An outbreak of dengue fever in the Solomon Islands has killed three people, infected hundreds more and is straining the medical system of the South Pacific island nation.
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8 Feb 2013
A strong aftershock rattled the Solomon Islands on Friday, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages and forcing the South Pacific nation’s prime minister to forgo a visit to the...
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7 Feb 2013
Disaster relief agencies were scrambling on Thursday to reach tsunami-hit villages in the Solomon Islands, warning the death toll following a powerful 8.0-magnitude quake is likely to rise.
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A major magnitude 8 earthquake jolted the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific yesterday, causing small tsunami waves that killed at least five people and left dozens of homes damaged or destroyed...
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6 Feb 2013
A powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated a tsunami that damaged dozens of homes in the South Pacific island chain on Wednesday, but authorities cancelled warnings for tsunamis on...
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Thousands of people were forced to flee rapidly rising rivers in the Solomon Islands, officials said yesterday as Cyclone Freda intensified into a "destructive" force storm and headed towards New...
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The Chinese community of Honiara is surveying the destruction of their lives, rent by mindless hooliganism in the Solomon Islands' capital over the past few weeks. And Australia is continuing to...
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Solo Lai, a second-generation Solomon Islander, watched in horror from the roof of his electronics shop as rampaging mobs looted and burned Honiara's Chinatown after a disputed election for prime...
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'I have got my shirt and pants - this is all I possess'
Visa waivers and an $8,000 special assistance grant were offered to 37 Solomon Islands evacuees who arrived in Hong Kong...
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300 refugees from Solomons chaos fly into Guangzhou
Hundreds of ethnic-Chinese Solomon Islanders, with 21 Hong Kong ID card holders and their family members among them, arrived in...
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Anti-Chinese unrest in the Solomon Islands is a rare instance of the downside of the dollar diplomacy that the mainland and Taiwan are practising among small South Pacific nations.
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Australia and New Zealand have worked hard to put the politically unstable and economically marginal nations of the South Pacific on a more sustainable footing over the past decade. But last...
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