Topix: Latest and Most Recent News from Oceania [March ‘11 Diet]

Topix · Mar 14, 2011, 08:05 PM

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has lifted a tsunami warning for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, where no damage has been reported from the earthquake-spawned waves.

Source: Guam, Marinas lifts tsunami warning

Topix · Mar 15, 2011, 04:05 AM

Comedian and late night host Jimmy Kimmel is apparently vacationing in the South Pacific, as he is live-tweeting about the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the effects of which are far-reaching. Kimmel tweets: Suddenly, relaxing on an island in the South Pacific isn't so relaxing anymore.

Source: Jimmy Kimmel tweeting from French Polynesia: 'We are evacuating the island'

Topix · Mar 15, 2011, 08:05 AM

Friday, 11 March 2011, 11:15pm Source: TV3 3 News spoke to Aucklander Vanessa Leaver, a speech therapist living in Japan.

Source: Aucklander riding Japan subway as quake hit

Topix · Mar 15, 2011, 04:05 PM

REUTERS The devastation caused by the earthquake-generated tsunami is seen on the south coast of Western Samoa in this aerial handout photograph obtained October 1, 2009.

Source: China removes tsunami alert, offers help for quake-hit Japan

Topix · Mar 15, 2011, 08:05 PM

A STOURBRIDGE woman living in Vanuatu in the South Pacific has told the News she is bracing herself for the impact of tsunami waves sparked after a massive earthquake struck the coast of Japan.

Source: Stourbridge woman in Vanuatu braces herself for tsunami

Topix · Mar 16, 2011, 12:05 AM

"The riot shields have been dusted off." ABOUT 70 asylum seekers are refusing to return to the Christmas Island detention centre after a mass breakout.

Source: Christmas Island detainees on the loose

Topix · Mar 16, 2011, 04:05 AM

A man looks over tsunami-drifted debris and mud filling rice paddies this morning in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

Source: Most Kiwis in northeast Japan accounted for - MFAT

Topix · Mar 16, 2011, 08:05 AM

It's daylight-savings time -- time to spring the clock forward by 60 minutes, officially at 2 a.m. local time Sunday.

Source: Don't forget adjustment for daylight-savings time

Topix · Mar 16, 2011, 12:05 PM

About half of registered Australians in Japan are safe and authorities are working to contact the rest, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Source: 1271 Aussies safe

Topix · Mar 16, 2011, 04:05 PM

Sunday, 13 March 2011, 4:30pm Source: TV3 Wellington afilled the Basina today in an effort to raise funds for Christchurchas earthquake recovery.

Source: VIDEO: $3000 in one over to quake fund, Fill the Basin 2011