Chuck Shepherd - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jan 22, 2010 News of the Weird Natives of the Erromango section of the Pacific island Vanuatu recently held a formal "conciliation" with the great-great-grandson of the British missionary whom the islanders' ancestors ate when he came ashore in 1839.
Kava cola, Vanuatu's answer to energy drinks - Australia Network News
Many fitness devotees in the west swear by energy drinks. Vanuatu, in the Pacific, has developed the anti-energy drink: a kava-based soft drink. Lava Cola is a cola drink with an added kava lactone – the essence of kava, the Pacific’s plant-based ...
Vanuatu To Host Big Tree Business - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 17, 2010 – International forestation company, EC02, aims to plant 3.3. million kiri (paulonia) trees over 20,000 acres of land on the tropical island of Malekula, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. Creating jobs ...
Pacific Island Nations Gather to Review Development ... - Yokwe
Top officials from 14 small island developing nations in the Pacific Ocean are gathering in Vanuatu today for a United Nations-backed meeting to review strides made in sustainable development. The countries will assess progress made in implementing ...
R. A. Geise: Climate-change skeptic - Summit Daily News
Neither is there any evidence in a similar 18-year record from the Vanuatu group of islands where refugees have been forced from their homes because of such fears. Professor Morner's extensive research in the Maldive islands has shown that sea level ...
NZ reviewing aid to Vanuatu after judge threatened - Stuff
A NEW Zealand judge has received a death threat from a member of Vanuatu's paramilitary police force while investigating the brutal killing of a man in police custody in Port Vila. New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says the threat ...
2009 Human Rights Report: Vanuatu - U.S. Department of State
Vanuatu is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 235,000. The head of government, Prime Minister Edward Natapei, governed with a seven-party coalition. The most recent elections, held in September 2008, were ...
Hurricane Season 2010: Tropical Storm Ului (South ... - NASA
The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. Sanma is a province located in the northern section of the nation of Vanuatu, and is located on the nation's largest island, Espiritu Santo.
Vanuatu To Grow Chinese Trees - PR Inside
2010-03-16 06:05:08 - The tropical island nation of Vanuatu is to become the host to thousands of kiri (paulonia) trees. An international forestation company in the South Pacific, EC02, plans to plant 3.3. million kiri (paulonia) trees over 20,000 ...
Vanuatu aid in doubt after NZ judge gets death threat - Australia Network News
New Zealand could review its aid to Vanuatu, after one of its judges received a death threat while investigating the murder of a prisoner in police custody in Port Vila. The Stuff NZ website reports a member of the paramilitary Vanuatu Mobile police ...
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