The tale of a trip to the Solomon Islands have gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Aftershocks are continuing to rock the Solomon Islands, hampering relief efforts after a quake and tsunami.
It is the largest island in the Santa Cruz island chain, part of the Solomon Islands nation.
The Secretary-General, accompanied by Madam Ban, departed Canberra for Honiara, Solomon Islands, that afternoon, arriving in the evening.
Instability has also afflicted Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, where riots followed an election last year.
The Solomon Islands faces the prospect of becoming the Pacific's first failed state.
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The Solomon Islands' Western Province, unsurprisingly, wants more power for its local assembly.
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In doing so, it accentuates a bandwagon tendency in Melanesian politics that is also evident in the neighbouring Solomon Islands.
Julian Maka'a, a well known journalist from the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Commission (SIBC) spearheaded the organisation of the training for MASI.
But that already happens: just compare the training facilities available to the minuscule Solomon Islands squad alongside those of mighty Team America.
The Solomon Islands once exported gold, palm oil, timber and canned tuna.
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In 1942, the battle of the Coral Sea started in World War II, when naval and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.
Aftershocks continued to rock the Solomon Islands, a day after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that left at least nine people dead.
The plane, which was also carrying vital aid, later landed successfully said Andrew Catford, the Solomon Islands director for the relief agency World Vision.
Homes were damaged and at least five people have been reported dead after a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake hit the Solomon Islands.
In the lobby of AIC's headquarters in Burlington, west of Toronto, a pair of parrots from the Solomon Islands greet visitors with squawks of "Buy!"
On the margins of the Crans Montana Forum, the Director-General held bilateral meetings with the Minister for Culture and Tourism of the Solomon Islands, Hon.
Delegates represented indigenous people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Cook Islands, Hawai'i, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Samoa.
Two years ago, the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) identified an urgent need to take the initiative to improve media and journalism in the Solomon Islands.
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii in December 1941, ferocious fighting on Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) and Bougainville (PNG) brought Americans in large numbers to the islands.
Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
They were transported to their plane in a carriage carried by about 20 islanders, concluding the short tour that has also taken in Singapore, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands.
Youth participants currently confirmed are from Pacific Island communities including Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau and Vanuatu.
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SYDNEY A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific triggered a tsunami that destroyed villages and killed at least five people in the Solomon Islands Wednesday, according to government and hospital officials.
It has been trying to bring peace to the Solomon Islands, another former British territory, where ethnic groups from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal are in dispute, mainly over land.
Samoa and the Solomon Islands have slightly different priorities.
In 1978, the Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain.
The worst hit regions over the past two decades, according to the ESA data, have been the Pacific countries of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and vulnerable Pacific islands like the Solomon Islands.
He arrived in America by a circuitous route that took in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Tring, a small town in southern England where Lord Rothschild, a rich naturalist, had established a private museum.
The magnitude-8 quake, with a depth of 28.7 kilometers, was centered about 355 kilometers east of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands nation, according to a bulletin issued by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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