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Editorial 4 Letters 5 Briefs B-7 Special Beport: Meeting the challenges of a changing region 8-9 Pacific Community joins forces with vets association! 1 Business: US audits Marshalls for Compact talks 12-13 Island-hopping not so easy these days 14 Business Briefs 16 Coral award a platform for expansion 18 Majuro develops as transhipment centre 22 Clean up passports-for-sale taint, minister says 26 PNG's tax system under review 29

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Underwater potential 39-32 Pacific governments regulate undersea mining 33 Life's secret at the bottom of the sea 34 Giow-in-the-dark squirt raise money 35 Politics: Cyber nation helps islanders seek independence 36 Vanuatu police blamed for human rights abuses 38-39 Development: US runs global spy system, documents claim 41 'Coming of Age in Samoa' named worst non fiction 42 Pilot error may have caused Fiji's worst crash 44 Sport: PNG hopes attack will not dim Dlympic torch honor 52 Yachting: Blue Moon in Vanuatu 54 Dpinion; David Barber/Jemima Garett 56 Pacific Puzzle 58

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