61.   A powerful earthquake was recorded Thursday near a remote Pacific island chain that is part of the Solomon Islands.

62.   A fishing boat with six people on board was missing Saturday after Cyclone Cora battered the Pacific island nation of Tonga, Tongan police said.

63.   A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific island state of Vanuatu early Wednesday morning, the Hong Kong Observatory reported.

64.   A Vietnamese crewman was killed when a Kiribati patrol ship fired on a South Korean tuna boat in waters off the central Pacific island republic, officials said Saturday.

65.   A U.S. missile interceptor launched in a burst of flame Saturday from a Pacific island missed its intended target -- a dummy warhead gliding through space.

66.   After two years of civil strife voters in the Solomon Islands are hoping elections Wednesday will return political stability and economic prosperity to the Pacific island state.

67.   After the war, he directed a fleet of surplus ships that evacuated Japanese from Pacific islands.

68.   ADB said the fund, provisionally called the Pacific Investment Capital Fund, is the first to target the Pacific island nations.

69.   Although Papua New Guinea has vast mineral and other natural resources, many other Pacific islands states have little upon which to build strong economies.

70.   Although the chiefs hold little formal power, they command considerable respect and influence among the indigenous majority in this Pacific island nation.