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The tropical cyclone that battered parts of Fiji this week, killing one person and forcing thousands out of their homes into shelter, has now been downgraded, the worst of its strength dissipated.

A HOSPITAL radio presenter has picked up an award for the quality of a broadcast she made to "cheer people up in their beds".

Emergency Response Kits (ERKS) are already in Fiji and being handed out by Rotarians on the ground following the devastating category four Cyclone Tomas that swept through parts of Fiji in the past few days.

Samoa is a beautiful place, a land of golden sand, towering coconut palms and wide, open smiles. But it is also a country in pain. Beneath its idyllic tropical veneer lies a nation intent on rebuilding its infrastructure and its people.

Engineers Without Borders New Zealand (EWBNZ) has made a commitment to focus their aid efforts on kiwi communities this year, at their official 2010 launch event at the University of Auckland’s School of Engineering this evening.

MOST NSW Fire Brigade zone commanders could probably get around to see all their troops in a day or two.

Forget Facebook and Twitter, morse code is on a comeback.

The International Rugby Board has announced that Samoa will host the 2010 ANZ Pacific Nations Cup.

It’s usually around 5 a.m. when Eric Massa sits down at his desk. Occasionally, that’s after he rolls out of bed at a small, two-story rowhouse on Washington's E Street — a townhouse shared with five of his staff members.

U.S. Coast Guard cutter Walnut returned today after a two-month patrol involving multiple missions in the Pacific.

The International Rugby Board has announced that Samoa will host the 2010 ANZ Pacific Nations Cup.

U.S. Coast Guard cutter Walnut returned today after a two-month patrol involving multiple missions in the Pacific.

MPs are being urged to send to a select committee a bill seeking to cap interest rates that loan sharks charge

Playwright Dianna Fuemana had just six hours to dream up this story - plus a few more to edit - which won Monday's Once Upon A Deadline competition as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival.

An open letter to Governor Brian Schweitzer: I am writing to you with the best interests of traveling public, - and in particular we who live on or near the east lake Montana Highway 35 where it rounds Flathead Lake. We read both accounts (in the Daily Interlake and the Missoulian newspapers) of the Somers meeting held the evening of Nov. 12. This meeting featuring Jim Lynch of the Montana ...

9 March 2010: Works by some of the biggest names in photography will be auctioned in London tonight to raise money for Oxfam New Zealand's Samoan tsunami appeal . Jane Bown, Tom Hunter and Daniel Lynch are among the several portrait, press and fine-art photographers to contribute signed, limited-edition images in aid of the 2009 South Pacific disaster, which killed 140 and displaced thousands of ...

The Financial Times will be holding a photography auction on Tuesday 9th March in aid of Oxfam’s Samoan Tsunami Appeal. On September 29, 2009, an earthquake of 8.3 magnitude triggered a tsunami off the coast of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Kiwi trauma experts have found many Samoans caught up in last year's tsunami are still living in fear

Kiingi Tuheitia, the Maori King and paramount chief of Waikato-Tainui, was invested as a Knight Commander of Grace of the Ancient and Most Noble Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem at Turangawaewae today.

Bus drivers unanimously opposed any increase to GST at the stopwork meeting of the Wellington Tramways Union yesterday.