http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/tags/pacific.htm Latest news stories from around the world. Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00 2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00 A Pacific non-government trade watchdog has warned Pacific Island countries not to jump into individual trade deals with the European Union.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428625.htm2008-11-25T08:55:56+11:00Fiji search and rescue authorities are helping look for 29 Asian fishermen who went missing in Pacific waters at the end of October.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428394.htm2008-11-25T03:13:22+11:00The Indonesian President says his country will turn to its large domestic market to maintain economic growth in the face of an expected slowdown.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427033.htm2008-11-22T12:26:33+11:00The Australian Prime Minister will use the APEC leaders meeting in Peru to argue for better regulation of the world's financial system and against a retreat to protectionism.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426974.htm2008-11-22T09:57:25+11:00Australia has joined the United States in a plan aimed at eliminating tariffs on all trade products in the Asia-Pacific region.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426456.htm2008-11-21T22:02:20+11:00Australia has moved to reassure Pacific nations that they will benefit from the push for free trade in the region.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426650.htm2008-11-21T16:30:10+11:00A New Zealand air force plane is searching the Pacific Ocean for 29 Taiwanese fishermen after their burnt-out boat was found adrift north of Fiji.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2425492.htm2008-11-21T03:33:33+11:00Fiji's interim government has outlined its reasons for not holding elections next March at a meeting of the Forum-Fiji Joint Working Group.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2425517.htm2008-11-21T03:33:33+11:00Australia's opposition says the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, should drop his plan for an Asia-Pacific Community.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424349.htm2008-11-19T22:20:42+11:00The Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia will retire early next month.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2423253.htm2008-11-18T20:05:12+11:00New Zealand's new Pacific Island affairs minister says her Maori background will help her in her new role.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2422354.htm2008-11-18T11:59:11+11:00A lack of proper animal health services in the Pacific Islands region will be discussed at a meeting of the Commonwealth Veterinary Association, due to open in Samoa.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421303.htm2008-11-17T09:53:58+11:00Pacific Island nations that are heavily reliant on tourism are beginning to feel the effects of the global financial crisis.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420278.htm2008-11-14T19:08:24+11:00A ban on the consumption of kava in European countries has been lifted.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418832.htm2008-11-13T14:44:12+11:00The Australian government's international development chief says overcoming the Pacific's high maternal mortality rate must become a priority.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418441.htm2008-11-13T11:35:58+11:00The United Nations children's agency says not one Pacific island nation will meet the millenium goal of cutting the death rate of children under five by 2015.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418196.htm2008-11-13T10:40:34+11:00Pacific Island nations are a step closer to resuming the trade of kava with European nations.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418125.htm2008-11-13T07:54:26+11:00Samoa's Chamber of Commerce has criticised what it has described as an irrational approach by government to electricity cuts.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2417051.htm2008-11-12T03:30:51+11:00