Vanuatu Religions
VANUATU RELIGIONS. Formerly known as the New Hebrides, Vanuatu is a Y-shaped archipelago of mostly volcanic islands located about sixteen hundred kilometers northeast of the Queensla...
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Vanuatu
Republic of Vanuatu
[French] République de Vanuatu
[Bislama] Ripablik blong Vanuatu
CAPITAL: Port-Vila
FLAG: Red and green sections are divided horizontally by a gold stripe running wit...
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu comprises a Y-shaped archipelago of sixty-five inhabited tropical islands located in the Western Pacific. Formerly known as the New Hebrides, the country obtained independence on July ...
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Vanuatu
POPULATION 196,178PRESBYTERIAN 32 percentANGLICAN 14 percentROMAN CATHOLICISM 13 percentSEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 11 percentCHURCH OF CHRIST 4 percentASSEMBLIES OF GOD 4 percentNEIL THOMAS MINISTR...
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CANBERRA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A 3,000-year-old burial site
in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots
is helping end the mystery over colonisation of the Pacific and
the first P...
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Sydney (dpa) - Serial fraudster Peter Foster was due in a Brisbane
court Tuesday to face money laundering charges relating to a property
deal in the South Pacific, only one ...
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The Solomon Islands government extradited its former attorney general Thursday to face child sex charges in Australia.Julian Moti, an Australian national who was fired earlier this week from his po...
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Sydney (dpa) - Fill a cruise liner with 1,500 unsupervised
teenagers who have just finished school, give them free admission to
nightclubs and bars, and you can virtually gu...
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Area: 488 sq km (188 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 20,100Capital: Melekeok (on Babelthuap) from Oct. 1, 2006Head of state and government:
President
Tommy
Remengesau, Jr.
In early September 2006
P...
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Sydney (dpa) Australia has punished Papua New Guinea for colluding
with the government of Solomon Islands to allow sex-crimes' suspect
Julian Moti escape extradition.
...
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2nd runway opens at Kansai Int'l Airport
OSAKA - Kansai International Airport Co. began operating its
second runway early Thursday, hoping to achieve its goal of becoming
an Asi...
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A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred Monday in the South Pacific
Ocean off the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with
reports from the area of up...
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(EDS: ADDING CONFIRMED DEATH TOLL. QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated
parts of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, with six
people c...
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(EDS: UPDATING DEATH TOLL, MENTIONING PLACES COVERED BY TSUNAMI
WARNING)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred Monday in the South Pacific
Ocean off the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Geological Su...
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