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Air Pacific Opens New Tabua Club Lounge at Nadi International Airport

3:39 PM

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 22, 2012 - Fiji’s national carrier Air Pacific has officially opened its new Tabua Club Lounge at its home base at Nadi International Airport, the country’s international gateway. Conveniently sited on the ground floor of the Departure Hall of the airport, the Tabua Club Lounge is located to the left of Air Pacific’s premium business lounge. It is for the exclusive use of the airline’s Tabua Club members and those customers wishing to pay to use lounge services in Nadi before their international flights.

The new 75-seater lounge offers customers an affordable and relaxing way to unwind and refresh before their flight. It provides a quiet, inviting environment which will be especially attractive to those flying during busier departure times at Nadi. Our guests can enjoy a delicious selection of hot and cold savoury bites prepared by some of the best local culinary hotspots, and beverages which include a great selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. With shower facilities and high-speed internet access, the Tabua Club Lounge is our Fijian Oasis, catering to the discerning traveller who enjoys the little extras.

Air Pacific’s privileged Tabua Club members will have complementary access to the Lounge when travelling on the day on an Air Pacific ticket. Other guests wishing to use lounge services can do so at F$75 per day, available for purchase at check-in counters or at the Lounge reception.

The new Tabua Club Lounge is a demonstration of Air Pacific’s continued commitment towards enhancing the Fiji travel experiences of its guests. It complements the existing premium Business Class Lounge, which is now dedicated exclusively to our Business Class customers.

Note:

Tabua Club offers members Priority Reservations, Business Class Check-in, Business Class Upgrades, Excess Baggage Allowance, Express Lanes and Lounge access. Individual and corporate membership options are available. Please visit www.airpacific.com/Tabua-Club, email tabuaclub@airpacific.com or call 673 7631 / 673 7630 for details.

ISSUED March 13, 2012

Air Pacific Executive Office
For press queries please contact:
Shane Hussein
Manager Public Relations and Communications
Air Pacific Limited | Nadi, Fiji
Ph: +679 673 7425; Cell: +679 9906164
Shane.Hussein@airpacific.com

ABOUT AIR PACIFIC

Air Pacific and its subsidiary Pacific Sun together fly over 400 flights per week. The company operates B747, and B737 aircraft from Fiji to 15 cities in 10 countries. Destinations include Hong Kong, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands. Air Pacific aircraft bring in 68 percent of all visitors who fly to Fiji. The Company employs over 790 employees, earns revenues of F$600 million, and directly contributes a significant portion of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Pacific Sun operates a combination of ATR 42-500s and De Havilland Twin Otter aircraft on Fiji’s 10 domestic island routes and regional flights to Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu

Air Pacific, the Fiji island's national airline, has earned an envious reputation as the prime carrier on the Australia-Fiji holiday route, offering typically gracious Fijian service.

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TV PATROL EARNS NOMINATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL EMMYS!

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The Kapamilya network has again penetrated the International Emmy Awards!

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs news program "TV Patrol World" is nominated in the News category of 2011 International Emmy Awards.

TV Patrol World's extensive coverage reports on the August 23, 2010 Quirino Grandstand hostage drama where 9 Hong Kong tourists where killed caught the attention of international media and even the Emmy's.

TV Patrol Manila Hostage Crisis will be pitted against Jornal Nacional: War on Drugs of TV Globo Brazil, RUV News: Volcano Eruption at Eyjafjallajokull of RUV Icelandic National Broadcasting Service in Iceland and SkyNews Live at Five: Inside the Taliban of Sky News UK.

For complete list of 2011 International Emmy Award nominees visit their website at http://www.iemmys.tv/awards_nominees.aspx

Winners will be announced by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on September 28 in New York City.

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GMA NEWS DEPARTMENT RECIEVES INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION!

1:11 AM

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MANILA, Philippines - Panalo ng tatlong major awards ang GMA News and Public Affairs sa katatapos lamang na 2011 COMGUILD Awards. Kasama na rito ang award para sa best news program na iginawad sa 24 Oras, ang flagship primetime newscast ng GMA Network.Nanalo rin sa 2011 COMGUILD Awards sina GMA News pillar Arnold Clavio bilang... best entertainment talk show host (para sa Tonight With Arnold Clavio ng GMA News TV Channel 11) at senior reporter Jiggy Manicad bilang best male field reporter of the year.Nakamit ni Clavio, anchor ng Saksi (GMA 7) at Balita Pilipinas (GMA News TV Channel 11) at host ng Rescue (GMA 7) at Tonight With Arnold Clavio (GMA News TV Channel 11), ang 43.45% ng boto mula sa mga judges; habang 22.5% lang ang nakuhang boto ng pumangalawa sa kanya.Sabi ni Clavio ng tanggapin niya ang award, “Nagsimula po ako sa isang payak na pamilya sa Tondo, Maynila – produkto ng public schools sa elementarya at high school, working student noon sa UST at ngayon isa na pong Kapuso. Kaya tandaan ninyo po mga ’igan, ang kahirapan ay hindi hadlang sa inyong mga pangarap.”Si Manicad naman ay anchor ng 24 Oras Weekend (GMA 7) at ng bagong GMA News TV newscast na NEWS TV QRT (Quick Response Team) na napapanood tuwing 4 p.m. mula Lunes hanggang Biyernes.

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TV Patrol is a 2011 International Emmy Awards Nominee

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ABS-CBN’s flagship newscast “TV Patrol” is nominated in the news category of the 2011 International Emmy Awards.

TV Patrol’s extensive coverage of the August 23, 2010 Manila hostage crisis where 9 Hong Kong tourists where killed is one of the 4 finalists in the news category of the 2011 International Emmy Awards.

TV Patrol is vying against Brazil’s “Jornal Nacional, Iceland’s “RUV News,” and the United Kingdom’s “SkyNews Live.”

Only the finalists in the news and current affairs categories have been revealed on the official website of the International Emmy Awards.

The finalists in the current affairs category, on the other hand, are “21st Century: Cambodia – A Quest for Justice” by UNTV, “The Assassination of Jean Charles Meneses” by Discovery Networks Latin America (Brazil), “Back from the Brink: Inside the Chilean Mine Disaster” by NHK (Japan) and “Unter Piraten” by infonetwork GmbH (Germany.)

The finalists in other categories will be revealed soon.

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News International Under Scrutiny for Routine Email Deletion Requests

3:05 PM

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A technology firm told members of British Parliament that its client, News International, requested the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails since April, 2010.

The firm, India-based HCL, revealed this information in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee of U.K. Parliament, which is investigating News International over the phone hacking scandal.

In the letter [PDF], HCL lists nine times it was asked to delete emails between April 2010 and July 2011.

HCL handles the live email systems for News International. That means that the vast majority of emails it manages were sent during the last 15 days. Messages older than 15 days are managed by a different provider. In essence, HCL helps deal with situations that are beyond the client support desk’s skills.

Most of the deletion requests appear to be normal email management tasks. One request, in April 2010, for instance, was to delete more than 200,000 delivery failure messages. In this incident, HCL says that the messages were successfully removed by the News International help desk before HCL could do anything.

Other requests covered common email maintenance tasks like deleting public folders or clearing clogged outboxes. If you have ever managed a mail system for a large organization, you know it can often require lots of tweaks.

The only incidents that could raise questions about News International’s intentions would be those in September 2010 and January 2011, when HCL was asked about deleting historical email.

In the first case, HCL was asked to work with a third party vendor to delete archived email from News International’s systems. The rationale by News International was that cleaning up the archived databases for the mail servers would make email more reliable and more manageable.

In January 2011, News International asked HCL if it would be able to truncate an email database — that is, delete or compress parts of the data in the database. HCL was unable to do this and told News International to talk to a third-party vendor.

We’ve already seen so many ethical lapses in the phone hacking scandal, it’s easy to immediately look at any requests for email deletion, no matter how innocuous, with suspicion.

That’s certainly how some of the British MP’s see the situation. The Guardian quotes one member of Parliament as saying, “It certainly looks as if … News International were deliberately thwarting their investigation.”

In a statement, News International said that “[it] keeps backups of its core systems and, in close co-operation with the (police’s) Operation Weeting team, has been working to restore these backups.”

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