Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol 59, No. 9

Voice Of The Pacific

September, 'BB

Cover Story 25

SPECIAL REPORT: Japan is looking south to the Pacific ... bearing gifts and determined to erase past errors in aid donations. Japanese investors are pumping millions into Pacific resorts, roads and airports, partly for the benefit of a growing tourism industry and partly to diversify unwieldy Japanese wealth. Alan Goodall reports from Tokyo on Japan’s military, assistance and financial interests in the region it calls Oceania.

Cover Photograph: Oliver Strewe/Wildlight

LINI A WINNER IN VANUATU’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS 10 Sope’s last-minute bid to topple his PM fails ANSETT, HAWAIIAN BREAK THE AIRLINE ‘MONOPOLY’ 13 Pacific air services set to expand with new competitors HAS PARIS FOUND A SOLUTION FOR NEW CALEDONIA? 15 The Matignon Accord offers France and Noumea a chance of peace

Namaliu Gets Tough With Png 16

The new PM’s bold plan for restoring law and investor confidence

Salii Death Leaves Questions Unanswered 17

Palau’s embattled President dies but was it suicide?

Tuvaluans Survive Epic Ordeal 18

Faith, courage and pluck keep four young islanders alive

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Muscians Jailed In Vila 41

West Papua’s Black Brothers claim they are

political victims

“Poor Relations” Denied A

Hearing In Canterbury 44

Pacific bishops ignored at Lambeth Conference

Pacific People: Western Samoa’S

Tofilau Eti ■■••■■■•■■■.■■■•■■■.■..46

The PM speaks in an exclusive interview

Suva Charts A Plan For The

Future 20

Tourism industry meets to boost the region

The Canoes Of Oceania Receive

Their Due 22

Hawaii’s Canoe museum honours the Pacific’s greatest artifacts

“Fight Them On The Beaches” ..32

Hawaiians battle developers

Shocks In Store Over Nuclear

Testing 33

A surprise for Paris policymakers from the heartland of the French Pacific

Rumours Of Discontent 36

Tonga celebrates a Royal birthday but its people are denied fair play

Congressman Indicted 39

Sunia steps down as corruption trial begins

Pacific Dancers A Hit In Paris,

London 40

Europe’s capitals salute the region s artists

Deputy Editor Carson Creagh Art Director Samantha Foster Editorial Adviser John Carter Contributors Robin Bromby Alan Goodall Jack Kelleher Diana McManus Michael Moriarty Ed Rampell David Robie Nicolas Rothwell Frank Senge Firoz Shaheem Rodney Smith

Publisher and Managing Editor Geoffrey Hussey

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