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Ministry of Health sponsors soccer tournament News Leah Lowonbu - July 1, 2018. The money will go towards the 'NCD and Tobacco free' tournament which began on June 15 and will end on July 30.

THE map above illustrates satellite-detected potential ash deposit extent and related exposure and impact caused by the Manaro volcano in Ambae Island. A UNITAR-UNOSAT spokesman said they used Planet imagery, 3m resolution on May 15-16 to capture the image. He said that UNITAR-UNOSAT detected more than 13,500 ha of ash covering almost 34 per cent of the total surface of the island.

IN its monthly Board Meeting on June 27, the VIPA Board of Directors approved and endorsed the following decisions: 1. Approval and endorsement of the new VIPA Business Plan Template and Foreign Investment Application Certificate (FIAC) Application Changes. 2. Changes in the FIAC Certificate Processes.

KEEPING global temperature increases to the lower end of the Paris climate accord would make a dramatic difference to the severity of coral bleaching by mid-century, according to research to be presented to the UN’s World Heritage Committee. The study, conducted by scientists found only four of the 29 World Heritage reefs are projected to experience severe bleaching twice a decade from heat stress by the second half of this century if war ...

THE three-year Vanuatu Red Cross (VRC) project called ‘Supporting community planning 3’, supported by French Red Cross (FRC) and funded by USAid, came to an end today. The project began in July 2015 and was based Vanua Lava, Malekula and Gaua. It established 21 community disaster committees and 20 water and hygiene committees.

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have signed a NZ$7 million agreement to support the prevention and reduction of newborn mortality in Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The ceremony today was attended by Nikenike Vurobaravu, High Commissioner of the Republic of Vanuatu, and John Patteson Oti, High Commissioner of the Solomon Islands in Fiji, and Acting H ...

EFFORTS to support private sector development should be stepped up to boost Vanuatu’s economy, with growth expected to moderate to 3.2 per cent in 2018 and 3 per cent in 2019, says a new Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) report.

VANUATU beach volleyballers Linline Matauatu and Miller Pata created sporting history for Vanuatu tonight, winning a Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Ranked fourth, the Ni Vanuatu pair again showed their class in defeating the 10th-ranked Cypriot pair of Mariota Angelopoulou and Manolina Konstantinou in a convincing 21-14, 21-10, in a little over half an hour. It was Vanuatu’s second Bronze medal ...

PRIME Minister Charlot Salwai has put out a statement to ‘utterly refute’ claims by Fairfax Media that the Vanuatu government has been approached by the Chinese government to set up a military base in Vanuatu. He also refuted that preliminary discussions had been held between the two governments to that end.

MALEKULA MP Sato Kilman says Vanuatu’s Prime Minister should seriously consider what the Political Bloc is asking, not trying to find out about the Solidarity Agreement. Speaking to the Independent Online, Mr Kilman said ‘the Prime Minister should seriously consider what we have asked’. “Because we are not asking for a change of government, we asked him to deal with the issues and these issues matters significantly to our count ...