2013 NEWS ARCHIVE

Honiara will soon benefit from its own Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC) campus following the launch of a SBD14 million (A$1.9 million) partnership between APTC and Honiara’s Don Bosco Technical Institute.

The Australian High Commission in Samoa organises a monthly Fun Run/Walk and Breakfast to encourage healthy exercise and living. The April Fun/Run was in support of the newly formed Lifeline Samoa (Faataua Le Ola) which is specifically targeting suicide awareness and prevention.

Today is ANZAC Day, these were the opening words of HE Bill Dobby NZ High Commissioner in his address at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service, Port Vila Cenotaph overlooking Port Vila harbour yesterday. And on ANZAC Day APTC students from Vanuatu, PNG, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Samoa were outstanding ambassadors for their countries mingled with many Austalians and New Zealanders, who gathered to remember our diggers at a moving ceremony at sunrise. Even the early showers of rain didn’t dampen the ANZAC spirit.