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Developing Pacific economies including Samoa's are expected to grow in 2023 and 2024 due to a recovery in tourism, post-disaster rebuilding, and infrastructure construction, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday.Pacific growth is expected to pick up to 3.9 per cent this year from 2 pe...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries have responded to a legal agreement with environmental groups by proposing to designate approximately 2,233 acres of nesting and basking beaches in the main Hawaiian Islands, with additional areas in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, American Sāmoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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123rf Reducing obesity could be one of the best ways to slow the increase in the number of New Zealanders with dementia For European New Zealanders the PAF was 47.6 per cent, for Māori 51.4 per cent, for Pacific people 50.8 per cent, and for Asians 40.8 per cent. Researchers involved in the study came from Waikato, Counties Manukau and Auckland district health boards, the University of Auckland, and University College London. The study has been published in Risk factors with the highest ad...

Source: Health Quality and Safety Commission A new report paints a stark picture of the health care challenges faced by Pasifika in New Zealand and calls for ambitious changes to the system to be made urgently. Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of COVID-19 was launched in Parliament by Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito William Sio and is the latest in a series of ‘window’ publications from the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission). It co...

Monday, 5 July 2021, 6:08 pm A new report paints a stark picture of the health care challenges faced by Pacific peoples in New Zealand and calls for ambitious changes to the system to be made urgently. Bula Sautu: A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of COVID-19 was launched today in Parliament by Minister for Pacific Peoples Hon Aupito William Sio. The report is the latest in a series of ‘window’ publications from the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission). I...

Arizona Basketball Coaching Hot Board 2.0 Arizona has made the decision to part ways with head basketball coach Sean Miller and will now look to hire a new coach. The hiring comes at a unique time because of the IARP and the fact that nobody knows what the future will hold.  The Arizona administration will have to navigate the results of the IARP that are likely coming next summer, firing of Miller, and hiring of a new coach. The public eye will likely be on the hire because of how everything ...