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Thanos Dimadis: "The new boards of the AFC-USA symbolize diversity with a strong representation of different countries, ethnicities, and women." Share Article The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA) held elections for new board members to lead the organization in 2021-2022. Past News ReleasesRSS NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 15, 2021 The Association and the Club of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States (ForeignPressCorrespondents.org) constitute the official representation for foreign correspondents in A...

MERCENARIES' HAD ROLE IN IRIAN JAYA Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/14/1999 - 00:00 By Peter Cronau SYDNEY, Australia (July 13, 1999 - Bushfire Media/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---The former CEO of the South African mercenary group, Executive Outcomes, has revealed that his company provided training and operational advice to the Indonesian special forces in an operation to rescue hostages held in West Papua (Irian Jaya) in 1996. Nick van den Bergh informed the writer that he led a team of five 'military advisers' who traveled to Indonesia to provide training in "special techniques" to KOPA...

WHY A FIJI WOMAN STOLE A BABY Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/14/2000 - 00:00 By Sanawaka Inoke SUVA, Fiji Islands (April 13, 2000 – Fiji’s Daily Post/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---A Nausori woman who stole a newborn baby from Fiji's main hospital on Monday [has told a court] she was under pressure from her husband's family to have a child. Druma Tavoinayako, 21, pleaded guilty to stealing the baby girl from the Colonial War Memorial Hospital before Magistrate Makereta Waqavonovono in Suva court. Suva lawyer Nepote Vere, representing Tavoinayako, said she stole the baby to please her h...

BODY BLOW TO TERTIARY EDUCATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/29/1999 - 00:00 THE NATIONAL Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea EDITORIAL January 27, 1999 By the end of this year, the University of Papua New Guinea will not be the institution it has been and its intellectual capital will be much reduced. Those words are taken from a staff circular issued by the university’s embattled Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Rodney Hills. They refer to the university council's decision to abolish two faculties and the library, journalism and most of the information programs, and to rai...

THE VOICE OF FIJI’S CHURCHES Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/15/2000 - 00:00 By David Robie © USP Journalism Programme SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 14, 2000 – USP Journalism Programme/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---Fiji's churches have made belated appeals this week for their parishioners to refuse support for rebel leader George Speight's insurrection and for the 31 hostages to be freed. But leaders of the country's most influential church, the Methodist Church, have given mixed messages by condemning the attempted coup, yet apparently also giving tacit support for calls for a Christia...