Smith and his attorney-protectors control the Cook Islands Trust and the transferred assets, which are used as instructed by Smith to fund his personal expenses and legal fees.

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It also contains a case study about the first e-waste day in Cook Islands, and describes activities for the news room to carry out in order to increase the understanding of the issue and to explore different story ideas.

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An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They live in 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.

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An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They hail from 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.

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Otherwise those relying on it in the US Virgin Islands are going to have a hard time working out what those islands on the horizon are (the British Virgin Islands are not on the list) and New Zealand will be a bit surprised to note the non-existence of the Cook Islands.

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The presentation of the Cook Islands expert highlighted the interactive on-line databases of biological diversity and Maori languages which could also contribute to the ICH safeguarding and inventory-making efforts.

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Aitutaki boasts a beautiful lagoon, a must-see on any visit to the Cook Islands.

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Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.

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There are two others in the Caribbean (St Kitts-Nevis and St Vincent) and four in the Pacific (Niue, Nauru and the Cook and Marshall Islands), as well as Panama and Liechtenstein.

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Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.

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