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Meneng District
Meneng (or Menen) is a district located in the Meneng Constituency in the country of Nauru. The constituency elects 2 members to the Parliament of Nauru in Yaren District, Yaren. Geography The district is located in the southeast of the island, covering an area of 3.1 km². It has a population of 1,400. Meneng District has 18 villages, the most of any district in Nauru. Local features Features in Meneng include: * The Menen Hotel, one of the island's four hotels * the wireless station * the State House (presidential residence; recently burned down) * the Government Printing Office * the Meneng Stadium * Australian Nauru Detention Centre Education Meneng Infant School is in Meneng.Education Statistics Digest 2015 " Department of Education (Nauru). Retrieved on July 8, 2018. p. 47 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Nauru
Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, about to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, northeast of Solomon Islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshall Islands. With only a area, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world behind Vatican City and Monaco, making it the smallest republic as well as the smallest island nation. Its population of about 10,000 is the world's second-smallest (not including colonies or overseas territories), after Vatican City. Settled by people from Micronesia circa 1000 BCE, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century. After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nauru Detention Centre
The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru. The use of immigration detention facilities is part of a policy of mandatory detention in Australia. The Nauru facility was opened in 2001 as part of the Howard Government's Pacific Solution. The centre was suspended in 2008 to fulfil an election promise by the Rudd Government, but was reopened in August 2012 by the Gillard government after a large increase in the number of maritime arrivals by asylum seekers and pressure from the Abbott opposition. Current Coalition and Labor Party policy states that because all detainees attempted to reach Australia by boat, they will never be settled in Australia, even though many of the asylum seekers detained on the island have been assessed as genuine refugees. The highest popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Nauru
The president of Nauru is elected by Parliament from among its members, and is both the head of state and the head of government of Nauru. Nauru's unicameral Parliament has 19 members, with an electoral term of 3 years. Political parties only play a minor role in Nauru politics, and there have often been periods of instability in the Presidential office. Shifting allegiances among a small number of individuals can lead to frequent changes in the makeup of the government of the day, including the presidential position itself. List of presidents Latest election See also * List of colonial governors of Nauru References {{Heads of state and government of Oceania Politics of Nauru Nauru Presidents President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ... 1968 establishment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Aingimea
Lionel Rouwen Aingimea (born 2 September 1965) is a Nauruan lawyer and politician. He served as the fifteenth president of Nauru from 2019 to 2022. He currently serves as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru. Early life Aingimea was born in September 1965 into the Deiboe tribe. He studied law in Australia and subsequently worked for the Regional Rights Resource Team NGO,Nauru Parliament picks lawyer Lionel Aingimea for president Deutsche Welle, 27 August 2019 and as a public defender in the . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canstruct
Canstruct is a facilities management, construction, and service provision company based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with operations in the Pacific region. The company's headquarters is located at 769 Fairfield Rd, Yeerongpilly (a suburb of Brisbane). Canstruct has three core business divisions: Humanitarian Services; Infrastructure; and Support Services. As of February 2022, Canstruct is owned by a holding company, Rard No 3. The holding company's directors are Robin Murphy and his three sons, Rory, Adrian and Daniel. Operations The company describes their work as "logistics, facilities management, construction and engineering, education and recreation services, community engagement, and disaster and emergency relief". Robin Murphy is a recipient of the medal of the Order of Australia for "services to the construction industry." Nauru contract Canstruct held a AUD $591 million contract from the Australian Government to provide services at Nauru Regional Processing Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OHCHR
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nations that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights. The office is headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who co-ordinates human rights activities throughout the United Nations System and acts as the secretariat of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. The eighth and current High Commissioner is Volker Türk of Austria, who succeeded Michelle Bachelet of Chile on 8 September 2022. In 2018–2019, the department had a budget of $201.6 million (3.7 per cent of the reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nauru Secondary School
Nauru Secondary School (abbreviated as NSS) is an upper Government school, public secondary school in the Yaren District, Nauru, located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Technical & Vocational Education Training Centre. The school served years 10-12 and had the final stages of secondary education in Nauru. it served years 8 through 12. It uses the curriculum of Queensland, Australia.Teachers for Nauru " Queensland Government. Retrieved on July 5, 2018. In the 1950s it served grades 4 and 5, and a new building opened in 1954. Reuben Kun, who wrote an article about Nauru's university system, stated that in that period there was an unanticipated increase in the number of students at the school. The school had classes teaching Nauruan langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denigomodu District
Denigomodu is a district in the western part of the island of Nauru. It is the most populous district in Nauru. It houses the expatriate housing compound "The Location". This makes it Nauru's largest settlement by population. 25.7% of the people in Nauru live in Denigomodu. Geography The district, part of the constituency of Ubenide, covers an area of 1.18 km², and has a population of 2,827, making it the most populous of the fourteen Nauruan districts. Local features In this district is the laborers' settlement for the phosphate mining workers of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC). Also located in Denigomodu are: * Republic of Nauru Hospital * NPC planning and construction offices * Eigigu Supermarket Education The primary and secondary schools serving all of Nauru are Yaren Primary School in Yaren District (years 1-3), Nauru Primary School in Meneng District (years 4-6), Nauru College in Denigomodu District (years 7-9), and Nauru Secondary School (years 10-12) in Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Education (Nauru)
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Public Education, and the head of such an agency may be a minister of education or secretary of education. Such agencies typically address educational concerns such as the quality of schools or standardization of curriculum. The first such ministry ever is considered to be the Commission of National Education ( pl, Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, lt, Edukacinė komisija), founded in 1773 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Following is a list of education ministries by country: Africa * Ministry of National Education (Algeria) * Ministry of Education (Egypt) * Ministry of Education (Ethiopia) * Ministry of Education (Ghana) * Ministry of Education (Kenya) * Ministry of Education (Namibia) * Nigeria: :* Federal Ministry of Education ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meneng Stadium
Meneng may refer to: * Meneng District, Nauru ** Meneng Constituency ** Meneng Hotel ** Meneng Stadium Meneng may refer to: * Meneng District, Nauru ** Meneng Constituency ** Meneng Hotel ** Meneng Stadium {{Disambiguation es:Meneng fr:Meneng hr:Meneng id:Meneng it:Meneng jv:Meneng na:Meneng nl:Meneng ja:メネン地区 no:Meneng pl ... {{Disambiguation es:Meneng fr:Meneng hr:Meneng id:Meneng it:Meneng jv:Meneng na:Meneng nl:Meneng ja:メネン地区 no:Meneng pl:Meneng pt:Meneng ro:Meneng ru:Мененг (округ) fi:Meneng sv:Meneng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituencies Of Nauru
Nauru has 8 Constituencies, and each of them includes one or more districts. Ubenide sends 4 members to the Parliament of Nauru, Meneng 3 members, the others all send 2.Constituencies of Nauru (naurugov.nr) List See also *References External links {{Nauru topics Subdivisions of Nauru |
Menen Hotel
Nauru is a small, isolated western Pacific island, which lacks many of the tourist facilities of some of its larger neighbours, such as Fiji, the Cook Islands, or even New Caledonia. Tourism is not a major contributor to the economy, with only around 200 tourists a year visiting the island. Getting to Nauru Nauru International Airport is the sole airport on the island. Nauru Airlines, formerly known as Air Nauru and Our Airline, is the only passenger airline operating to the island. It operates four passenger (and one cargo) Boeing 737-300 aircraft out of Brisbane, Australia, and provides an air link to Nadi, Honiara, Tarawa, Majuro, and Brisbane. Accommodation There are four hotels in Nauru, including the Menen Hotel, the largest hotel on the island, and the OD-N-Aiwo Hotel. The Menen hosts two restaurants, the Anibare and the Oriental, and one bar. These facilities offer views of Anibare bay, off the east coast of the island. The OD-N-Aiwo Hotel is located in Aiwo Dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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