OCEANIA News, Aug 29, 2011

Fiji pull out of Olympic field hockey qualifying AFP SYDNEY — The Australian and New Zealand women's hockey teams have both qualified for the London Olympics after Fiji pulled out of the Oceania Cup qualifying tournament on Monday. The three-team tournament in Hobart from October 5-9 will now be a two ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Port of Tauranga tips 25pc traffic jump New Zealand Herald Photo / Mark Cairns Tauranga's port has been chosen by the world's second-largest container shipping line as the only New Zealand stop-off for its new Oceania Express service. The vessels will initially call every fortnight but once business grows it ... See all stories on this topic »

Experienced squad options for Black Sticks Stuff.co.nz That will be followed by the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament in October, the Champions Trophy in Argentina in January, four home tests against Argentina in March, a four-to-six nations tournament in New Zealand in March-April, and a home series ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

13 years on, Whippy returns Fiji Times THIRTEEN years ago, he represented Fiji in the Oceania Junior Championship and as a teenager. But today Fiji men's basketball captain Leonard Whippy returns to New Caledonia with a different mission to defend the gold medal. A new New Caledonia is what ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer Results Bring Mixed Fortunes for Solomons Solomon Times Online While Guam picked up in the second half and creating some chances of their own, it was no match for one of the giants of Oceania soccer. With a population of just over 10000 the little known Tuvaluan soccer team gave soccer something to smile about ... See all stories on this topic » Solomon Times Online

Major change looming in Fiji Football calendar Fijivillage The Oceania Football Confederation wants the soccer format to be changed in Fiji. Fiji FA's Acting President, Sheik Ibrahim said they are now carrying out final work in organizing the calendar for next year. It has also been proposed that major soccer ... See all stories on this topic » Fijivillage

New service boost for port SunLive MSC national operations director Mark Godfrey says the new service, the Oceania Express Service, has a port rotation of: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Tauranga, Balboa, Long Beach, Melbourne. “MSC recognises the Port of Tauranga as a major New Zealand ... See all stories on this topic »

Lal jets into team Fiji Times "The main reason for me to play in this tournament was to secure my spot in the national side for theOceania Championship. To qualify you need to play at least three out of four national rankings championship." Bala downed former Fiji number one ... See all stories on this topic »

Kane Russell gets Black Sticks call up Newstalk ZB The Black Sticks head to the Oceania Qualifier in October, needing to finish in the top two against Australia and Fiji to earn provisional qualification. Meanwhile, Clarissa Eshuis and Bianca Russell have both been included in the women's preliminary ... See all stories on this topic »

Mini World Cup 2011 Otago Daily Times A special guest, Oceania player of the century Wynton Rufer, displayed his silky skills during the morning and was a hit with autograph hunters. In the mini internationals, the eighth grade mini All Whites were too strong for their Argentina opposition ... See all stories on this topic » Otago Daily Times

Canoe Racing in danger of losing funding Newstalk ZB Miskimmin says the amount of funding will be based on the size of the program. He says if athletes don't qualify boats then funding will be adjusted accordingly. Miskimmin says the boats that have failed to qualify still have a chance at the Oceania ... See all stories on this topic »

Panasonic introduces range of products Himalayan Times Associate Director of Panasonic Corporation, Corporate Management Division for Asia and Oceania, Masaru Maruo, on the occasion, said that Panasonic's corporate vision is to become the No 1 green innovation company in the electronics industry by the ... See all stories on this topic »

GPG leads NZ sharemarket higher Stuff.co.nz MSC, the world's second-largest container line by capacity, announced it would start its OceaniaExpress Service in October, with Tauranga its only New Zealand stop. Port of Tauranga said 40 per cent of the forecast container volume increase this year ... See all stories on this topic »

Wrestling: On the road to Olympic gold The Bay of Plenty Times He has to finish in the top two at next year's Oceania champs in Aussie and do the same at the African Cup in Morocco. Mount Maunganui's Megan Candler also won three medals at the weekend - two in grappling and one in freestyle - with her achievement ... See all stories on this topic »

Bakradze to Visit Singapore, Australia, N.Zealand Civil Georgia The Georgian parliamentary speaker's office said in a press release on Saturday, that the purpose of the visit to Australia and New Zealand "is to establish bilateral contacts with leading countries" of theOceania region, "which will help to promote ... See all stories on this topic »

Playing for their mom's homeland Inquirer.net We feel there is something intrinsically wrong when our television networks telecast basketball tournaments but are not prepared to cover such major events as the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone Group I tie between the Philippines and Chinese-Taipei on ... See all stories on this topic »

Numbers of women at the top shrinking The Australian In the Asia and Oceania region, which includes Australia, women were barely 13 per cent of those in senior management. "Women's absence is seen most profoundly at the top of companies in the key policy and decision-making positions," the report says. ... See all stories on this topic »

The power of prayer Fiji Times PNG reached the final of the Oceania championship last year. Motu said it would be an uphill battle for them to conquer PNG. "It will be tough playing against PNG. We have not played against them for sometime but we are ready to put oa good fight ... See all stories on this topic »

Confirmed: Patty Mills to play in Australian NBL this season A Stern Warning (blog) Mills is already in Australia, preparing for the important Boomers series against the New Zealand Tall Blacks, to be played in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. The series will determine which Oceaniateam gets through to the 2012 London Olympics. ... See all stories on this topic »

Special Report: Afghan heroin traffickers targeting Tanzania, East Africa The Citizen Daily The report further points out that once in East Africa, Afghan heroin flows to Europe, North America, South-East Asia and Oceania – either directly or via other African countries. Increasing flows of heroin to Africa have also led to increases in drug ... See all stories on this topic »

Similarity between two earthquakes Korea Times With territory in Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America including Brazil, Portugal became one of the world's major economic and political powers. The country had undertaken these ventures in the Age of Discovery, transforming itself from the Kingdom ... See all stories on this topic » Korea Times

Getting Libya “Governed Right” Baltic Review Well, in the words of the government of Oceania, “War is Peace.” In a special column for CNN, the Truman National Security Project's Rachel Kleinfeld typifies the message of the foreign policy elite. “It's worth some effort,” Kleinfeld writes, ... See all stories on this topic »

Blaze loses last pre-season match Gold Coast Bulletin News Mark Worthington and Adam Gibson arrive in Australia this week but the Boomers head into camp ahead of next week's Oceania Championship Olympic qualifying series against New Zealand. To read how the pre-season may have uncovered a star for the Blaze ... See all stories on this topic »

Sexual Intercourse With Neanderthals Contributed to Human's Strong Immunity: Study International Business Times DNA inherited from Neanderthals and newly discovered hominids known as Denisovans has contributed to key types of immune genes still present among populations in Europe, Asia andOceania. These gene variants must have helped humans survive while ... See all stories on this topic »

Regional qualifying starts this week ESPN The Asian qualifier and Oceania one, pitting Australia against New Zealand, will be played later in September. The third through sixth-place teams at EuroBasket and the teams finishing 3-5 in Argentina will advance to next summer's Olympic qualifying ... See all stories on this topic »

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