Kava cola, Vanuatu's answer to energy drinks - Australia Network News
Many fitness devotees in the west swear by energy drinks. Vanuatu, in the Pacific, has developed the anti-energy drink: a kava-based soft drink. Lava Cola is a cola drink with an added kava lactone – the essence of kava, the Pacific’s plant-based ...
Vanuatu To Host Big Tree Business - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 17, 2010 – International forestation company, EC02, aims to plant 3.3. million kiri (paulonia) trees over 20,000 acres of land on the tropical island of Malekula, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. Creating jobs ...
Bandaid trip helps Vanuatu natives - Lakes Mail
COORANBONG sailor Theo Kuiters is about to turn his 40ft luxury yacht into a medical supply ship and needs help to stock it. He is calling for unwanted spectacles and donated Bandaids, bandages, dressings, anti fungals and antibiotic creams and ...
Statement of an IMF Mission at the Conclusion of the ... - International Monetary Fund
The following statement was issued today in Port Vila after the conclusion of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff visit to Vanuatu: “An IMF mission led by Mr. Leif Lybecker Eskesen from the Asia and Pacific Department visited Port Vila ...
Vanuatu aid in doubt after NZ judge gets death threat - Australia Network News
New Zealand could review its aid to Vanuatu, after one of its judges received a death threat while investigating the murder of a prisoner in police custody in Port Vila. The Stuff NZ website reports a member of the paramilitary Vanuatu Mobile police ...
2009 Human Rights Report: Vanuatu - U.S. Department of State
Vanuatu is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 235,000. The head of government, Prime Minister Edward Natapei, governed with a seven-party coalition. The most recent elections, held in September 2008, were ...
Trinity College president to present annual lecture at ... - Herald Times
Over a career spanning four decades, he served in Lebanon, France, Luxembourg, Australia and Vanuatu. From 1989 to 1993, he was the minister in the British embassy in Spain. Over the next 13 years, he served as ambassador in Belgrade, Dublin and Rome ...
NZ reviewing aid to Vanuatu after judge threatened - Stuff
A NEW Zealand judge has received a death threat from a member of Vanuatu's paramilitary police force while investigating the brutal killing of a man in police custody in Port Vila. New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says the threat ...
Vanuatu To Grow Chinese Trees - PR Inside
2010-03-16 06:05:08 - The tropical island nation of Vanuatu is to become the host to thousands of kiri (paulonia) trees. An international forestation company in the South Pacific, EC02, plans to plant 3.3. million kiri (paulonia) trees over 20,000 ...
Hurricane Season 2010: Tropical Storm Ului (South ... - NASA
The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. Sanma is a province located in the northern section of the nation of Vanuatu, and is located on the nation's largest island, Espiritu Santo.
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Netanyahu, Clinton talk after settlement crisis
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Woman convicted of killing 6 newborns
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First deadly rocket in year hits Israel
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U.S. and Russian spacefliers touch down safely
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Clinton, Russia spar over Iran nuclear plant
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