah D'Almeida, will appear in court on Monday. via The New Zealand Herald

New Zealand's foreign minister, Winston Peters, has announced the replacement of Wellington's Consul General for the three French Pacific countries and territories. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“We have also been working closely in a number of important areas such as conservation, scientific research and health”

Peters names new Consul-General to New Caledonia New Zealand's next Consul-General to New Caledonia will be career diplomat Simon Draper, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said today. via Scoop

France's new State Secretary for Overseas Yves Jgo, is planning to visit the Pacific's three French dependencies of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna in May, Jgo's media office was reported ... via Marianas Variety

View as a single page 5:00AM Friday April 11, 2008 By Gordon McLauchlan ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION, PART THREE, 1850 TO 1940; THE OCEANS, ISLANDS AND POLAR REGIONS By Raymond John Howgego Hordern House, $275 ... via The New Zealand Herald

Wallis and Futuna's administration has announced it will use the final installment of aid from the European Union to upgrade its emergency response to natural disasters. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The European Union has said it will allocate $US25 million in new funding to the French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna over the next five years. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The tiny French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna is now left without two of its three Kings after the removal of the Tuigaifo on Futuna. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

THE Consumers Association will investigate private schools which were found by The Straits Times to have shockingly low standards for their courses, staff and facilities. via The Straits Times

“I was surprised. Singapore is known for being strict and assuring high quality. Why are such schools even allowed to exist?”

CRAMPED: Punniya Language and Computer Centre in Peace Centre, which said it ran IT courses, had only three computers in one classroom while another had room for only five students. via The Straits Times

“We have been told the villagers would be ready to allow this person to take up her position if one or two positions in the same high school were offered to some members of their community”

Angry villagers have blockaded on Tuesday the Lavegahau high school on Wallis island, preventing students and staff from entering into the new academic year. via Marianas Variety

Do you ever find yourself looking at an overprinted or surcharged stamp and wondering why that extra printing is there? Figure 1. This Turkish 20-kurush President Ismet Inonu stamp was overprinted to become an ... via Linn's Stamp News

Official Statistics on the Web Official Statistics on the Web , or OFFSTATS, from the University of Auckland Library, points you to free statistics from official sources online. via Depth Reporting