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From the UN Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption (UN-PRAC) Project, a joint four-year initiative of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, with support from the Australian Government. Updates shared by Annika Wythes, Luisa Senibulu, Samita Singh, and Mihaela Stojkoska.

Vanuatu:

MPs' Pardon Hopes Rest With Parliamentary Committee. The Vanuatu government says any consideration of pardons for jailed former MPs would have to be made by a parliamentary committee.

More in Pacific Islands Report: http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2016/March/03-03-20.htm

PNG:

Tougher laws to erase money laundering. Papua New Guinea has moved to eradicate domestic and external money laundering and terrorist financing under new harsher laws and tougher penalties.

More in Pacific Islands News Association (PINA): http://www.pina.com.fj/?p=pacnews&m=read&o=58005643856d8b85b15e685e7251d1

PM shrugs off outstanding warrant. Prime Minister Peter O'Neil has declared he will resign immediately as Papua New Guinea's prime minister if evidence shows he has corruptly pocketed just one Kina.

More in Special Broadcasting Service (SBS): http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/03/03/png-pm-shrugs-outstanding-warrant

Solomon Islands:

Prosecution on conspire case. Prosecution will be sorting out the charges against the two men accused of conspiring to breach a court order at a logging camp in East Areare, Malaita last year.

More from Assumpta Buchanan, in Solomon Star: http://www.solomonstarnews.com/news/national/9772-prosecution-on-conspire-case


For more information on the UN-PRAC Project, you may get in touch with:

Annika Wythes, Anti-Corruption Adviser - Pacific, UNODC, annika.wythes@unodc.org

Luisa Senibulu, Governance Programme Associate, UNDP/UNODC, luisa.senibulu@undp.org

Samita Singh, Programme Assistant - Anti-Corruption, UNDP/UNODC, samita.singh@undp.org

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