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ABC News
10 hours ago
- Politics
- ABC News
PNG's anti-corruption agency on brink of implosion amid commissioner war
On the program today A war between commissioners leaves Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption agency on the brink of implosion. Rising sea temperatures make 2024 the hottest year on record in the Pacific. Shocking research reveals the lengths seasonal workers are going to, to hide pregnancies whilst overseas. Seasonal workers take comfort in each others cultures whilst working overseas. Fiji Rugby signs a memorandum of understanding with China Rugby. And three nations square off in the Oceania Women's Rugby Championship.
ABC News
a day ago
- Business
- ABC News
Fiji Rugby seeking future financial security by teaming up with China in a development partnership
The decision by Fiji Rugby to sign a memorandum of understanding with China Rugby was based on what the union says was the need to take quick but considered steps to secure the long term viability of the sport in the islands. Jenny Seeto from the union's Board of Trustees was in Beijing to seal the landmark deal. And she says it will reap benefits for Fiji Rugby, in the face of the NRL making fast strides in Fiji and across the Pacific with significant outside financial support. Viewed as one of her country's most successful businesswomen, Ms Seeto says the MoU is based on mutual support for rugby in Fiji and China. And while there may have been an element of diplomacy involved in discussions, she says the potential impact on the union's finances was the key selling point.
RNZ News
3 days ago
- General
- RNZ News
Pasifika Sipoti in brief for 3 June
The Fijiana opened their 2025 season with a game against the Wallaroos. Photo: FRU Media Fiji rugby veterans are returning to the Fijiana 15s team for the 2025 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship. The Fijiana 15s enter this year's tournament as defending champions. FBC reported the returnees include Bitila Tawake, Rusila Nagasau, Asinate Serevi, Iris Verebalavu, and Jade Coates. The tournament will again see Fiji face off against traditional Pacific rivals Tonga and Samoa, serving as a build-up to the women's Rugby World Cup. The first Rugby World Club Cup will be held in 2028. The competition will see 16 teams taking part, with eight qualifying through the Investec Champions Cup and the remainder from Super Rugby and Japan. The BBC reported European Professional Club Rugby chairman Dominic McKay has confirmed the plans. The existing Champions Cup, with teams from England, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, South Africa and Italy, will continue. The Fiji Rakavi Football Union Ltd, the company that now manages Fiji Rugby, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Rugby Football Association (CRFA). FRU board chairman John Sanday said the MOU was signed in Beijing between FRU trustees board representative Jenny Seeto and the CRFA president Wang Yun. Sanday said the agreement will help boost rugby in both countries, with focus on rugby academies, youth exchanges and high-performance programs. Australia and New Zealand have confirmed their teams for the Pacific Mini Games in Palau. Twenty athletes have been selected to represent Australia in the athletics competition, which is set down for 4-9 July in Koror. Nine weighlifters will represent New Zealand, led by Olympian David Liti. The Games, which will feature athletes from 24 Pacific nations across 12 sports, will officially open on 29 June. Meanwhile, the chairman of the organising commitee said the event will be declared 'drug, alcohol and tobacco free'. Vanuatu's women's beach volleyball players, Majabelle Lawac and Shersyn Toko, have returned home with a bronze medal from the FIVB Volleyball Pro Tour Challenge in China, held last month. The duo defeated China 2-1 in the play-off for third position at the event. That win came after earlier competition in other international beach volleyball events in Vietnam and the Phillipines.
South China Morning Post
23-03-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Sevens great says touch rugby's ‘huge selling point' could mean Olympic inclusion
Touch rugby's mixed version was a 'huge selling point' and could allow it to gatecrash the Olympic Games, according to former Hong Kong Sevens superstar Ricky Cheuk Ming-yin. Advertisement Cheuk, who represented the city at last year's Touch World Cup, was elected as a director of Hong Kong, China Rugby in November. He was among a healthy crowd watching Sunday's 2025 Hong Kong International Touch Championships at Happy Valley Recreation Ground, as the ball started rolling for a week-long rugby carnival in the city that will climax with Kai Tak Stadium's first Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. Cheuk said he was 'exploring how to integrate touch and sevens', with a view to the non-contact version providing local players for the Hong Kong sevens teams. A veteran of the 2001 and 2005 Rugby Sevens World Cups, he also underlined his wish to make the touch championships better each year. It currently happens over one 12-hour day, but Cheuk was hoping for a two-day competition as soon as next year. Advertisement That would mirror the midweek Tradition HKFC10s, which provide the competitive curtain raiser for the flagship sevens. Sunday's tournament, which featured 26 sides across three competitions, saw local teams joined by opponents from mainland China, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
