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Oceania
A round-up of news from the Pacific islands, plus the election in Palau and New Zealand's hunt for diplomats.
Diplomacy
We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the 'diplomatic pouch', the quaint method of shipping secret documents.
Oceania
Perth's drive to compete with Australian's east coast cities and a flag furore in New Caledonia.
Oceania
National identity in Australia, Tonga and Fiji's territorial dispute and rugby World Cup headache in New Zealand.
Oceania
The king of Tonga is our dapper Style Leader, Australia is a wise old goat, and New Zealand strips its prisoners of the right to vote and smoke.
Oceania
The Solomon Islands men who have gone from government to jail and back to government, and why Samoa is considering a plan to switch timezones.
Oceania
The latest from the Pacific islands, including a sanitation crisis in Tuvalu and the phasing of Vanuatu's handwritten passport.
Talk of the town
Is there a future for local newspapers? We meet the believers from a British octogenarian maverick to a hi-tech Czech publisher and witness triumphs but also a spectacular failure as it happens.
