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Rising netball stars push for Silver Ferns selection after strong season - LockerRoom
The New Zealand Herald
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July 22, 2025
LockerRoom takes a look at four players pushing for their first Ferns test cap, and two premiership rookie standouts to look out for in the future. Filda Vui Filda Vui is by no means a new face in the ANZ Premiership, making her first appearance...
Payment Automation Hacks: Best Practices to Streamline & Scale Your AP Processes
CFO Dive
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Coach under review
The Fiji Times
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July 22, 2025
The Fiji Football Association (Fiji FA) has indicated its plans to replace the Fiji senior women’s football team, the Fiji Kulas head coach Angeline Chua prior to the start of the OFC Women’s World Cup qualifiers in November. This follows Fiji’s...
Rugby league: Siosiua Taukeiaho puts hand up for Tonga
RNZ
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July 21, 2025
Taukeiaho told NRL.com that he will be ready to join Tonga for the upcoming Pacific Championships against Samoa and New Zealand if needed. Photo: PHOTOSPORT Former Mate Ma'a Tonga player Siosiua Taukeiaho has revealed he wants to have another shot...
Fiji FA Considers Kula’s Coach Replacement
Fiji Sun
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July 21, 2025
The Kulas finished fourth; they lost to Samoa, 2-0, in the third place play-off at the HFC Bank Stadium last Saturday. Samoa’s Oteta Kitiona (5) leads the attack against Fiji’s Ema Mereia (18) during their 3rd and 4th place playoff at the HFC Bank...
Research sheds light on how New Zealand's uber rich achieve offshore secrecy
interest.co.nz
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New Zealand’s uber rich appear more secretive than those in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and Russia, according to new research, which suggests they’re more likely to use blacklisted offshore financial centres and conceal...
40 years over the Rainbow
Islands Business
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July 18, 2025
SOLOMON Islands will take on PNG in the final of the OFC Women’s Nations Cup in Suva. Papua New Guinea was clinical in its victory over the host nation, win over Fiji in the semifinal with captain Ramona Padio dictating the game from the start....
“I despair” – New Wales boss called ‘shocking choice’ as fans rage online
Ruck
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July 21, 2025
The WRU have confirmed former Scotland assistant Steve Tandy as the new Wales men’s head coach – and the backlash online has been immediate and brutal. Tandy, 45, will leave his post as Scotland’s defence coach and officially take the reins on 1...
Updated 2027 Rugby World Cup Draw: England to Face Tournament Debutants
Ruck
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July 21, 2025
In a historic shift for the global game, Rugby World Cup 2027 in Australia will feature 24 teams, a bold move by World Rugby aimed at making the sport more inclusive, competitive, and truly global. This expansion, backed by sweeping reforms in the...
Handing Townsend a new deal would be a risky move
The Times
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So here we are again, trying to make sense of yet another middle of the road campaign from Scotland; attempting to establish whether this side really are still moving forward. With as many as ten front-liners unavailable due to a combination of...
Inside the search for Wales' new coach as four-hour final interview left WRU blown away
Wales Online
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July 21, 2025
On Monday, roughly 10,000 miles separated Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Abi Tierney and director of rugby and elite performance Dave Reddin. Two points of a triangle - one in the southern part of Brisbane's CBD, the other in Cardiff's...
Realize Future-Ready Record-to-Report Processes with BlackLine
CFO Dive
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Historic Lighthouses Series Launches with Humboldt Harbor Beacon
Redheaded Blackbelt - California
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July 21, 2025
This video is part of Historic Lighthouses, a five-part series by Humboldt Axe spotlighting the iconic coastal beacons that once guided mariners along the North Coast. The series explores the history and remnants of each lighthouse, preserving...
‘Unite’, or we lose drug fight
The Fiji Times
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July 16, 2025
Pacific Island Countries don’t stand a chance against the drug crisis, at least not alone. Head of the Pacific Programme at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Virginia Comolli warned that fragmented efforts are...
“I am still in the race,” says Vaimauga 4 female candidate
Talamua
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July 21, 2025
By Lagi Keresoma/ Apia, Samoa – 21 July 2025: The only female candidate running against four male candidates for the Vaimauga 4 seat, Tonu’u Fuamoli Amituana’i Misi has rubbished rumours that she had pulled out of the race. The rumours are alleged...
Australia star considering allegiance switch in fresh Ashes blow for Kangaroos
Love Rugby League
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July 21, 2025
Australia could be about to lose another man for this year’s Ashes series: with Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow considering switching his international allegiance again. Tabuai-Fidow would be a clear starter for the Kangaroos this year given his form at both...
Statement: Wales have finally confirmed Warren Gatland replacement
Ruck
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July 21, 2025
Steve Tandy will lead Wales into the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia and begins his tenure as his country’s new senior men’s Head Coach on the 1st September. Steve is a former British & Irish Lions coach (2021) and was Ospreys head coach for a...
Letters to the Editor | July 21, 2025
The Fiji Times
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July 21, 2025
Binnu Singh delivers big! What a fight, as Sigatoka’s Prince Junior Binnu Singh took Australian-based Chinese boxer Runqi Zhou to the wire, eventually losing out on points! Boxing fans enjoyed the main bout to the fullest. The best part was that...
Rankings: This is when Springboks could lose top spot
The South African
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July 21, 2025
The Springboks have been comfortably ensconced at the top of the world rugby rankings since mid November, remaining at No 1 even in a period of inactivity during the Six Nations earlier this year when northern hemisphere rivals like Ireland and...
How China’s growing cyber-hacking capabilities have raised alarm around the world
The Straits Times
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July 19, 2025
BEIJING - In October 2024, the US authorities said that a China-linked cyber group called Salt Typhoon was targeting critical American infrastructure, including major telecommunications operators. The aim was to obtain private communications of...