TruemorsRI gets US$33.3 million for coral reef management
""The commitment of funding support from several donor countries and institutions was agreed on at a senior official-level meeting of CTI in Bali last week," he said.The CTI groups Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands and Timor Leste...
Strong 6.6 Earthquake Hits Solomon Islands
Developing story"Magnitude 6.6 Date-Time * Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 11:50:01 UTC * Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 10:50:01 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 11.021°S,...
Yudhoyono to convey idea on forestry eight to Bush
""President Yudhoyono would introduce the initiative at a "Forestry Eight" meeting of countries that have tropical rain forests to be held in New York," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said here on Friday...PM lashes out at Air NZ criticism
"....The scrap relates to a row that began earlier this month over the airline - which is two-thirds owned by taxpayers - ferrying Australian troops bound for Iraq to Kuwait. The New Zealand government, which does not support the war, expressed disapproval over the...
President Kennedy's wartime rescuer honoured by US Navy
Isn't it odd how they wait till someone's life is nearly over before they are given recognition for something. - The Angryindian------------------------------------"An elderly villager in the Solomon Islands,...
6.7 magnitude Earthquake in Solomon Islands
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LEAD: M6.7 earthquake hits Solomon Islands+
Aug 16 06:15 AM US/Eastern
TOKYO, Aug. 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH TSUNAMI THREAT ASSESSMENT)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck in... 
Solomon Islands Chopping Down Its Own Future
The Solomon Islands seems to be fast-tracking its own economic ruin by increasing its logging rates. Unless the nation finds a better way to manage its remaining timber resources, or, perhaps more judiciously, looks to alternative industries, its whole way of life could...
“Customary Marriage” in Ashante Land
"MARRIAGE—hundreds of thousands enter this relationship each year throughout the world. They usually do so according to the marriage custom that prevails where they live. In Ghana the most common form of marriage is what is called customary marriage. This involves payment...
Benedict vs. the War Party
"Pope Benedict XVI, in his annual "Urbi et Orbi" declamation, has drawn a picture of the global landscape that bodes ill for the cause of peace, exclaiming: "How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world!" From the Solomon Islands to Somalia, from Latin America to...
Quake lifts Solomons island metres from the sea
The force of last week's Solomons earthquake has lifted an island in the South Pacific archipelago and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres, exposing surrounding reefs. The remote island of Ranongga in the western Solomon Islands used to have submerged coral reefs that...
Quake, tsunami change geography of Solomon Islands
Last week's earthquake and tsunami that struck the Solomon Islands has had a permanent and devastating effect on the region. The tectonic shift caused large fissures to form in the island (some as wide as 50...
Hope, Relief After Solomon Islands Tsunami
"There are nearly 1,000 islands in the Solomon chain, and some are so remote that we were only able to reach them by private helicopter. ABC News reporters visited Gizo, the island hardest hit by last week's quake...
Quake and tsunami kill 13; countless are missing
UPDATE: Aid agencies are attempting to get supplies to the stranded islanders, many of whom are huddled together in higher elevations. After shocks are still a regular occurrence. The BBC has a great first-person...Solomons Island's Tsunami, 13 die, many missing, more expected
The magnitude-8 quake that created a tsunami with dozens of after shocks strong enough to cause earth quakes themselves (about four reached magnitude-6), which hit the Solomons Islands early this morning has resulted in extensive destruction, with the death toll now at 13;...
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