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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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NZ MPs have a go at Vagahau Niue 

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The mature coconuts are collected regularly for their milk.  You can usually crack open a coconut for lunch and in the older, mature coconuts you'll sometimes find a soft, spongey type formation on the inside of the coconut.  

This happens when the coconut is ready to shoot some leaves out and is an edible, soft predecessor.  This part is actually the Coconut Cotyledon which is sometimes called the 'Coconut Embryo' or 'Coconut Apple' and is suspended in germination and is generally eaten raw.

Samoans call this part of the Coconut O'o, Tongans, Tahitians and Cook Islanders call it 'Uto, Niueans name for it is Niu Tupu, the Fijians call it Vara and Hawaiians refer to it as iho or lolo!

We all know that Coconut water and meat are very nutritious so don't underestimate this one!  

Here are the Top 10 Health benefits of the Coconut Embryo:

1.  Supports immune system health: it is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-parasite.
2.  Provides a natural source of quick energy and enhances physical and athletic performance.
3.…more

Tim Noyce picked up the hobby of fire dancing while living in Samoa in 2012 and this year he returned to Samoa and competed for the first time at the 15th Annual Siva Afi Competition in Apia.

Check out Polynesian Entertainers Ltd

Book Tim's Fire Dance crew-TahiMana for your function

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How to Fire Dance (Ailao Afi)

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