The Fiji Times: Villagers relocate because of climate change
The Climate Change Unit (CCU) will spend $$200,000 (US$106,000) to relocate a village in Kadavu.
The Fiji Times: Villagers live in tents in the wilderness
For 17 months, families from a village in the interior of Ba in Fiji, lived in makeshift shelters scattered away from their abandoned village site. Villagers vacated the village after a tragic landslide killed a family of four at the height of the floods in 2011 and they lived in the wilderness.
The Fiji Times: Split in chief’s installation
A team of police officers was deployed to the village of Naduri in Macuata to keep the peace after a split over the choice of the new Tui Macuata Ratu Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere.
The Daily Star (Bangladesh): Jamaat shock for police
A constable was shot dead by Jamaat-Shibir men when a police team went to a remote village in Koira upazila of Khulna to arrest Jamaat activists early yesterday.
Philippine Daily Inquirer: PH sends ship to Sabah
The followers of the sultan of Sulu holed up in a village in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, could be flushed out Monday after the expiration on Sunday of a 48-hour extension of the Malaysian deadline for them to leave and the failure of Malacanang’s back-channel efforts to solve the standoff peacefully.
Leftist rebels seize policeman, soldier in S. Philippines
Leftist rebels have abducted a soldier and a policeman in southern Philippines and operations have been launched to rescue the victims, the military said on Friday.
