Chrisnrita Aumanu- Leong
@_Chrisnrita_
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•🇸🇧 reporter @ABCNews•Solo-valuan •All views are my own & RT 🚫 endorsements 📧 [email protected]
Solomon Islands
Joined April 2021
One of the great joys of this job: working with brilliant and generous colleagues. Thanks @_Chrisnrita_ and Mark Moore. One more PIF leaders meeting flies by, and it was all the better for you both
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Cracking panel discussion at @LowyInstitute with the splendid @_Chrisnrita_ @MarianKupu @BelindaKora1 and @LiceMovono (with the excellent @MihaiSora) on reporting in the Pacific at a critical moment - I’m bloody proud to call them colleagues
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THE PACIFIC IS BAAAAAACK! Join @alicelolohea, @JonsRaela and the team for season 5 on @ABCaustralia and @abcnews (iview) from tonight 🌴🥥
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Trump’s executive orders are having real-life impacts in the Pacific region, with his ‘America first’ aid freeze leaving local groups scrambling for answers. With @BelindaKora1 and @VoniaV13987 👇 https://t.co/q2rSPZIpre
abc.net.au
From Timor-Leste to Tonga, aid projects across the region have been put on hold. And those in the sector say "the Trump effect" is starting to have real-life impacts on the ground.
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1 dead, confirmed to me by police at Vila Central Hospital. Likely to be more. VCH has a triage centre outside the emergency ward. I saw three people seriously injured on gurneys waiting treatment. This is a mass casualty event.
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CCTV footage of 7.4 Earthquake in Port Vila, Vanuatu December 17, 2024 #earthquake #Vanuatu #terremoto #sismo
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There's pretty horrific damage to infrastructure in Port Vila, Vanuatu, after the 7.3 magnitude #earthquake today. We're seeing flattened/collapsed buildings, rubble everywhere. Thankfully though, the tsunami threat has been cancelled. Thoughts are with the people of Vanuatu RN
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“ Motion withdrawn” by the mover former PM Gordon Darcy Lilo ,simply put he didn’t have the numbers
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Parl on brief suspension to allow deliberations from Speaker’s Chamber on what the mover of the motion say is his constitutional right to defer the motion for Wednesday..over parliamentary standing orders that there are no provisions to defer
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Vote of no confidence looms in Solomon Islands today. A bit of speculation in the papers that Gordon Darcy Lilo is in a strong position. But @_Chrisnrita_ reports govt MPs entered parliament together this morning: seems clear indication Manele still has the numbers. We'll see!
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🇸🇧 PM Jeremiah Manele arriving in Parliament ahead of the #MoNC to be debated today. Numerical strength based on this mornings arrival…shows GNUT with majority (atleast 26 MPs)to defeat motion…what happens next? Follow 🧵
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Women ‘sold’ … marriages ‘like instant coffee’. @_Chrisnrita_ travelled to Makira, Solomon Islands, to find out what really happens at logging camps, and the impact this practice - vital to 🇸🇧 economy - is having on the environment. https://t.co/F3UKcxJCvB
abc.net.au
For the developing country, logging is a catch 22: It is the country's biggest export and a source of income for thousands, but it is causing irreversible environmental damage and a raft of social...
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Commercial logging is massive in Solomon Islands. It's their biggest export and employs thousands of locals. But it's wreaking havoc on the environment and women in rural villages are being exploited. Watch this story from @_Chrisnrita_ & @gabby_marchant
https://t.co/zGGKYNnxBc
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This week on The Pacific: - PNG’s growing NRL gambling obsession, @BelindaKora1 and @HugoNHodge - An update on New Caledonia with @MaclellanNic & @JNaouna - Australia’s first Siva Afi Festival - @_Chrisnrita_ reveals the winner of Pacific Break 2024 https://t.co/SffsP9FyAh
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🇸🇧 PM prioritizes expediting progress of legislations over attendance at the #UNGA instead 6 Ministers from a 16 member delegation will represent the country in all engagements.Taxpayers paying 2.1 M SBD for this trip & his two others later in the yr. 📷 Today’s press conference
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Story: the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat targeted by hackers linked to the Chinese government. Australia has sent teams of cyber experts to Suva this year to help
abc.net.au
The ABC is told the cyber breach was "extensive" and that the group behind the hack was intent on gathering information about the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and its operations.
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Fiji is in the midst of a drug problem. (a symptom of trafficking through the Pacific region). @LiceMovono and I looked into it👇 It is part 1 of a broader investigation that will go air when @abcnews The Pacific program returns to air on Thursday… https://t.co/PD5BLzsLud
abc.net.au
Almost a million tourists come to Fiji every year. But behind the sun and sand, there's a dark side to the islands, with cartels using Fiji to import drugs into lucrative markets — a drug problem...
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Swell of emotions as i started the news with... “Yadra Vinaka Mai, Noa'ia, Mauri, Kaise and BULA! This is Pacific Beat, on @abcnews Radio Australia...... Vaka Turaga Saka ki na vanua o Cakaudrove kei Tailevu…” …. the tears came. They heard Vaka Turaga Saka Ki Na Vanua They
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