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Support growing for locked out ILWU miners in Boron, California as 34 Pacific unions condemn Rio Tinto at Vanuatu conference today in the following declaration Dear ILWU Local 13 members, Trade unions of the Pacific Islands attending the ILO Tripartite Meeting on development of Decent Work in the Pacific wish to express our full support for and ...

Chief Nelson is waiting on the beach. You can't really tell from this distance that the diminutive figure in a blue Hawaiian-style shirt with missing front teeth is the big kahuna at this village on the waterfront of a sandy bay so beautiful that in my eyes it blitzes the competition.

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PRINCE CHARLES was apparently worshipped as a divine figure by the Iounhanan tribe on Tanna, which is one of the islands in Vanuatu, a nation in the South Pacific once known as the New Hebrides.

A burst of moderately strong earthquake activity struck Vanuatu this morning. Monday 25th January 2010 Three undersea earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.9 and 5.4 have struck at various depths and locations across the Vanuatu Islands this morning.

Finally, the banking system has met its match. In 'The Last Cargo Cult,' the inimitable Mike Daisey harnesses pervasive contempt for the way many banks have handled the financial crisis and uses it to fuel a divine rant about how we have allowed money to ruin everything.

The monologue at Woolly Mammoth Theatre may constitute the finest hour -- actually, make that two hours -- ever devised by Daisey, a tale-spinner of amusingly footnoted outrage. His brand of bombast is perfectly calibrated for examinations of the colossal follies of our time. In this instance, he gets the meaty topic between his teeth and, like some carnivorous poet, gnaws it down to eloquent bone.

ECO2 Forests Inc. , an international sustainable forestry company focused on reforestation and carbon sequestration projects, has been approved by the government of Vanuatu to import and supply plants for ECO2's previously announced reforestation project.

An Army family from Fort Stewart hosted five Pacific islanders in the fifth and final episode of the Travel Channel's "Meet the Natives: USA." The show follows five Vanuatu tribesmen from the remote South Pacific Island of Tanna and their quest to understand American culture and spread a message of peace, as well as find an American servicemember ...

During their week in Orange County, the adventurers from Tanna, a small island in the South Pacific, learned many things about the tribe that lives here: They found places where lush green grass grows on dry land so that men with special sticks can whack small white balls.

A man whose great-great grandfather was killed and eaten by cannibals has taken part in a unique reconciliation event in the South Pacific.

We get our first glimpse of the volcano from where the road begins a steep, corkscrewing descent from the backbone of Tanna Island.

FIVE countries -- China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea -- account for 90 per cent of the estimated HIV cases in the World Health Organisation's Western Pacific region.

" "It's like gazing into the gates of hell," said Kerri Miller. Standing on the rim of Mount Yasur volcano's crater, I had to agree with the Australian tourist.

Residents were loaded onto fishing boats and shipped to the far side of Gaua island after the volcano, which has been rumbling for the past two months, started erupting.

PHOENIX Biltmore and history Get schooled in the history of Arizona and Frank Lloyd Wright by booking the "Arizona Biltmore History Package" at the resort where every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush has stayed, where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard honeymooned, and where Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas." Dates: Through ...

At first glance, Meet the Natives is one of those reality TV concepts that makes the heart sink.

Aerial view of Mount Garat during more quiet times. Geologists in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu raised the alert status for the volcano on Gaua due to a surge in activity over the past two weeks.

Princess Regent, HRH Princess Pilolevu Tuita 6th Conference of the Pacific Community in Nuku'alofaopened the MAXIMISING Impacts of Regional Programmes at National Level is the theme of the 6th Conference of the Pacific Community that was opened in Nuku'alofa on October 12.

Calm has returned to the Pacific now that a tsunami warning for the region has been lifted.