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Before we step into 2017 lets take a look back at the people and moments that have made us 'Proud Nesians' in 2016

In no particular order:

Pita Taufatofua - Tongan Flag Bearer at the Rio Olympics 

Um Yeeeeeees Pleeeeeease Pita! 

Kings single 'Don't Worry Bout It' beats Lordes 'Royals' record for longest number of consecutive weeks at Number 1!

We caught up with Kingdon Chaplle-Wilson earlier in the year here 

Steven Adams signs $140 million contract extension with the OKC Thunder 

This makes him the highest paid NZ athlete 

MOANA 

So much love for Moana this week in particular as it opened to the public in New Zealand and Australia.  I don't know anyone who has seen it who hasn't felt emotional or proud at the way we've been portrayed as Polynesians.…more

As the end of 2016 draws near we take a moment to reflect on some of the things that made us shake our head & say 'Kalofae' or write them off as a big fat FAIL!

In no particular order:

Koi Boyz being mistaken for Sole Mio at the Vodafone NZ Music Awards by the Vodafone NZ Music Awards Social Media person .... because all brown boys look the same??!

Womans Day making up a story about Maria Tutaia & Israel Folau's engagement #GutterJournalism - gotta love Maria calling them out on it tho! 

'The Whitest story ever told' - Jennifer Lawrence thinking it's hilarious to scratch her as$ on sacred rocks in Hawai'i   White privilege much! 

Jarryd Hayne missed out on the Fiji Sevens team (kalofae) and while they were winning Gold in Rio he was making headlines for another reason.  We think showing porn to a High School while presenting an online safety talk is the winner.  Are you orrrrrite Jarryd? 

In another case of 'All Brown Guys look the Same' - Adidas mixed up Julian Savea and Malakai Fekitoa.…more

For many of the Micronesian islands in the North Pacific, Santa Claus doesn't come down a chimney - he sends down a parachute.

The U.S., Japan, and Australian airforces have come together to spread holiday cheer during Operation Christmas Drop. In this video Tech. Sgt. Bryan Magee takes us to Andersen Air Force Base, and shows us how they made the operation happen. 

This holiday mission started in 1952 when a US aircrew noticed a group of people on the island of Kapingamarangi waving at them. In response, the aircrew dropped a box of supplies attached to a parachute, and they carried on the tradition from that point forward.

This decades-old Christmas tradition inspired the 2020 netflix movie "Operation Christmas Drop". In the movie Congressional aide Erica Miller (Kat Graham) lands at a US Air Force base in Micronesia, where she clashes with Capt.…more

Kia Orana, my name is Melarnie Manuel.  My friends and family call me Lani.

I am of Cook Island descent.  My mother was born in Tukao, Manihiki and my father was born in London, England.  Since I was a young child, I've had more hair styles than the years I have lived.

I'm 24 years old and I'd like to consider I have had my fair share of horrible cuts and wonderful up dos.  When I was little, the luxury of growing my hair out was not in my Mums opinion, something to up keep.  We (and when I say we, I mean me and my hair) had our days of the ugly home job fringe, the saga of me cutting my own hair and the cheap trim.  There has not been a significant time in my childhood where at any time, my hair was any longer than the below.

As a Cook Islander, I've had the wonderful privilege of knowing and having women and girls around me with long, thick hair.…more

One year after the launch of the Pia Uru, the Tahiti Brasserie decided to honor another fenua vegetable : TARO!  

This new edition, limited to 108 000 cans, began being sold on Monday.

After the Pia Uru, the beer made with breadfruit, the Tahiti Brasserie is doing it again with the crazy Pia Taro!

The 11th beer made by the Brasserie uses a typical clavus : taro root.   The beer has been developed for 6 months in the micro-brasserie of Punary with the creation of a new transformation technique of the fruit which makes it easier than the technique used with breadfruit.

2,530kg of taro root which came from Rimatara and Taravao were reduced in powder and then transformed into gelatin.  This taro root gelatin replaces 50% of the malt usually used in the beer recipe (hop, water and malt).  When it comes out, Pia Taro is an opaque beer as it is non filtered, with a caramal and butter taste.

Pia Taro is a limited edition beer with only 360 hectoliters made or 108,000 cans.…more

HONOLULU Fashion Week presented by Hawaiian Airlines was on last week.

Watch the recap video from last Fridays show featuring Local Luxe, Live Aloha, Reyn Spooner and Hawaiian Airlines presents 'Runway to Runway' runway shows.

Visit www.honolulumagazine.com for details.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a US $3.7 billion project that will cross 4 States, run through Sioux sacred burial sites and change the landscape of the US Crude Oil Supply. 

Basically, if the pipeline is built it will carry at least 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota down to a terminal in Illinois, where it will be shipped to refineries and turned into usable fuel.

For most of this year, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota have been waging a battle against the proposed oil pipeline that would run near their reservation.  Media attention has slowly built around the protests with celebrities like Jason Momoa and Leonardo DiCaprio using their platform to show their support.

The Great Sioux Nation are protesting the proposed pipelines for 2 main reasons that affect them directly:

* The pipeline would cross right under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, the reservation’s main source of drinking water.…more

From Kingsland the old stomping grounds of many Niueans in Auckland ...

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