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Osama Bin
Laden dead
A l -Q aeda founder and
leader Osama Bin Laden has
been killed by US forces,
President Barack Obama has
said.
The al-Qaeda leader was
killed in a ground operation
based on US intelligence, the
first lead for which emerged
last August.
Mr Obama said after “a
firefight” US forces took pos-
session of his body.
Bin Laden was accused
of being behind a number
of atrocities, including the
attacks on New York and
Washington on 11 Septem-
ber 2001.
He was top of the US “most
wanted” list.
Crowds gathered outside
the White House in Washing-
ton DC, chanting “USA, USA”
after the news emerged.
Bin Laden approved the
9/11 attacks in which near-
ly 3,000 people died, say-
ing later that the results had
exceeded his expectations.
He evaded the forces of the
US and its allies for almost a
decade, despite a $25m boun-
ty on his head.
His death will be seen as a
major blow to al-Qaeda but
also raise fears of reprisal
attacks, correspondents say.
Mr Obama said he had
been briefed last August on
a possible lead to Osama Bin
Laden’s whereabouts.
It led to intelligence that
the al-Qaeda leader was hid-
ing in a compound deep with-
in Pakistan.
The president author-
ised an operation to “get Bin
Laden” last week, he said,
and on Sunday a small team
of US forces undertook the
operation.
After a “firefight” Bin Laden
was killed and his body taken
by US forces, the president
said. —BBC
WWW.DAILYPOST.VU
Obituary: Osama Bin Laden
O sama B in L aden came
to the world’s attention on
11 September 2001, when
the attacks on the United
States left more than 3,000
people dead and hundreds
more injured.
In a matter of three years,
the Saudi-born dissident
had emerged from obscu-
rity to become one of the
most hated and feared men
in the world.
Osama Bin Laden was
born in 1957, apparently
the 17th of 52 children of
Mohamed Bin Laden, a mul-
timillionaire builder respon-
sible for 80% of Saudi
Arabia’s roads.
His father’s death in a
helicopter crash in 1968
brought the young man a
fortune running into many
millions of dollars, though
considerably less than the
widely published estimate
of $250m.
Mujahideen
While studying civil engi-
neering at King Abdul Aziz
University in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, Bin Laden came
into cont act with teach-
ers and students of the
more conservative brand
of Islam.
Through theological
debate and study, he came
to embrace fundamentalist
Islam as a bulwark against
what he saw as the deca-
dence of the West.
The Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in December
1979 changed Bin Laden’s
life forever. He took up the
anti-communist cause with
a will, moving to Afghani-
stan where, for a decade,
he fought an ultimately vic-
torious campaign with the
mujahideen.
Intelligence experts
believe that the US Central
Intelligence Agency played
an active role in arming and
training the mujahideen,
including Bin Laden. The
end of the war saw a sea
change in his views.
Lucrative investments
His hatred of Moscow
Sports
shifted to Washington after
300,000 US troops, women
among them, were based in
Saudi Arabia, home of two
of Islam’s holiest places,
during the 1991 Gulf War
against Iraq. Bin Laden
vowed to avenge what he
saw as blasphemy.
Along with many of his
mujahideen comrades, he
brought his mix of fighting
skills and Islamic zeal to
many anti-US factions with-
in the Middle East.
American pressure ended
brief sojourns in Saudi Ara-
bia - which removed his
citizenship in 1994 - and
then Sudan, and Bin Laden
moved back to Afghanistan
in January 1996.
The country, in a state
of anarchy, was home to
a diverse range of Islamic
groups, including the fun-
damentalist Taleban militia,
which captured the capital
Kabul nine months later.
Though geographically
limited, Bin Laden’s wealth,
increasing all the time
through lucrative world-
wide investments, enabled
him to finance and control a
continuously shifting series
of transnational militant alli-
ances through his al-Qaeda
network.
Sometimes he worked as
a broker, organising logis-
tics and providing financial
support. At other times, he
would run his own violent
campaigns.
I n Fe b r u a r y 1 9 9 8 , h e
issued a fatwa - or reli-
gious edict - on behalf of
the World Front for Jihad
Against Jews and Cru-
saders, stating that killing
Americans and their allies
was a Muslim duty.
‘Most wanted’
Six months later, two
bombs rocked the U S
embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania. Some 224 people
died and nearly 5,000 were
wounded. He was indicted
as chief suspect, along with
16 of his colleagues.
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[ 2 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 3, 2011
Local News

Is this
By Len Garae
RV 26?
Police confirmed having
the identity of a dark blue car
that was parked at the side of
the road leading to the private
Boat Yard at the end of the Main
Wharf yesterday morning but
said they were not allowed to
release the information except
their boss. No one answered our
phone calls and the message we
left with Police Press Officer was
not returned.
Eye witnesses said the road
towards the Boat Yard looked
like a night patrol rescue squad
in operation at midnight Thurs-
day night. Two unknown dou-
ble cabin vehicles with double
signals and headlights on were
trying to rescue the car that
went off the road, hanging with
its front right wheel in the air
just above the shore.
Asked if the people with the
vehicles were ni-Vanuatu, the
eye witnesses said they looked
like expatriates.
Eye witnesses said the
Number Plate was still on then
and they believed that it was
RV 26. However they could not
confirm if the driver was drunk
but suspected that it might
have been after they left that
the number plate was removed,
either by the occupants to hide
the official identity of the car or
by vandals.
Vehicles with RV in front of
the Number Plates are State- Number Plate less car believed to carry RV 26
owned vehicles.

Wali gold belongs to the

people of Pentecost,
Penama and Vanuatu
By Bob Makin
Chief Luke Fargo of Wali
and Londot has made it clear
to Daily Post that the gold
deposits in a huge stone in
their river and any other gold
which may be found there
belong to the entire communi-
ty and not to any individual.
He emphasized that the
decision had been taken by the
Bilmalvanua Pentecost Council
of Chiefs for the good of eve-
ryone. “We do not agree that
anyone may come and dig out
our gold,” he told this report-
er.
“Many chiefs were present
for a big meeting of the Bil-
malvanua. They were not
just representing themselves.
Together they represented all
the people of Pentecost, north
to south, and they made it
clear the gold belongs to eve-
ryone,” said Chief Luke Fargo.
The confusion followed a
tense situation in South Pen-
tecost last November after the
minister responsible for min-
ing had issued a permit to an
Australian company to further
prospect and drill in the area.
The place concerned is a
sacred site and for the land to
be alienated in such a manner
was considered by the people
to be stealing.
Chief Luke Fargo said he
has had to advise people sev-
eral times already by means of
Radio Vanuatu that the Bilmal-
vanua decided that Vatrum,
the place of the gold, belongs
to all Pentecost people. This
is a decision with which he
entirely agrees.
The chief was speaking
after a Nanggol, the justly cel-
ebrated Pentecost land dive,
when those who had under-
taken the treacherous ritual
joined together in a nakamal
as a string-band bearing the
name of the site of the gold-
bearing rock.
After the land dive, Chief
Luke was anxious to point
out to those attending certain
aspects of the jump. He made
it clear that there are both
male and female land dives.
“Wali, Pangi, Bunlap, Ranwas
and Wanur are places entitled
to present the male Nanggol,”
said the chief. “And the female
version is performed at Sentari,
Sainte Thérèse, Lonorore, Bar-
avet and Ranmawat.
“There are sexual connota-
tions in the pillars of the tower
for diving and the platforms
used from which the young
men jump, and in the vines
which become fastenings. And
there are tabus affecting those
participating, including an
abstinence from sexual activity
for a period prior to the dive.”
The Nanggol is the subject of
a meeting taking place under
the chairmanship of Chief Tel-
kon Watas at Wanur village
presently.
The chief has invited chief-
ly participation from many
villages listed in a radio mes-
sage. Chief Luke Fargo

Administrator vows fireworks
By Len Garae
VNCW Administrator Mar-
yanne Bani has called on former
Chief Executive Officer of VNCW
Jenny Ligo and former President
of VNCW Manina Pakete and all
other women’s leaders to save
their breath and get ready to
clear themselves in connection
to any allegation(s) in her Report
against them in the forthcoming
National Conference in July.
The Administrator was
prompted to speak up when we
asked her to comment on an
urgent call by the former CEO
Jenny Ligo on her “not to mis-
lead the population of Vanuatu
and the Region and make a
mockery of herself” saying as
far as most Port Vila women are
concerned the election of the
Port Vila Town Council last week
is “null and void”.
Ligo, a Woman Activist and
Human Rights Advocator said it
was not true for Bani to say the
VNCW Constitution had never
been reviewed in the last 31
years because it was reviewed
more than three times. “The
last review was approved by the
VNCW Conference was in 2004.
This Constitution is still alive and
workable as there is no Consti-
tutional Review Conference
(called),” Ligo said.
Royal wedding: Vanuatu
tribe soon to hold ‘world’s
last royal wedding party’
The world’s last party to celebrate the marriage of
Prince William and Kate Middleton will certainly be
a joyful affair. But it may not begin for several days.
Two members of the Tanna tribe, who worship the Duke of Edinburgh, proudly show the photo he
sent them in 1980. He is holding a war club the tribe sent to him. Photo: REX
The Yaohannen tribe,
living on a tiny island in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean,
are said to be excited about
the royal wedding – but with-
out radios, phones, television
or the internet, they are una-
ware that it has actually hap-
pened.
Ligo says council election null and void
Administrator Bani (front at right) during election of Port Vila Town Council of Women
“VNCW meetings are consti-
tuted by the VNCW Constitu-
tion whether they are dormant
or not working they have to be
properly called in line with the
Constitution. Otherwise these
meetings are null and void espe-
cially when they are to elect new
leaders of a council”.
She said the “so-called Admin-
istrator” had been the President
of Luganville Council of Women
and she should know better. All
paid members are to receive
notice of the meeting according
to the time allowed which in the
case of Port Vila Town Council of
Women all members have to be
given a 30 days’ notice of calling
Jacob Kapere, from the
Vanuatu Cultural Centre visit-
ed the Yaohannen this week,
where he found the tribe plan-
ning a special celebration to
mark the event. But until he
returns to the village some
time in the next few days, to
tell them that the wedding has
Local News
a conference in order to elect a
new president.
She said regarding all VNCW
meetings, the President is the
one to call and chair the meet-
ing unless she gives the right to
another member to chair the
meeting as it is in the constitu-
tion where the calling of a con-
ference is called by the president
and her board whether her term
is finished or not she has to call
the meeting. Written notice and
Agenda of the conference must
be given to financial members.
Ligo called on the VNCW
leadership under Ms Manina
Pakete to correct the situation
as soon as possible. “Women
happened, the celebrations will
not commence.
“This is a very important day
for them, they feel that Prince
Philip is part of their family,
and his grandson is getting
married, so that is very special
for them,” Mr Kapere said.
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of Vanuatu cannot sit back and
allow a so-called person claiming
to be the administrator of VNCW
becoming a laughing stock for
the women of Vanuatu. Port
Vila women are not represented
in this present election as only
one organization dominated the
meeting and all Port Vila Wom-
en’s groups were not informed.
Procedures should be followed
to elect a new leader for the Port
Vila Town Council of Women,”
she said.
Furthermore she called on
Port Vila women residents, Gov-
ernment Agencies, Lawyers,
Donors and other NGO organi-
zations who have interests in the
vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 3, 2011 [ 3 ]
work of VNCW and women in
this country to take note that the
Leadership of VNCW at present
is still alive under the leader-
ship of Ms Manina Packete and
the VNCW Board and Port Vila
Town council Women is under
Mrs Lesline Malsungai.
“The only rightful person to
call a national conference is the
President of VNCW who is Ms
Manina Pakete and her Board
and the Port Vila Town Council
of Women Conference is under
the recent President Mrs Lesline
Malsungai. These women have
to call those conferences in order
to be legally recognized as stim-
ulated in the VNCW Constitu-
tion,” Ligo said.
Despite the serious accusa-
tions against Bani, she said she
is recognised by the Supreme
Court and mandated by the
same Court to administer the
affairs of the VNCW as its
Administrator.
She said former Minister of
Justice and Community Servic-
es Ralph Regenvanu had tried
to remove her from the VNCW
and she challenged his action in
court and won.
She said if there was any
review of the VNCW Constitu-
tion in the recent past then the
changes neither reflected nor
accommodated the current as
well as the future expectations
of the members, thus a proper
review was warranted.
“Mrs Jenny Ligo has no man-
date to make her remarks where-
as I have a mandate from the
Supreme Court to do my best to
strive to bring back power to the
VNCW,” she said.
She said it was sad for Ligo
to even mention former Pres-
ident Manina Pakete’s name
because she explained, “In the
first place when Ms Pakete was
President of VNCW, it was Mrs
Jenny Ligo who was then CEO
of the Women’s Organisation,
who helped to get rid of her.
Anyway, Miss Pakete’s term of
President expired in February of
2010. Her legal power was sus-
pended by the courts and Mrs
Ligo knows this.
“I want to put VNCW back on
the right track and I am deter-
mined to make sure that those
women leaders who sit on the
fence only to criticize, to make
sure they turn up for the Nation-
al Conference in July. We will
send out invitations to them
and this time around, if they do
not turn up, we are determined
to get the police to escort them
to the Meeting to clear their
names.”
[ 4 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 3, 2011
Photo Page
Pacific Partnership 2011 photos
Spc. Jennifer Thomas, (right) an animal care specialist, holds a dog while Dr. Lydia Tong from World Vets inserts an IV at the Nambouk village
during the Vanuatu phase of Pacific Partnership 2011. Pacific Partnership is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that will make port
visits to Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the Federated States of Micronesia. Also pictured is Capt. Kellie Stewart, officer-in-
charge of veterinary civil assistance program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tony Tolley)
The Pacific Partnership 2011 Band from amphibious transport dock ship USS Cleveland (LPD 7) plays a concert at Hog Harbor after a
community service project at Unity Park in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Cleveland is in Vanuatu for Pacific Partnership 2011. Pacific Partnership
is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that will make port visits to Tonga, is in Vanuatu, and will visit Papua New Guinea, Timor-
Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell/Released)
Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Leuze shows an x-ray to Finbec Finbel, an 11-year-old patient at Northern District Hospital during Pacific Partnership
2011. Pacific Partnership is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that will make port visits to Tonga,
Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia. (Photo By Kristopher Radder)
Members of a New Zealand surgical team operate on the hand Finbec Finbel, an 11 year old patient at Northern District Hospital during Pacific
Partnership 2011. Pacific Partnership is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that will make port visits to Tonga,
Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia. (Photo By Kristopher Radder)
The Pacific Partnership 2011 Band from amphibious transport dock ship USS Cleveland (LPD 7) plays a concert at Hog Harbor after a
community service project at Unity Park in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Cleveland is in Vanuatu for Pacific Partnership 2011. Pacific Partnership
is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that will make port visits to Tonga, is in Vanuatu, and will visit Papua New Guinea, Timor-
Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell/Released)
Musician’s Mate 3rd Class Travis Smilen, the lead singer of The Pacific Partnership 2011 Band from amphibious transport dock ship USS
Cleveland (LPD 7) dances with a local woman after concert at Hog Harbor during a community service project at Unity Park in Espiritu
Santo, Vanuatu. Cleveland is in Vanuatu for Pacific Partnership 2011. Pacific Partnership is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative
that will make port visits to Tonga, is in Vanuatu, and will visit Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell/Released)
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Dear Editor,
Thank yu blong alaoem smol
space long mi blong koment smol
long National Presidential System
bakeken.
Mi laek blong talem thank yu
long olgeta we oli stap comment fin-
ish blong helpem ol pipol blong Van-
uatu long sam understanding before
yumi operate long new system ya
spos hemi God's will.
Lukluk I stap se man, woman,
yangfala mo ol bikinini oli stap
harem nois blong problems blong
government blong yumi especially
instability long country gogo oli fill
headek mo taet tu samtaem.
Yumi ol pipol blong Vanuatu
yumi stap go on blong faenem solu-
tion long instability gogo nogat
nomo.
Ol politician oli campaign long ol
pipol and mekem vow long ol pipol
se taem bae oli go reign antap ya
and putum stop long instability but
practically oli traem gogo; oli never
putum stop long instability long
country. That is why I affectem
every students stat long primary,
Secondary, and university level that
there is nomo hope long future to
put the end long instability.
Yumi mas stopem focus long neg-
Ol bigfala man insaed long bigfala nakamal blong yumi
Dear Editor,
Me stap luk olsem ol bigman
blong yumi long bigfala nakamal blo
youmi tedei oli confusem vision blo
unity mo respect we yumi been
kasem independence from.
Oli misusem "freedom of expres-
sion/choice/movement" blo satisfiem
personal interest blong olgeta wan
yet.
Government hemi just change
nomo last week, bae yumi expectem
hamas mo change before stret time
blong election nekis yia? Why nao
change ya i happen long Holy Week
we i tekem out focus long Creator
mo sustainer blong win we yumi
pulum everydei?
One new government we bae i
p CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Travel will be in your best interest
regardless of whether it is business
or pleasure.
q LEO(July 23-Aug 22)
Opportunities to learn important
information will surface through
discussions with peers or seminars
you attend.
r VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23)
Look closely at motives and honesty
in your personal encounters. Don't
expect anything for nothing and you
won't be disappointed.
VANUATU DAILY POST Tuesday May 03 2011 [ 5 ]
Presidential System
ative impact long current political
system wea I stap affectem yumi
tede.
Why? From yumi never search
blong outlinem positive side from
mind blong yumi I polluted long ol
negative side mekem se yumi lukoat
blong faenem ol negative saed
blong every system wether I gud o I
nogud but yumi kam blong drowem
wan conclusion se every system I
nogud.
That is the same experience we
Moses I fesem wetem ol pipol long
Egypt. Also same experience ya
Father Walter Lini I fesem wetem ol
pipol blong Vanuatu taem oli rule
yet by colonial powers.
Bigfala problem I stap se yumi
talem long God yumi stanap finis
after yumi putum God I stap behind
after yumi stap try hard blong han-
delem ol problems blong yumi
bakeken.
Yumi putum trast long man espe-
cially ol MPs blong yumi blong
putum end long ol problem we
olgeta tu oli kat problem long home
and narafala ples bakaken. Yumi no
lego long hand blong God we hem
I no kat any problem blong hem I
dealim.
Hem I very surprising we yumi
stap bae i save mekem wan bigfala
change/development long ol manis
we i stap before general elections?
Mani we oli spendem from ol
changes ya, oli no save yusem blo
helpem ol man long aelan blong
sapotem olgeta wetem life blong
olgeta....eg..Pem wan Ship blo trans-
portemcopra/cacao lo Torba/Malam-
pa?Ol vatu ya yumi save spendem
long some activity/development blo
benefitem everyone. Vanuatu hemi
wan country we hemi benefit/depend
bigwan lo ol aid donors outside blong
sapotem ol development blong coun-
try blo yumi. So yumi no spend olsem
se Vatu hemi grow lo ol trees we
yumi no sa fe short long hem one
day.
s LIBRA(Sept. 24 -Oct. 23)
Use your intellectual approach to
get the best results.
t SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)
Rewards for past good deeds will
highlight your day. Be primed to use
your intellect in order to get what
you want.
u SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21)
Your dramatic nature may be too
much to handle. If you take on too
much of a financial burden you may
make yourself ill.
pray that God bae hem I blestem
yumi finis after yumi stap outlinem
disadvantage blong ol system more
than ol positive way we God I kat
blong ansarem ol prayers blong ol
pipol blong hem. Bible I se yu
testem spirit blong identifaem se
which one now hem I stret spirit
blong God.
So encouragement blong mi I go
long yu as the political science stu-
dent that testem system blong gov-
ernment blong faenem which one
now hemi stret answer blong prayer
blong ol pipol blong Nation from
God long Heaven.
Me appeal I go long ol young
leader blong tumoro se yumi no
stap insaed long soup, be yumi mas
move wetem courage and trast in
God that which system nao hemi
stret answer blong ol prayers blong
ol people. From spos yumi continue
blong swim insaed long soup bae
yumi never kam gud. Moses hemi
aot long soup; that is why Israel I
kam free. So pipol blong Vanuatu
we i need to hold hands together in
supporting Presidential system for
the good of our nation.
Albert Samuel
(Ohlen Freshwind)
Sapos ol bigfala man blo yumi oli
nogat trust long olgeta yet inside
long nakamal blong yumi, how nao
yumi ol smosmol man bae yumi gat
trust long olgeta we oli mekem ol
decision we oli affectem yumi lo
grass roots??
Hemi bigfala hope mo prayer
blong me se government wetem
leaders long opposition blong tedei
i save lukluk long bigfala picture mo
no lukluk long ol smosmol diffrences
we i stap inside lo wanwan political
party.
Smol Man Outside
Long Nakamal
J CAPRICORN(Dec 22.- Jan. 20)
Compromise if you have to, to avoid
verbal battles. You will have the
getup and go to contribute a great
deal to groups of interest.
K AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19)
Try to include friends and relatives
in your activities.
x PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)
Don't be too quick to judge your
position or surroundings at work.
Partnerships could be tense.
[ 6 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Monday May 2, 2011
Obituary: Osama Bin Laden
o From Front Page
Almost overnight, Bin Laden
became a major thorn in the
side of America. A byword for
fundamentalist Islamic resist-
ance to Washington, he soon
appeared on the FBI’s “most
wanted” list, with a reward of
up to $25m on his head.
The US fired 75 sea-
launched cruise missiles into
six training camps in eastern
Afghanistan in a failed attempt
to kill him. They missed their
target by just one hour.
As well as the African bomb-
ings, Bin Laden was implicat-
ed in the 1993 bombing of
the World Trade Center in
New York, a 1995 car bomb in
the Saudi capital Riyadh and
a truck bomb in a Saudi bar-
racks, which killed 19 US sol-
diers.
“I always kill Americans
because they kill us,” he said.
“When we attack Americans,
we don’t harm other people.”
In the case of the bombs in
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam,
his words rang hollow. The
vast majority of the dead
and injured were African, not
American.
The arrogance of wealth
saw Bin Laden make the gov-
ernment of Kazakhstan a mul-
ti-million dollar offer to buy
his own tactical nuclear weap-
on.
It comes as no surprise,
then, that both the US and
Israel are believed to have
sent assassination squads after
him.
Cult status
Then came the events of
11 September 2001. Two
hijacked aircraft smashed into,
and destroyed, the twin tow-
ers of the World Trade Center
in New York.
Another aircraft ploughed
into the Pentagon in Washing-
ton and a fourth crashed in
a field in Pennsylvania. Alto-
gether more than 3,000 peo-
ple died in the attacks, which
led to the US-led operation
against the Taleban.
Allied forces moved into
Afghanistan late in 2001. At
the time, it was believed that
Bin Laden might have been
killed during the battle for the
Tora Bora cave complex.
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He added that the tribe
would hold a special ceremo-
ny and roast a pig in honour of
the royal wedding.
“There will be a big feast
and everyone from the village
will take part, there is a big
population there,” he said.
The Yaohannen inhab-
it a remote corner of Tanna, a
small island that makes up part
of the nation of Vanuatu, some
10,000 miles from Britain.
But they are linked to the
Windsors through their unique
belief system, which over the
In reality, he had slipped
across the border into Paki-
stan, a country in which he
achieved the sort of cult status
usually reserved for pop stars
or film actors.
In February 2003, an audio
tape, purporting to be of Bin
Laden, was delivered to the al-
Jazeera television company.
Of the impending US-led
invasion of Iraq, the voice said:
“This crusaders’ war concerns,
first and foremost, all Mus-
lims, regardless of whether the
Iraqi socialist party or Saddam
remain in power.
“All Muslims, especially
those in Iraq, should launch a
holy war.”
The US conceded that the
voice was probably Bin Lad-
en’s.
Careful timing
The last known sighting of
Bin Laden by anyone other
than his very close entourage
remains in late 2001 as he
prepared to flee from his Tora
Bora stronghold.
He was widely assumed to
have travelled east, across into
Pakistan to be given hospitali-
ty and shelter by certain local
Pashtun tribesmen loyal to the
Taleban and opposed to their
decades has come to hold the
Duke of Edinburgh as a deity.
The tribe both worships the
Duke and considers him to be
a part of their extended fam-
ily and they have been anx-
iously awaiting the auspicious
occasion of his grandson’s
wedding.
“They will put on a cus-
tom dance and display pho-
tographs that they have of
Prince Philip and special
objects, it is a very happy
time for them,” explained Mr
Kapere.
“They would love to receive
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The September 11, 2001 attacks on the twin towers in New York. Inset: Osama bin Laden. Source: Supplied
own government led by Presi-
dent Pervez Musharraf.
The hunt for Bin Laden took
a dramatic turn with the arrest
in Pakistan, in 2003, of Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed.
The head of al-Qaeda’s
operations and the suspected
mastermind of the Twin Tow-
ers attack, it seemed as though
the net had begun to close in
on Bin Laden himself.
A major offensive to cap-
ture Bin Laden was launched
by the Pakistani army along
the Afghan border in May-
July 2004.
But a year later, Mr Mush-
arraf admitted the trail had
gone cold.
Though al-Qaeda has been
prolific in issuing audio mes-
sages, often on the internet
and featuring the network’s
second-in-command, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, videos of Bin
Laden himself have been
rare.
His appearances have been
carefully timed and aimed,
analysts say, at influencing
Western public opinion by Madrid bombings - and days timed to quell rumours that he el, not, as he was to many in
driving a wedge between cit- before the US election. had been dead for some time. the West, a terrorist with the
izens and their leaders. A second surfaced as the To his supporters, Bin blood of thousands of people
One such video was issued sixth anniversary of the 11 Laden was a fighter for free- on his hands.
in 2004 - the same year as the September attacks approached, dom against the US and Isra- —BBC
a photograph of the married visit. But it seems the Duke’s waiting for a gift in return for a a photograph back. He even
couple to add to their collec- absence has not dented the pig they had given to a British sent the tribe a letter of con-
tion.” high regard with which the officer some years before. The dolence when their chief died
The people of Yaohnanen Yaohannen hold him. tribe sent a letter to Port Vila, last year.
believe the Duke is descend- The villagers’ belief that asking where their gift was and In 2007, members of the
ed from one of their spirit he is some kind of God seems inquiring about the Duke. tribe travelled to Britain as
ancestors and that eventually to centre on a trip that the In response the British deliv- part of a Channel 4 programme
he will return to live among Queen and Duke made in ered a framed portrait of the Meet the Natives. Their visit
them and sleep in a hut and 1974 to Vanuatu aboard Bri- Duke, and the worship began. culminated in an off-screen
hunt wild pigs with his tribe. tannia. And it has not exactly been dis- audience with the Duke, where
They claim he promised Tannese legend has it that couraged by the Duke, who gifts were exchanged.
them more than 30 years ago during a reception at the con- seems happy to keep the adu- All his correspondence,
that he would return. sulate in the capital Port Vila, lation coming. newspaper clippings about
However the expected the Duke shook only the hands Over the years the villagers him and his portraits are kept
date of his return, the Duke’s of men from Tanna. have sent the Duke a “nal nal” in a hut that has become a
89th birthday on June 10 This news reached the resi- hunting club, which he duly shrine.
2010, passed without a royal dents of Yaohnanen, who were posed with in London, sending —Telegraph.co.uk

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Today in
history May 3
1937
Margaret Mitchell won the
Pulitzer Prize in fiction for
Gone With the Wind.
1948
The Shelley v. Kraemer
Supreme Court
decision stated that it
is unconstitutional for
a court to enforce a
restrictive covenant which
prevents people of a
certain race from owning
or occupying property.
1979
Margaret Thatcher
became the first woman
elected prime minister of
England.
1986
At the age of 54,
legendary horse jockey
Bill Shoemaker became
the oldest person to win
the Kentucky Derby,
riding Ferdinand to
victory.
1999
Kansas and Oklahoma
were hit by an outbreak of
more than 55 tornadoes,
including one measured
at F5 on the Fujita scale.
2003
New Hampshire’s symbol,
the granite Old Man of
the Mountain, collapsed
in the state’s Franconia
Mountains.
Solution to your Sudoku puzzle
Samoa
Samoa opposition leader says
free New Year’s drinks cost
him his parliamentary seat
The outgoing Tautua
Samoa party leader says he’s
disappointed to have lost
his parliamentary seat but
accepts the election court’s
ruling that’s found him guilty
of bribery and treating.
The election petition was
brought against the Opposi-
tion leader by an unsuccessful
candidate of the ruling HRPP
in the Vaisigano No. 1 con-
stituency on Savaii in March’s
general election.
Vaai Papu Vaelupe says his
actions at New Year have been
Regional News
used against him and he’s
now barred from standing in
an election for ten years.
“It’s two drinks. And brib-
ing is money. Money I gave to
one of the top orators of our
district here, as a New Year’s
gesture. But he held onto it.”
Vaai Papu Vaelupe says the
Tautua party plans to meet
tomorrow to appoint the
new opposition leader and
the next Tautua candidate to
stand in a probable by-elec-
tion.
—RNZI
Papua New Guinea told
a whole of government
solution needed to
booze problem
The deputy leader of the
Papua New Guinea opposi-
tion, Bart Philemon, says the
country’s problems with alco-
hol cannot be addressed on a
piecemeal basis.
Mr Philemon says PNG
needs a national policy on
how to cope with what a
recent report called a culture
of intoxication.
He says as well as better
enforcement and new legis-
French Polynesia allows sacked
ministers to be re-instated
T he president of F rench
Polynesia’s assembly, Jacqui
Drollet, says the five ministers
sacked by the previous presi-
dent, Gaston Tong Sang, in
February can return to their
assembly seats immediately.
In a statement, Mr Drollet
says he has been advised
their stand-down period has
Suibaea promises decentralization
M alaita premier edwin
Suibaea has reiterated his
government decentralization
policy to the people of AGAM
on Friday.
He said his government
will undertake a reform to
spread development to all
parts of Malaita.
“ We h a v e c r e a t e d a
regional framework when
five regional ministers were
appointed,” he said during
the visit to Central Kwaraea.
“The five ministers will be
posted to the five regions,
Malaita Outer Islands, South-
ern, Northern, Central and
Eastern.
“We believe in decentrali-
zation because it’s the power
base of the region,” Mr
Suibaea said.
He said the reason for the
1,000 Tongans seeking seasonal work in Australia
It’s estimated almost 1000
Tongans are looking to travel
to Australia to work under
the Pacific Seasonal Worker
Scheme.
Hundreds of people have
already arrived in Australia in
vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 03 , 2011 [ 7 ]
PNG
lation, it involves changing
attitudes to alcohol and this
would need a whole of gov-
ernment approach.
Mr Philemon says the
Department of Community
Affairs has laid out ideas but
it doesn’t receive any state
funding to undertake its
work.
“They have done better
now under Dame Carol Kidu
because of her tireless effort
Tahiti
been reduced by a month,
ending on May the 1st.
The five were sacked amid
a dispute over the 2011
budget and amid party splits,
resulting in the assembly
passing one budget and the
president making his the offi-
cial one.
Last week, one of the
Solomons
Edwin Suibaea
reform was because people’s
voice was not heard in the
higher level.
“We planned to create a
regional assembly as well,”
Tonga
recent weeks to work on the
citrus harvest, but many more
are still hoping for a job.
The scheme was intro-
duced in 2008 to help Aus-
tralia’s farmers overcome
labour shortages.
in trying to raise the level of
that very important depart-
ment, but still it hasn’t got suf-
ficient manpower, no financial
resources, to back it up. So
there’s a lot of good policies
that she has pronounced that
remain on paper as policy and
that’s the whole of government
problem.”
PNG deputy opposition
leader, Bart Philemon.
—RNZI
five former ministers, Teva
Rohfritsch, announced that
he would quit the assembly to
return to the private sector.
This means the next politi-
cian on the Tahoeraa Huiraat-
ira list, Rene Temeharo, will
get Mr Rohfritsch’s assembly
seat.
—RNZI
he said.
“This is to allow you peo-
ple to take part in the assem-
bly and voice your concern.”
Solomon Star
And while it’s unlikely that
all Tonga’s job seekers will
find work, the demand for
Pacific labour is expected to
keep rising.
Radio Australia

Poland hunts for Pope
John Paul II’s sainthood-
sealing miracle
The search is on in
Poland for the miracle, the
act of healing, that will clinch
John Paul II’s elevation to
sainthood.
As hundreds of thousands
fell to their knees across
the nation to celebrate their
countryman’s beatification
in Rome yesterday, there
seemed little doubt that Poles
already regarded him as Saint
John Paul.
No more so than in his
birthplace, the town of
Wadowice in the foothills of
the Beskidy mountains.
“The Holy Father was
already a saint when he was
alive,” said Ewa Filipiak, the
Afghan child suicide bomber kills 4
The start of the Taliban’s
spring offensive in
Afghanistan has been marked
by a 12-year-old suicide
bomber, who killed at least
four people and injured a
dozen others.
Wearing a suicide vest, the
boy detonated his explosives
in a busy marketplace in the
south-eastern province of
Paktika.
Police say the bomber is
thought to be the country’s
youngest suicide bomber.
Most of the victims of the
blast were civilians, including
a mother and child who were
severely injured.
T h e Ta l i b a n c l a i m e d
responsibility for the attack
and several other armed
assaults and blasts across the
country.
Poland
Pope John Paul II visits Melbourne in 1995. Source: HWT Image Library
Mayor.
“Now there is no room for
doubt.”
To become a saint the
Catholic Church must credit
miracles to a candidate.
Pope Benedict XVI declared
that a French nun had been
cured of Parkinson’s dis-
ease by John Paul II after his
death.
John Paul II needs one
more confirmed miracle to
become a full saint
His home town yesterday
was full of fresh-faced pil-
grims staring up at the video
transmission from Rome, as
well as ageing contemporar-
ies of the former Pope, who
Afganistan
Three children were also
killed in an ambush on a
police convoy in Logar, and
several people were injured
by a bicycle bomb in Ghazni
province.
Another 13 civilians were
wounded when a bomb
attached to a bicycle parked
in front of Ghazni police
headquarters exploded on
Sunday.
Five of the wounded
were in critical condition,
said head of Ghazni hos-
pital, Mohammad Ismail
Ibrahimzada.
No-one has so far claimed
responsibility for the attacks
but Mr Hussain blamed
Taliban insurgents.
The Taliban announced
their spring offensive would
start on Sunday, with spring
World News
was born Karol Wojtyla.
One was Eugeniusz Mroz,
90, who was at school with
Wojtyla. “It’s a great joy to be
alive to see this,” he said.
Halina Kwiatkowska, a
former actress who played
in the same theatre group
as Wojtyla - and who always
denied rumours that she
was a former girlfriend
- remembered him as “a
handsome young man, very
sporty, a great skier who
decided early on for the
priesthood”.
Father Pawel Ptasznik, 48,
to whom the Pope would dic-
tate his thoughts for future
encyclicals and homilies, said
and summer the tradition-
al fighting season in the
country.
Head of the United Nations
Mission in Afghanistan,
Staffan de Mistura, is urg-
ing the Taliban, coalition and
Afghan forces to avoid civil-
ian casualties.
“What we are worried
about, and I think every
Afghan is worried about, is
whether the Afghan people,
the Afghan civilians will be
again the victims of a long
conflict,” he said.
And that is exactly what
happened on day one of the
Taliban’s latest campaign.
The ambushes and blast
may have been targeted at
police and the military, but
civilians have made up the
majority of the casualties.
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that he expected John Paul
II’s canonisation soon: “This
is not a procedural matter
any more. A miracle will suf-
fice. As soon as one has been
established, it should take
about a year.”
A phial of the late Pope’s
blood has been placed in
St Peter’s, Rome, and in a
church in Lagiewniki, close
to Cracow, where 100,000
pilgrims prayed yesterday.
The hope is that the blood
will contribute to a miracle.
Relics from the Pope, usu-
ally clothing, are said by
priests already to be helping
the sick.
—The Times
Civilians are increasing-
ly getting caught up in the
violence that has blighted
Afghanistan since a US-led
invasion in 2001 ousted the
Taliban from power.
The United Nations says
last year was the deadliest
for civilians since the con-
flict began with 2,777 killed
- a 15 per cent increase on
2009.
Three-quarters of the
deaths were caused by attacks
linked to the insurgents, with
improvised bombs the big-
gest killers. They are also
the main cause of casualties
to Afghan and international
troops in the country.
There has been a recent
spike in suicide bombings, a
key Taliban tactic.
—Radio Australia
IN FOCUS
China hotel fire kills 10, injures 35
A fire at a hotel in north-eastern China has killed 10
people and injured 35. State media says the blaze broke
out about 3:30am local time at a hotel operated by the
Chinese budget hotel chain Home Inns in Tonghua city in
Jilin Province. The victims died of smoke inhalation after
the fire started in the stairwell and sent thick plumes of
smoke to the upper floors of the hotel, according to the
city’s publicity department. The injured, including three in
critical condition, were taken to hospital. Authorities are
investigating the cause of the blaze.
Radio Australia
14 Chinese jailed over poisonous milk
powder
Fourteen people have been jailed in China for selling
milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical
melamine. State media says two of those arrested were
given life sentences. In 2008, at least six children died
and nearly 300,000 fell ill after drinking powder bulked
out with melamine. Observers say despite tougher
sentences introduced since then, cases of the illegal
practice continue to be uncovered.
Radio Australia
Disaster-hit Japan to continue Africa aid
The Japanese government says it will maintain all
development aid to Africa despite pressing
reconstruction costs at home. Government spokesman
Satoru Satoh says Japan has been “deeply touched” by
an outpouring of support from African countries in
response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and
that an earlier decision to cut back on foreign aid has
been reversed. “After the earthquake and tsunami we had
received a lot of warm and heart-felt sympathy and
support from all over the world, including Africa,” Mr
Satoh said. “We used to support African development
and this time Africa supported us,” he said. “In spite of
the disaster Japan is committed to continue our
contribution to the international community” and its
contribution to peace, prosperity and development in
Africa.” Radio Australia
Alcohol linked to 20 per cent of breast
cancer cases
The Australian Cancer Council says alcohol is a
much bigger contributor to cancer than previously
thought, adding that the latest evidence suggests
drinking is the cause of 5 per cent of all cancer cases
in Australia. The figure rises to more than 20 per cent
for breast cancer cases. Australian Cancer Council
chief executive Professor Ian Olver says the evidence
of the link between alcohol and cancer is very strong.
Professor Olver says it is correct to say alcohol causes
cancer. He says it is a Class 1 carcinogen, meaning it
is just as likely to cause cancer as tobacco or
asbestos. He says is it important that women at risk of
breast cancer know that cutting their alcohol
consumption is a way of reducing their chances of
developing the disease. “Originally we had linked
alcohol with rather rarer cancers like liver and head
and neck cancer, but the newer data is that the very
common cancers, bowel cancer and surprisingly to us,
breast cancer, [are also linked],” he said. “We know
alcohol does interfere with the balance of female
hormones, so there is a very strong link with how it
could cause something like breast cancer, but we
didn’t expect it to be quite that high.” Professor Olver
says reducing alcohol consumption will reduce the risk
of cancer but he says it would be wrong to assume
that cutting consumption by half would also result in the
same reduction in cancer risk. He says the more alcohol
a person consumes, the more chance they have of
getting cancer. Professor Olver says the risk of cancer is
quite small if a person consumes only a couple of
alcoholic drinks per day “I mean it is like everything else.
There is a balance here and that’s why when the
[National Health and Medical Research Council] came
out and said ‘look, two standard drinks a day is probably
relatively safe’, we would agree with that,” he said.
Radio Australia

The challenges of the new Air France flight data
media at heart of World Press recorder recovered
Freedom Day celebrations
New Frontiers, New
Barriers” is the theme of
t h i s y e a r ’ s Wo r l d P r e s s
Freedom Day, celebrated on
3 May, with major events in
Washington DC and New
York (USA), alongside local
and regional events all over
the world.
The Washington confer-
ence (1 to 3 May), co-organ-
ized by UNESCO with the
U.S. State Department and
over 20 civil society partners,
will examine the growing
role of the internet, the emer-
gence of new media and the
dramatic rise in social net-
working in recent years. The
Director-General of UNESCO,
Irina Bokova, will open the
A government soldier watches civilians fleeing an area held by Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka April 24, 2009. [AFP]
Sri Lankan president rejects war crimes probe
Sri Lanka’s president has
rejected calls for a war crimes
probe after a UN finding of
“credible evidence” govern-
ment forces committed atroc-
ities in their final offensive
against Tamil Tiger rebels in
2009.
Mahinda Rajapaksa turned
down demands for an investi-
gation in a speech to several
thousand people at a public
protest against the findings in
Colombo.
Last week the UN pub-
lished the findings of a three-
member panel appointed
by Secretary-Seneral Ban
Ki-moon to advise him
on issues of accountabili-
ty related to the end of the
war, despite Sri Lankan
objections.
The report has renewed
World
conference alongside Judith
McHale, Under Secretary of
State for Public Diplomacy
and Public Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
Speakers at the confer-
ence will include bloggers
and internet journalists from
North Africa and the Middle
East, as well as other media
and freedom of expression
professionals from all over
the world.
On 3 May, Ms Bokova
will award the UNESCO/
Guillermo Cano Press
Freedom Prize. Imprisoned
Iranian journalist Ahmad
Zeidabadi is the winner of
this year’s prize. The award-
ceremony will take place at
Sri Lanka
Western pressure on Sri
Lanka to submit to an inter-
national probe over alle-
gations that thousands of
civilians were killed at the
end of its 25-year war with
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE).
Sri Lanka has since accused
the West of double standards
in its stance on Colombo’s
offensive to defeat a group
that had been on the terror-
ism lists of the UN and more
than 30 countries, including
the United States.
“This government fed
the enemy which fought
against it, using a human
shield of 300,000 people,”
said Mr Rajapaksa, allud-
ing to attempts by govern-
ment agents to provide food
to hungry civilians in Tiger-
World News
the National Press Club in
Washington DC (3.30 to 5
p.m.).
This year’s World Press
Freedom Day also marks
the 20th anniversary of the
Windhoek Declaration for the
promotion of free and plural-
istic media. The Declaration
was adopted after a con-
ference held in Windhoek
(Namibia) on the develop-
ment of a free African press.
It emphasized the importance
of an independent press for
the development and pres-
ervation of democracy and
economic development. Two
years later, the UN General
Assembly established World
Press Freedom Day.
held areas only to end up
feeding rebels who held them
at gunpoint.
“What the government did
was protect innocent civilians
from the clutch of terrorists.”
The UN panel, which did
not have an investigative
mandate, has accused Sri
Lankan government troops
of killing tens of thousands
of civilians and said there
was “credible evidence” war
crimes were committed by
both sides.
But the elimination of
the LTTE, which carried out
hundreds of suicide bomb-
ings and attacks on civil-
ians during the insurgency,
means the government
would bear the main brunt
of any prosecutions.
Sri Lanka’s foreign minis-
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The anniversary will be
commemorated at a spe-
cial event at United Nations
Headquarters in New York
on 4 May. On the same day
in Windhoek, a regional con-
ference will be held to review
the future of the media in
Africa. A publication ana-
lyzing media freedom in
Africa over the past two dec-
ades will be launched on this
occasion.
Also noteworthy are the
celebrations of World Press
Freedom Day in Tunisia and
Egypt, where journalists are
now able to work more freely
and exercise the right to free-
dom of expression.
—UNESCO
try has condemned as “divi-
sive” the release of the UN
report, which was pub-
lished before the findings
of Sri Lanka’s own Lessons
Learned and Reconciliation
Commission.
Mr Ban says the UN can-
not act on the ad visory
panel’s recommendation
to investigate, saying this
could only happen if Sri
Lanka agreed to a probe or
if the UN Security Council
or Human Rights Council
voted to take action.
Sri Lanka has support for
its opposition to a probe
from Russia and China on the
Security Council, but has yet
to secure sufficient backing
from the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva.
—The Australian
vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 3, 2011 [ 9 ]
Air France
One of two flight record-
ers from an Air France plane
that crashed in 2009 off the
coast of Brazil has been recov-
ered, officials say.
France’s Bureau of
Investigation said in a state-
ment that the device was “in
good physical condition”.
French search teams last
week found the outer casing of
the so-called black box record-
er, but not its memory.
The Air France Airbus plane
went down in the Atlantic on 1
June 2009, killing all 228 peo-
ple on board.
Cockpit conversations
The wreckage was discov-
ered last month after a long
search of 10,000 sq km (3,860
sq miles) of sea floor.
The remains of the plane
were found only on a fourth
attempt, using robots capable
of operating 4,000m (13,120ft)
below the ocean’s surface.
The Paris-bound Air France
jet went down after running
Rome
Mugabe in Rome
for beatification of
Pope John Paul II
Zimbabwean President
Robert Mugabe has arrived in
Rome for the beatification of the
late Pope John Paul II.
An EU travel ban forbids him
from visiting member states but
the Vatican, where the ceremo-
ny will take place, is a sover-
eign state and not in the EU.
Mr Mugabe, a Roman
Catholic, has been allowed to
transit through Italy.
Despite the travel ban, Mr
Mugabe went to Rome for the
funeral of John Paul II in 2005
and for UN food agency confer-
ences in 2008 and 2009.
The sanction on Mr Mugabe
was imposed in 2002 over
human rights abuses.
Italy’s foreign ministry said
it had requested an exemption
from the EU travel ban for Mr
Mugabe.
A Vatican spokesman said Mr
Mugabe had not been person-
ally invited but as the head of
a state with which the Vatican
has relations he was entitled to
attend.
In all, 22 world leaders will be
in Rome to celebrate the beatifi-
cation of the Polish-born Pope.
A Vatican spokesman said 87
international delegations had
so far indicated they would be
attending Sunday’s solemn cer-
emony in St Peter’s Square.
Hundreds of thousands
of pilgrims - including up to
a quarter of a million from
into an intense high-altitude
thunderstorm, four hours fol-
lowing take-off from Rio de
Janeiro.
Those on board came from
more than 30 countries, though
most were French, Brazilian or
German.
Experts say the data in
the flight recorders - which
records cockpit conversations
- is the only hope of finding
out why the plane crashed
into the sea.
But one expert told the
Associated Press that the data
recorder’s information may yet
prove unusable, as it was sub-
jected to underwater pressure
for nearly two years.
“We can’t say in advance
that we’re going to be able to
read it until it’s been opened,”
a spokeswoman told the news
agency.
The data recorders are
expected to be sent back to
Paris for testing.
—BBC
Poland alone - are expected to
cram the square.
Miracle
On Friday, John Paul II - who
is buried in three coffins - was
exhumed from his tomb in the
Vatican Grottoes.
He is to be reburied on
Monday in the chapel of
St Sebastian in St Peter’s
Basilica after the beatification
ceremony.
Beatification, or declaring a
person “blessed”, is the neces-
sary prelude to full sainthood.
For this to happen, the
Vatican must declare the person
to have performed a miracle.
In John Paul’s case, a
49-year-old French nun, Sister
Marie Simon-Pierre Normand,
said she and her fellow nuns
prayed for the intercession of
the pope after his death to cure
her from Parkinson’s Disease.
Her sudden cure had no log-
ical medical explanation and
she later resumed her work as
a maternity nurse, the Vatican
says.
There have been reports
that Sister Marie has fall-
en ill again since her recov-
ery and that her diagnosis with
Parkinson’s Disease may have
been incorrect.
If the late Pope is declared to
have performed another miracle
he will be eligible for canonisa-
tion as a saint.
—BBC
[ 10 ] vanuatu Daily Post | Tuesday May 3, 2011
On
Identity as broadband contraband
an online forum last
week computer criminals were
advertising their wares. At
1.42pm on Thursday a sell-
er called Duong from Viet-
nam was putting up for sale
fresh dumps of information
with dates of birth, address-
es and credit card numbers
stolen from consumers. He
explained he had "very afford-
able and high quality dumps"
that could be delivered within
15minutes.
In the world of online theft
such dumps have become a
thriving trade. A suite of per-
sonal details on an individu-
al can be bought for as little
as $US20 ($18). Samples can
often be obtained free or can
be viewed on the forums, with
the addresses, home telephone
numbers and MasterCard
details of unsuspecting bank
customers on view.
The prize is not just a stolen
credit card but also an individ-
ual's online identity - including
email addresses, passwords
and security questions - which
can unlock several accounts.
"This is an organised crime
marketplace," says Andrew
Blyth, head of the informa-
tion security research group at
the University of Glamorgan in
south Wales.
"Once they've got a user-
name and password, criminals
can go to sites like Amazon
and eBay and see if they can
get in."
This illegal trade had a huge
fillip last week after it emerged
that the personal details, pass-
words and possibly credit card
details of 77 million users had
been stolen from Sony's Play-
Station Network, the online
game system.
Millions of Sony's PlayStation Network users of games such as Killzone 3 have had their personal details stolen by hackers. Source: The Australian
In Tokyo yesterday, Sony
executives bowed for sever-
al seconds to apologise. It was
their first appearance since the
breach occurred over a week
ago.
The hacking has affected
about 715,000 Australians and
has caught the attention of the
Privacy Commissioner Timo-
thy Pilgrim, who has begun an
investigation.
The theft of the personal
data - one of the biggest in his-
tory - is a public relations disas-
ter for Sony. The company took
48 hours to shut down its net-
work after the attack and four
days to admit that its system
had been breached. It was only
last Tuesday when it revealed
that a vast cache of customer
data had been stolen.
Londoner Elita Ogbab, 21,
a victim of the hackers, says:
"A week last Wednesday I was
playing Zombies and it signed
me out. I thought it was the
internet connection, so I just
left it. I didn't find out until Sat-
urday about the hackers."
Sony, which hires some of
the world's leading computer
experts, had been entrusted
with the information of tens of
millions of consumers but had
let it spill out into the internet.
It had been humiliated by the
data thieves.
Corporations will be taking
note, anxious to avoid a sim-
ilar fiasco. But when we rely
on our emails and passwords
for almost every aspect of our
lives, the episode raises serious
questions. How safe is our per-
sonal information and are we
divulging it too readily?
Two months ago a small
group of hackers were chatting
online about the vulnerabil-
News Feature
ities of the PlayStation Net-
work. The chatter was obscure
but the message was clear. The
network had significant secu-
rity flaws. One the hackers
observed: "You know, watch-
ing this conversation makes
me think about whether it was
a good idea after all to buy a
couple of games from [Play-
Station Network] using a Visa
card."
Whether or not Sony acted
on these warnings, its enemies
in the hacking community were
gathering against it. They were
angered that the company
had taken legal action against
George Hotz, an American
hacker who had breached the
internal security of the PlaySta-
tion3.
A group of hackers known
as "Anonymous" warned Sony
on April 14 to "prepare for the
biggest attack you have wit-
nessed".
Between April 17 and April
19 Sony's systems buckled as
it came under attack. Anony-
mous, though, claims it is inno-
cent. "For once we didn't do it,"
it said on its website.
British victims are under-
standably angry. Another Lon-
doner Antony Bennison, 30,
has been a member of the
Sony PlayStation Network for
two years.
"I'm pretty disappointed in
Sony and it's very unlikely I will
sign up again in the future.
"It just hasn't taken care of
my personal details, so why
should I trust it?" Bennison
asks.
"I use different passwords
for every account I have and I
will recognise email scams try-
ing to get more information
from me. I am most worried
about identity theft, which you
might not find out about until
much later."
Not everyone is as canny as
Bennison. Many consumers
use just one or two passwords
that, once divulged, give access
to multiple accounts. A survey
last year found more than half
of consumers used passwords
that are variations of names
found on their social network-
ing sites.
Peter Warren, co-author of
Cyber Alert and a founder of
the Cyber Security Research
Institute, says "Cyber crime
gangs are changing their tac-
tics. They are no longer aiming
to just steal financial informa-
tion: they are aiming to steal
personal information."
As the internet has flour-
ished, customers have become
willing to provide increasing
amounts of their personal data
to online services. Such infor-
mation is a valuable commodi-
ty to data thieves.
In Russia and eastern
Europe gangs of hackers have
been developing malicious soft-
ware to target computers. Ini-
tially banks were the targets,
along with the financial data
systems. Now it is just as likely
to be online shopping and social
networking sites that are under
attack. Alan Paller, director of
research at the SANS Institute,
a US information security train-
ing centre, says: "The banks
have got much better at pro-
tecting their information. Many
of the social networking sites
don't take security so seriously
and they are a target."
One of the aims of the data
thieves is to build an individual
online identity, harvesting infor-
mation from different sourc-
es. Using that information they
can either access existing servic-
es or fraudulently apply for new
services.
Cifas, a fraud prevention
service that collates data on
financial crime, published a
report last month revealing that
identity theft is the fastest grow-
ing type of fraud in the country.
Out of 217,385 cases report-
ed to the Cifas database, iden-
tity fraud accounted for 47 per
cent.
Cifas spokesman Richard
Hurley says people should be
far more careful about what
they publish online.
"If someone has got your
name, address and date of birth,
they can start to try to imper-
sonate you," he says.
Some people provide so
much information online they
can be tracked. One application,
called Creepy, checks messages
from Twitter and online pictures
to create the history of an indi-
vidual's movements, which can
help to identify their address,
workplace and the hours of the
day they are not at home.
It exploits the fact that
many people who regularly
post pictures online are una-
ware that photographs taken
by a smart phone, such as an
iPhone, can include code con-
taining the GPS co-ordinates
of where the picture was
taken. Two websites, please-
robme.com and icanstalku.
com, also highlight how peo-
ple are revealing their locations
online.
Yiannis Kakavas, a graduate
student at Darmstadt Universi-
ty of Technology in Germany,
wrote the Creepy application to
highlight the amount of infor-
mation posted online.
"It's human nature for peo-
ple to show people what they're
doing and how well they're
doing, but they're not thinking
enough about their privacy,"
Kakavas says.
Even information that indi-
viduals may consider confi-
dential can be harvested by
hackers. It emerged last week
that smartphone users who
transmit confidential informa-
tion in wi-fi hotspots risk their
names, passwords and messag-
es being stolen. Hackers work-
ing in such hotspots can create
bogus wi-fi gateways to which
many phones will automatical-
ly connect. All the information
can then be downloaded to a
laptop. Security experts say sen-
sitive information should never
be transmitted in a public wi-fi
spot.
For Sony the damage is
already done. The company is
hoping to restore its PlaySta-
tion Network this week but
the fallout is likely to last many
months.
It is not yet clear whether the
data on the credit cards were
stolen or whether the financial
data were safely encrypted. The
personal email and gaming his-
tory of the customers will almost
certainly be traded online.
"Just got called by my card
company," one victim of the
hack tweeted on Wednesday.
"Been charged 2 grand for
some PayPal account in China.
Nice one Sony."
There is also a key lesson to
be learned for the many con-
sumers who use just one or two
passwords on the internet.
Duong in Vietnam and oth-
ers like him are waiting to steal
and sell your online identity.
—The Sunday Times
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Sports Feature

Juninho: I’ve made history at two clubs

His intelligence and strong character have made him a leader and captain wherever he
has been, from his early days at Sport Recife in his home state of Pernambuco through
to his current employers: Qatari heavyweights Al Gharrafa. With the possibility of once
again pulling on a Vasco shirt still on the cards, and having stated his ambition to one
day take on an off-the-field role at OL, the 36-year-old’s time at the top of the game is
clearly far from over. A few days after the end of the Qatari league season, the player
capped 52 times by Brazil and who helped A Seleção lift the 2005 edition of the FIFA
Confederations Cup gave a full and frank interview to FIFA.com.
A wand-like right foot, a cool head Messi in the future. I’m not irreplaceable
on his shoulders and an exemplar work and Lyon have already moved on since
ethic are just three of the ingredients my exit. But I did manage to leave my
that made former Brazil international own stamp on the club’s history. Lyon will
Juninho Pernambucano a model profes- always have a place in my heart and my
sional. Lethal from set-pieces and with a head and, inevitably, I’d like to go back
fine eye for a pass, the midfielder made there one day to take up a role with them
an indelible mark at both Rio de Janeiro and use my experience to help the club.
outfit Vasco da Gama, whom he helped to Do you think you may have left the club a year too
their first and so far only Copa Libertado- soon?
res triumph in 1998, and Ligue 1 giants Things have gone so well for me at Al
Lyon, where he was a key figure in all Gharrafa that I’ve got no right to regret
seven of Les Gones’ league title successes. anything. But of course, I left a bit too
FIFA.com: Juninho, it’s two years now since you soon. I could have played on for two
arrived in Qatar. How have you settled in? further seasons at Lyon, but it had a bit
I’ve got a very nice life here. After to do with how things are in France. I
spending eight years in France, I didn’t was a foreign player who’d won a lot,
find it particularly difficult to adapt. It’s and mentally I was quite tired of being
true that there are cultural differences, the target of all the criticism when the
but I went through the same thing when team stopped winning, as well as hear-
I left Brazil for France. I’m the one who’s ing that the team simply revolved around
come here, so it’s down to me to put in me. I would have liked to stay but, more
the effort and adapt as quickly as pos- than anything else, I would have appreci-
sible. And because the standard of liv- ated a bit more support from everybody
ing here in Doha is so good, it makes it involved. I can take criticism but that
easier to fit in. In fact, I’ve experienced was starting to make life uncomfortable
more changes at a professional level. Brazilian midfielder Juninho kicks the ball during the AFC Champions League group A football match against Al-Jazira at the off the pitch. I didn’t have a choice any-
Qatari football has improved a great Al-Gharrafa Stadium in Doha on April 14, 2010. AFP PHOTO/KARIM JAAFAR more so I decided to leave, but I think
deal in terms of quality of play, but in that I could have played on for another
organisational terms there’s a huge dif- two seasons.
ference compared to Europe. Over there, which features the best sides. Every team even now at the age of 36, I’m still get- There’s been a recent wave of Brazilian internation-
right from the start of the champion- wants to be part of a competition like ting offers to play at the highest level! als heading home to play in the domestic league,
ship you know exactly how the season is that. In Brazil, it’s almost more difficult Putting your heart into everything you while you’ve been strongly linked with a return to
going to pan out in detail, whereas here to clinch one of the qualifying places for do, that’s the key. Vasco. Is there any truth to the rumours?
there’s still a lot of delay when it comes the Libertadores than it is to actually play What was your view on the decision to award Qatar The truth is that the day I left I prom-
to organising the working week or away in it. The European Champions League the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup™? ised that one day I’d come back and play
trips. That’s the biggest change. But, is by far the best club competition in the I wasn’t surprised by the decision, for Vasco again. And that’s why their
everything’s going very well so far. It’s a world, all it’s missing are Brazilian teams! because Qatar put in a lot of effort and supporters are always asking me when
lovely adventure. And in Asia, I’ve discovered a tournament presented a very nice project. It’s the first I’m coming back. I know that the doors
In your first season you won the league title, the that’s treated with the same level of pas- Gulf nation chosen by FIFA to host the are open to me over there. My contract’s
Qatar Crown Prince Cup and the Qatari Stars Cup. sion and which is of a very high standard. World Cup, which will open doors for all coming to an end with Al Gharrafa and
Did you expect such a successful start? Unfortunately I wasn’t able to win the the others. Every country in the world I’ve received an offer from Vasco. We’re
I love competing and I love winning! European title with Lyon, and I was also has the right to bid to welcome a World having discussions and there’s a chance
I’ve been like that since I was very small. knocked out of last year’s Asian competi- Cup. It’ll be a very good competition, that I’ll sign for them. Unfortunately,
I didn’t sign for Al Gharrafa so I could tion with Al Gharrafa. But I was fortunate which will give supporters the chance even if I were to sign now I wouldn’t
gently wind down my career or to treat enough to lift the Libertadores with Vasco to see several games because everything be registered in time for the start of the
it like a holiday. I wanted to keep play- da Gama. It was magnificent. These are will be quite close together. Of course, [Brasileirao] season. That’d mean that
ing well, while I knew there’d be fewer the kind of great competitions which the heat will be a very important factor, I wouldn’t be able to play until August,
matches over the course of the season every player dreams about. but Qatar has all the ingredients for put- and then there’d only be four months
and so it would be easier to handle. Of You were voted the league’s best player last sea- ting on one of the best World Cups of all left. But I’ll make a decision over the next
course I didn’t expect so much success so son, but no description of your style of play would be time. few weeks.
quickly, but I knew that I was joining a complete without mention of your set-piece ability. Lyon have not won Ligue 1 since you left, so what do Do you ever regret the fact your international
good team who’d won the previous two Is that something you continue to work on, even at you think they need to get back on the trophy trail? career wasn’t as glory-laden as your time at club
league titles. We won a treble last term, the age of 36? Would you agree that they are yet to find someone level?
and we also reached the quarter-finals of Perhaps it’s a gift. It’s true I’ve got the to adequately fill the gap you left both on and off To be honest, I’ve got no right to wish
the Asian Champions League. It was the ability to strike a ball well, but more the pitch? for anything in my career to have gone
best season in the club’s history. It means than anything it’s something I’ve really There’ll never be just one team that differently. I’ve had a wonderful career
just as much to me as everything I won worked on. It’s only through repetition always wins everything. We pulled off an thus far, I’ve never had any injury prob-
with Lyon and in Brazil. Unfortunately that we improve. My success is down to exceptional run by winning seven league lems, I’ve played over 700 games and
this season we weren’t able to defend a mixture of hard work, determination titles in a row. Winning is hard, and it’s won more than 20 trophies. It’s true I’ve
our title and we had to settle for second and the pleasure I get from training. even harder to keep winning. But Lyon not tasted the same level of success with
place. But there are still the two cups left Over the course of my entire career, I’ve have kept a competitive side together, the national team, but even so I’ve played
and we’ll try to win at least one of them. always put a lot of emphasis on doing one which reached the semi-finals of at a World Cup and won a Confedera-
You’ve played in the Copa Libertadores, the UEFA dead-ball work in training. It’s become the Champions League (in 2009/10) - tions Cup. But you can’t win everything
Champions League and its AFC equivalent. Do these the strongest part of my game. I still get something that I was never able to do. In in life. I prefer to look towards the future,
three competitions stir the same level of passion the same enjoyment from working hard terms of me leaving the club, I genuinely I only look to the past to try and learn
among players and supporters? as I always did, and that’s something I think that nobody is irreplaceable, except from it. The way I see it, I’ve made his-
Every team wherever you go has the try to pass on to my younger team-mates. perhaps the likes of Pele and Ronaldo tory at one club in Brazil and another in
same goal: taking part in the competition The best example I can give them is that, when they hung up their boots, or Lionel France, which gives me real pleasure

United set for top dog scrap
Wairarapa United might
be at the top of the Central
League points table but they
are not resting on their lau-
rels.
This week they confirmed
the signing of talented Japa-
nese midfielder Nobuyoshi
Ishi, 22, an impressive per-
former for YoungHeart Mana-
watu in the National League,
and he might even start in
the all-important fixture with
Western Suburbs at the lat-
ter’s Endeavour Park head-
quarters tomorrow.
Wests have the same num-
ber of points as Wairarapa
United as both have won four
of their five matches but Wai-
Arsenal stunt Manchester United’s title aspirations
Manchester United FC will
host second-placed Chelsea
FC with a three-point advan-
tage next Sunday after Aaron
Ramsey's goal downed Sir
Alex Ferguson's side at Arse-
nal FC.
Manchester United FC's
hopes of winning the Premier
League title suffered a set-
back as they lost 1-0 at Arse-
nal FC, Sir Alex Ferguson's
Top-ranked Lee Westwood wins Ballentine’s
Top-ranked Lee Westwood
rallied to win the Ballantine’s
Championship for his sec-
ond straight victory, shoot-
ing a 5-under 67 on Sunday
for a one-stroke victory over
Miguel Angel Jimenez.
Westwood, the English star
who won the Asian Tour’s
Indonesian Masters last week
to regain the No. 1 spot in the
world, finished at 12-under
276 at Blackstone Resort in
the event sanctioned by the
European and Asian tour and
Korea PGA.
“It’s always nice when
you’re world No. 1 to show
everybody why you’re in that
Football
rarapa United lead because
they have a better goal dif-
ferential.
Confidence that Ishi would
be a valuable member of Wai-
rarapa United was expressed
yesterday by their player-
coach Adam Cowan who
has played alongside him for
YoungHeart Manawatu.
“He was probably the best
midfielder we had, he’s got
all the skills and works hard.”
If Ishi does start tomor-
row he will probably replace
Scott Robson in midfield with
Robson, a star performer this
season, moving to fullback.
Cowan sees Wests, who also
have a number of YoungHeart
Football
Aaron Ramsey rejoices after firing Arsenal's winner
men remaining three points
clear at the top after Aaron
Ramsey’s winner.
United had seen second-
placed Chelsea FC close the
gap with a 2-1 victory against
Tottenham Hotspur FC on
Saturday, and this defeat
means Carlo Ancelotti's side
could overhaul them on goal
difference if they win at Old
Trafford next Sunday. Ram-
Golf
position,” Westwood said.
“I’m delighted with the way
I played this week.”
The 47-year-old Jimenez,
Westwood’s European Ryder
Cup teammate and dining
companion Saturday night,
parred the final nine holes
for a 71.
“I was just happy he didn’t
make a birdie and make it
difficult for me,” said West-
wood, who finished about
an hour before Jimenez. “It’s
very nerve-racking when you
have to sit there and some-
body’s got some holes to
play.”
Westwood shot a 69 in
Sports News
Manawatu squad members in
their side, playing an attack-
ing style of football aimed at
breaking down the Wairarapa
United defence.
He is confident that
challenge can be met, not
through using long “kick
and hope” balls but by being
patient and structured in
their approach.
“The important thing is
to retain possession and not
give them anything loose to
capitalise on, we have to do
the hard yards both on and
off the ball”, he said.
“Giving the ball carrier
plenty of options is vital, the
support play has to be spot
sey, making only his fourth
league appearance of the
campaign following a long-
term injury, moved third-
placed Arsenal within six
points of the summit when
he swept in Robin van Persie's
pass after 56 minutes.
Liverpool FC rose above
Tottenham into fifth on goal
difference thanks to a 3-0
success against Newcastle
the completion of the rain-
delayed third round to begin
the finale three strokes
behind Jimenez, Alexan-
der Noren and Rhys Davies.
Westwood birdied Nos. 14
and 15 to tie Jimenez, then
pulled ahead with a birdie on
the par-5 18th.
“It was an old man’s per-
formance, really,” West-
wood said. “I hung around
all week, then today when I
needed to do anything I just
gauged my way through the
field and, obviously, got my
head in front on the line.”
Westwood won for the first
time on the European Tour
SPORTS INBRIEF
on.”
Cowan believes too that
keeping things simple will be
Wairarapa United’s best ally
from an attacking viewpoint.
He says a team of Wests’
calibre are sure to be well
aware of the threat posed
them by the likes of Seule
Soromon and Dale Higham
if they are allowed to utilise
their speed and flair and ,
consequently, greater profit
could come from teamwork
rather than individualism.
“Again it’s a matter of get-
ting numbers around the ball,
that’s the key to the whole
game”.
Wairarapa Times Age
United FC, before fourth-
placed Manchester City FC
restored their seven-point
buffer to the Anfield club by
overcoming West Ham United
FC 2-1. Wolverhampton Wan-
derers FC are one point from
safety following a 1-1 draw at
ten-man Birmingham City FC
in Sunday's other match.
UEFA
since the 2009 Dubai World
Championship and matched
Sam Torrance for ninth place
on the tour’s victory list with
21. The 38-year-old West-
wood has 35 worldwide vic-
tories.
South Korea’s Park Sang-
hyun eagled the final hole
for a 69 to finish third at
10 under. American Dus-
tin Johnson was fourth at 9
under after a 69.
Noren had a 74 to tie for
fifth at 8 under, while Davies
shot a 77 to drop into a tie
for 13th at 5 under.
AAP
VANUATU DAILY POST | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 [ 15 ]
TENNIS
Djokovic wins Serbia Open title
Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-2
on Sunday to win the Serbia Open for his fifth title and
27th straight victory this season. The Australian Open
champion was not always at his best in a match often
played in rain and had six double faults. “You people make
it worth it to come back to this city and play and hope
for the victories,’’ said Djokovic, who led Serbia’s Davis
Cup team to its first title last year. Lopez failed to take
advantage of seven break points during the match. He
had the first two early in the first set at 2-2, sending the
ball into the net then allowing Djokovic to win the game
with an ace and a deep forehand into the corner. Lopez
had another chance to break in the first set at 4-4 before
Djokovic comfortably won the tiebreaker. “I had a dream
last night that I will be a hero and the first to beat him this
year, but I realized it was very hard,’’ Lopez said. At 1-1 in
the second set, Djokovic fell face down after chasing a
forehand by Lopez but was not hurt. Lopez had a chance
to break at 3-2 in the second but sent the ball into the net.
AP
FOOTBALL
Auxerre stalemate keeps Marseille
second
Olympique de Marseille spurned the chance to return to
the top of the standings in France after being held to a
1-1 draw at home against AJ Auxerre. Victory would have
sent Didier Deschamps’ men a point clear of LOSC Lille
Métropole with five matches remaining, and they seemed
set for the summit when Mathieu Valbuena turned in a
deflected André Ayew cross 11 minutes after the interval.
OM had their opponents on the back foot for almost the
entire encounter, yet they were pegged back with 13
minutes remaining as Jung Jo-Gook found the net after
coming off the bench. Third-placed Olympique Lyonnais
experienced disappointment too as they succumbed 2-0
at Toulouse FC, the visitors ending with nine players after
Aly Cissokho’s late dismissal compounded the loss of
Michel Bastos on 64 minutes. Lyon lie seven points shy
of Lille, and are holding off fourth-placed Paris Saint-
Germain FC courtesy of goal difference alone.
UEFA
FOOTBALL
Totti moves past Baggio with 206 Serie
A goals
Roma captain Francesco Totti moved past Roberto
Baggio into fifth place on Serie A’s all-time scoring list
with his 205th and 206th goals Sunday. Totti tied Baggio
with a precise free kick around a wall in the 30th minute
of Roma’s match at Bari, leveling the game at 1-1, then
added a penalty in the 57th to equalize again at 2-2 and
move past Baggio. They were the 13th and 14th goals
this season for the 34-year-old Totti. Totti nearly had a
hit trick when Roma was awarded another penalty, but
his spot kick hit the post. Still, Roma went on to win 3-2
when Aleandro Rosi scored five minutes into added time.
Silvio Piola, who won the World Cup with Italy in 1938,
tops the all-time list with 274 goals, followed by Gunnar
Nordahl (225), Giuseppe Meazza (216), Jose Altafini
(216), Totti and Baggio (205). At the final whistle, Totti
put on a T-shirt that read “The King of Rome is not dead.’’
AAP
BOXING
Haye says ticketing issue will not stop
Klitschko fight
David Haye’s world heavyweight title fight with Wladimir
Klitschko will go ahead despite a row over tickets. The
unification bout between Britain’s WBA holder Haye and
Ukraine’s IBF and WBO champion Klitschko is scheduled
to take place in Hamburg on 2 July. The dispute is over
ticket allocations and German fans getting first choice.
“The fight is on but the Klitschko brothers are giving me a
headache over the tickets for my travelling fans,” Haye told
the Sunday Mirror. “I have given in to every single demand
that they have made and they keep moving the goalposts.”
“I’m not going to roll over and let them get their way with
the tickets - I want a fair allocation and at good prices. My
fans have been loyal and I don’t want a ­single one to be
disappointed this time.”
BBC

Kaltak i winim Golden
Boot long U20 tunamen
Ricky Binihi i ripot
Vanuatu hem I bin karem
frut blong hem we I planem
long Teouma Academy 2 yia
I pas taem U20 tim blong
Vanuatu hem i winim Bronze
Medal long OFC U20 World
Cup Kwalifaeing Tunamen
long New Zealand.
Long 2 yia I pas Vanuatu
Futbol Fedaresen hem I
tingting blong setemap wan
Futbol Academy or skul blong
tijim ol pikinini I ple fut-
bol mo VFF I go olbaot long
aelan blong rikrutum ol piki-
nini boe I kam ple stap long
Academy.
Taem ia tu Nasonal Lik
blong Vanuatu, Port Vila
Futbol Asosiesen hem I
luk save wanem we VFF I
wantem setemap wetem ol
yangfala ia blong Vanuatu
mekem se hem I agri blong
ol yangfala blong Academy
Ovins Rugby club (blak mo waet) oli stap testem Niu Caledonia Pasifk Gems skwad yestede
oli gat wan tim tu blong ple
insaed long Premia Divisen.
Pat blong ol had wok ia nao
we I luk tu ol papa mo mama
blong ol pikinini ia oli sapo-
tem tingting ia mekem se tim
blong Vanuatu afta plante yia
hem I jes ko bak blong karem
Bronze medal long U20 OFC
Wol Kap Kwalifaeing raon.
Be bigafla nius nao hem I
no Bronze Medal we Vanuatu
I karem be Golden Boot we
wan pikinini blong Academy
ia I go karem long New
Zealand.
Pikinini ia nem blong
hem Jean Kaltak mo hem
flatem gud ol straeka blong
New Zealand we oli bin stap
long ol nara Academy long
Europe mo long USA taem
okanaesing komiti I talem se
bae straeka blong U20 blong
Vanuatu nao, Kaltak bae hem
I karem Golden Boot.
Darren Wilfred blong Bulldogs
Futbol
Kaltak, boe blong Ivoki
Kaltak blong Erakor we I bin
go ple long Tahiti long klab
blong ankel blong hem let
Britten Waote, hem I makem
6 poen long tunamen ia mo I
nomo gat wan straeka blong
NZ, Solomon Island mo New
Caledonia oli putum semak
namba blong poen long tuna-
men ia olsem pikinini blong
Vanuatu ia.
Ol yangfala blong Vanuatu
ia oli kam bak long Vanuatu
wetem Fair Play award tu.
I tru tim blong Vanuatu
hem I kam namba tri be wan
samting U20 I bin mekem
long NZ we neva wan nason-
al tim bifo hem I bin mekem
semak blong long long taem
hem I blong lus gogo kam kit-
kit 3-3 long ekstra-taem.
Long semi-faenal agensem
Solomon, Vanuatu i bin kit-
kit 2-2 wetem Solomon long
Labour Sevens
ful 90 minit afta oli go long
ekstra mo taem ia Solomon
I makem 3-2 be Vanuatu I
faet had gogo kasem taem
Vanuatu I kitkit 3-3.
I tru Vanuatu I bin lus long
penalty-sut-aot be blong kam
biaen mo kitkit long ekstra
taem hem I positif saen se
bae Vanuatu Futbol I save
jenis. From bifo I kam yumi
jampion blong putum poen
fastaem be taem nara tim
putum poen yumi stat slak
nao mo taem oli stat blong
winim yumi, yumi jes slak
olgeta.
Be U20 blong Moise Poida
I soem long Vanuatu long
New Zealand se oli save ple
ful 100 % kasem taem las
wisel I blu long ekstra taem.
Hemia hem I wan positif jenis
blong mentality mo hem i
gud blong Vanuatu Futbol.
Ifira 2 (long yelo mo grin) i stap plei Tatoko 2
Ovins i putum wan try agensem Ifira