New Caledonia News

New Caledonian crows are special. They can spontaneously make new tools from materials they have never seen before, like a hook from a bent wire.

NOUMEA a ' The mosquito-transmitted hemorrhagic dengue fever has claimed a fourth victim this week, health authorities announced on Wednesday.

A visit to Prince George Friday was both a new and eye-opening experience for B.C.'s new Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development.

A court in New Caledonia has sentenced the USTKE union leader, Gerard Jodar, to one year in prison following a strike at the capitala s domestic airport last month.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy and his former supermodel wife Carla Bruni will not be coming to Sydney after all.

My small attempt to celebrate science and to make it interesting and fun by giving jargon, confusion and elitism a solid beating with the stick of good writing.

The French Navy is coming. A patrol boat normally based in Noumea is due to arrive in Auckland next Thursday morning for a four day visit.

Author Marie Elliott will present a slideshow and talk featuring her new book Fort St.

With the summer holiday season approaching, conversations naturally turn to the subject of travel destinations.

Students from all walks of life were all smiles on their graduation day held last week.

Soaring numbers of college students at the Mackenzie campus is being attributed to the closure of sawmills and a paper mill in that community during the past year or so.

It was a lucky escape for a 28-year-old paraglider at Mount Maunganui late yesterday afternoon.

Movement patterns of four coral reef fish species in a fragmented habitat in New Caledonia: implications for the design of marine protected area networks ICES J. Mar.

An Australian-owned start-up, Pacific Wings, is seeking unlimited capacity for its proposed trans-Tasman flights.

PALIKIR, Pohnpei/Noumea, New Caledonia - Every year over the past three years, an average of 1,500 new active tuberculosis cases - equivalent to 52 cases per 100,000 population - are reported from the Pacific island countries and territories.

" border="0px" width="250px"/> College of New Caledonia Culinary students Karri Kammers, left, and Chelsea Werhun, created a Ukrainian Dancer from lard in preparation for the 3rd Annual Global Gourmet Fundraising Gala.

Enrolment statistics for 2008 reveal the College of New Caledonia saw increases in all of its major areas including: the number of students, the number of diplomas and certificates awarded, the number of full-time equivalency students and the number of people taking continuing education courses.

New Caledonia's 54-seat Congress has elected anti-independence leader Philippe Gomes as the new president of the local 11-member government, the Oceania Flash reported on Friday.

Alison Bell discovers that a holiday in paradise doesn't always deliver a heavenly trip.

A CRUISE liner that called in Fiji last week was turned away from New Caledonia because five people on board were showing flu-like symptoms.