Oceania News

Vehicles as tsunami traps highlighted by the debris piled up at more than 12m elevation at Poloa, American Samoa.

BARCELONA, Spain -- After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.

The vice foreign minister on Thursday hailed Vice Premier Li Keqiang 's official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as "very fruitful," calling it a major diplomatic activity of China with the South Pacific region.

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 5th November, 2009 There is an alarming lack of sexual knowledge among international students in Australia, says a study that followed statistics indicating one in three abortions at a hospital in the Australian city of Adelaide was performed on students from abroad.

The troubled A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has been forced to axe its remaining 2009 rounds, in China and Malaysia, as rescue bid continues.

Repair work to Australia's Olympic Dam uranium and copper mine is on track for a resumption of full production between January and March next year, mine owner BHP Billiton said today.

THE winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, has labelled the Federal Government's asylum-seeker policy "illegal and immoral". The celebrated Australian journalist, author and filmmaker will be presented with the Sydney Peace Foundation award today.

A second man in a week has been jailed for 20 months after trading child sexual abuse images on the internet.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

New Zealand head of mission Todd Cleaver wore a traditional sulu - a wrap-around garment like a skirt worn by both men and women in Fiji - to Nadi International Airport for his precipitate departure from the islands.

LETTING RIP: ACT leader Rodney Hide addresses the breakfast at Christchurch's Heartland Hotel Cotswold.

Elusive Firepower boss Tim Johnston has been served with an injunction that will force him to stay in Australia to face questions over the $100 million collapse of the fuel technology company.

A statue commemorating the New Zealander who led the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain was unveiled in London overnight in front of several hundred people.

FIJI'S acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation.

The Rudd Government has determined a pathway for Community Television to make the transition to digital broadcasting.

New Zealand's Acting High Commissioner Todd Cleaver is expected back home from Fiji sometime on Thursday, as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday discussed bilateral relations and other issues of common concern with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Thomas Somare.

Six months after Rotorua couple Leo Gao and Kara Hurring skipped the country with millions of dollars of Westpac's money, police say they are still waiting on Chinese authorities to track them down.

In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.

BRITNEY Spears has arrived in Sydney ahead of her first Australian concert tour, which starts in Perth on Friday.