By Laisa Taga, Editor-In-Chief Islands Business Magazine
SUVA, Fiji (Nov. 6, 2002 - Islands Business/PINA Nius Online)---Have you ever wondered how, when the Pacific Islands and European Union recently signed a regional agreement in Suva, photos of this appeared in newspapers around the region?
Or why, when there are deaths in the violence on the Weathercoast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, it is soon on the news on your local radio station?
The answer, column readers, is the growth of regional news services. These have brought a big change to the way you get your daily news, and how quickly people within this region know what is happening in other parts of their region.
Once, if something happened in the Pacific Islands, it would first reach other Pacific Islands via radio stations or news agencies in Australia, New Zealand or France.
It would be edited and angled through the eyes of Australian, French or New Zealand editors. These far...