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Book reviews: 'Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company' and 'Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin'
The Week Magazine
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June 10, 2025
'Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company' by Patrick McGee "Apple's massive investment in China is beginning to look like a Faustian bargain," said Alex Tapscott in the New York Post. The world's first $3 trillion publicly...
The health impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia – archive, 1981
The Guardian
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May 28, 2025
Pacific islanders agitate in the shadow of the bomb By Christopher Price 17 September 1981 A recent Canard cartoon shows Adam and Eve looking at an H-bomb. “Look, H for Hernu,” (the new Socialist defence minister), says Adam. “Yes and for Horror,...
Skaleet and BPCE Payment Services Partner To Offer an Integrated Payment Services Solution to Financial Institutions
Financial IT
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June 6, 2025
BPCE Payment Services, the payment operator of Groupe BPCE specialized in card and transaction processing, and Skaleet, a SaaS provider of next-generation core banking solutions, are strengthening their collaboration to offer fintechs, payment...
China downplayed nuclear-capable missile test, classified New Zealand gov’t papers show
Hong Kong Free Press
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June 22, 2025
China tried to mislead foreign governments in 2024 by playing down the importance of a nuclear-capable missile test over the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand diplomats privately warned in documents obtained by AFP. This handout photograph, taken on...
Islands of Intrigue: Cruising Papua New Guinea
Cruising World
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June 20, 2025
Like clockwork, anywhere we dropped the hook, canoes came out to greet us, to trade and to share stories. Birgit Hackl Pushy islanders circling the boat in their canoes. Drunken rascals harassing or assaulting crews. The constant threat of being...
Hawaiians greet Oregon man as he sails in with cat after quitting corporate job
NBC Connecticut
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May 26, 2025
An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix, reached his destination Saturday, welcomed by cheering fans at the end of a weekslong journey that he documented...
Internet restrictions in overseas territories: Slower speeds, higher prices compared to France -
APA
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The Baku Initiative Group (BIG) has conducted a study on the deliberately implemented policies regarding the state of the internet, speed indicators, pricing policy, and digital restrictions in France’s overseas territories, APA reports. The study...
Man Who Quit Corporate Job to Sail the World With His Cat Arrives in Hawaii
TODAY
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May 24, 2025
Oliver Widger and his cat, Phoenix, have made it to Hawaii after a monthlong sailing expedition that has gone viral on social media. Widger, who quit the corporate world to literally seek new shores, departed from Warrenton Marina on the coast of...
I spent $20,000 to take my kids to a resort in Bora Bora. People thought I was wasting money, but I'd do it again.
Business Insider
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June 21, 2025
When I told people I was spending $20,000 to take my two kids to Bora Bora, the reactions ranged from wide-eyed surprise to outright judgment. "You're taking them to a five-star resort?" someone asked. "Don't you have college to pay for in the...
Paris Air Show 2025: Air Tahiti to launch...
Aviation Business News
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June 19, 2025
Air Tahiti will install the ATR HighLine all-business class cabin interior into one of its four newly ordered ATR 72-600 aircraft. The leading inter-island carrier of French Polynesia is launching a VIP service to start in the second half of 2026....
Reframing the French Indo-Pacific: Wallis and Futuna: Of Monarchies, Catholicism… and Rugby
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
As Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his visits to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore – where he delivered the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue at the end of May – the French president reaffirmed the Indo-Pacific’s strategic importance for both...
A Brave Rescue Team Frees an Entangled Humpback Whale
AOL
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Humpback Whale, Underwater, Calf, French Polynesia, Photography© iStock.com/Baptiste Le BouilWhales continually inspire us with their immense size, complex social structures, and vital role in marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, these gentle giants...
French imperialism in New Caledonia and Pacific targets China
World Socialist Web Site
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June 21, 2025
French president Emmanuel Macron chaired a Pacific-France summit on June 10, on the sidelines of the UN Oceans Conference held in Nice from June 9-13. Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
50 years after ‘Jaws,’ sharks face their own terror
Science News
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June 20, 2025
One June 20, 1975, a fictional great white shark stalked beachgoers on Amity Island — and struck terror into moviegoers around the world. Jaws, based on Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel, was a blockbuster. Its portrayal of sharks as...
Hōkūleʻa crosses equator after challenging trip through doldrums
The Maui News - Hawaii
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The Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia voyaging canoes are expected to see land again in the next week after crossing the equator on their way to French Polynesia. Polynesian Voyaging Society / Jonathan “Sav” Salvador The Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia voyaging...
Ritz-Carlton Winter 2026-27 Itineraries Mark Debut in Polynesia
Cruise Industry News
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The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has unveiled its Winter 2026-27 itineraries, introducing an expanded portfolio of experiences across French Polynesia, Hawaii and Asia-Pacific aboard the Evrima and Luminara. From October 2026 to April 2027, the...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...
New book details family’s two-year sailing journey to the Caribbean islands
Prince Albert Daily Herald
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June 20, 2025
Keith Lacey Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Penticton Herald A Penticton mother has turned a life-changing experience into a new book, chronicling the two years she, her husband, and their three young children spent living aboard a 45-foot...
Pacific news in brief for 20 June 2025
RNZ
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June 19, 2025
An NGO carrying out testing on drugs at an event - including this this bag of cocaine, in Colombia, in 2021. Photo: AFP/ Juan Pablo Pino New Caledonia - cocaine The French Directorate General of Customs says 67 kilograms of cocaine has been seized...