Drug traffickers targeting Pacific waterways: Oceania Customs

Pacific nations must urgently strengthen maritime enforcement as criminal networks deliberately exploit geographic vulnerabilities, generating unprecedented trafficking drugs across the region. The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) says detection rates …

TAG Video Systems Partners with Gencom Technology to Deliver Broadcast Monitoring Solutions in Oceania

TAG Video Systems has announced that it is working with Gencom Technology, a provider of media technology solutions across New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, to provide monitoring solutions and technologies in the Oceania. region. The two …

Airport staff, freight workers being recruited by drug cartels – Oceania Customs Organisation

The Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) state recent drug operations show that criminal drug trafficking has grown much larger and more organised in the Pacific. The OCO adds there have been discoveries of new concealment methods showing drugs hidden inside …

Zoe Hobbs sets new Oceania 100m record with 10.94 seconds at Ostrava Golden Spike

Zoe Hobbs breaks Oceania 100m record at World Athletics Tour event Zoe Hobbs set a new Oceania 100m record with a time of 10.94 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic. The performance improves upon her previous regional record of 10 …

Zoe Hobbs sets new Oceania record at latest meet

Sprinter Zoe Hobbs (Ngāruahine) has just run a new Oceania record of 10.94 seconds in the 100m race at the Ostrava Golden Spike event in the Czech Republic. The previous record of 10.96 seconds was also set by Hobbs. “I know is that it was a really good …

Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Trophy Dates Confirmed

A revised four weekend calendar begins at Hampton Downs. Photo: Bruce Jenkins The new look format – with the championship’s regular 15 races being run over four weekends instead of five – was signed off by the FIA’s World Council of Motorsport recently. …

Tradelanes: Oceania – limited choice for exporters as demand grows

Sprinter Zoe Hobbs breaks New Zealand and Oceania record

Zoe Hobbs Photo: PHOTOSPORT New Zealand sprinter Zoe Hobbs has set a new Oceania record in the 100m at the latest World Athletics Continental Tour event in the Czech Republic. The 27-year-old beat her own previous Oceania and New Zealand records by …

Zoe Hobbs breaks New Zealand and Oceania record once again, goes sub 11 seconds

This performance is made all the more impactful for the light trailing wind (+0.6 m/s) and the performance being run at sea-level. In other events, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis won the pole vault, as 17-year-old Australian Gout Gout improved his 200 …

Team Am Samoa settles in Palau, some still on their way

Part of the American Samoa team to the Pacific Mini Games in Palau will miss the opening ceremony for the games Sunday, (Saturday in American Samoa) because they missed their connecting fight in Honolulu. The softball and volleyball teams were on the …