Up to 100 live bottlenose dolphins can be exported from the Solomon Islands every year, and the government is encouraging residents to enter into the lucrative trade, the fisheries minister said today.

VILLAGERS buried their dead where they found them — including two young boys discovered yesterday in one shattered community — as frustration mounted over delayed help for survivors of the Solomon Islands’ devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Aid workers helping survivors of a tsunami disaster in the Solomon Islands complained today that the relief efforts were chaotic and lacked resources.

International aid trickled to survivors today after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Solomon Islands.

Survivors picked through ruined stores today in a desperate search for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by a tsunami, as an international relief effort made tentative first steps.

A massive undersea earthquake sent a tsunami crashing into the South Pacific nation of Solomon Islands today, destroying at least one town and killing eight people, including six children, officials said.

Two Solomon Islands Cabinet ministers were refused bail today so they could leave prison to take up their posts, the nation’s Magistrate’s Court ruled.

New Solomon Islands prime minister Snyder Rini today declared that law and order had been restored to his country, after hundreds of police and troops cordoned off Parliament for its first sitting since Rini’s election last week triggered two days of rioting.

Scores of Australian troops were today flying to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific to restore peace after rioters and looters laid waste to much of the capital Honiara’s Chinatown neighbourhood in protests sparked by the election of a new prime minister.

Socceroos coach Guus Hiddink will phone Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez and Newcastle manager Graeme Souness in an effort to boost Australia’s hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in Germany next year.

AN Australian policeman was shot and killed in the Solomon Islands yesterday - the first fatality since Canberra deployed security forces last year to help stabilise the troubled archipelago.

Australia coach Frank Farina has named a 20-man squad for next week’s FIFA Confederations Cup qualifiers against the Solomon Islands.

POLICE regained control of the Solomon Islands’ main prison yesterday after more than 100 inmates rioted.

AUSTRALIAN troops began a peace mission to the lawless Solomon Islands yesterday, splashing ashore at a beach where US Marines fought the Japanese in one of World War II’s most crucial battles.

AN Australian warship left for the lawless Solomon Islands yesterday carrying the first contingent of a 2,000-strong force of troops and police hoping to restore order to the near-bankrupt South Pacific nation.

At least 15 villages have been washed into the ocean on one of two Pacific islands devastated by a massive cyclone, an anthropologist said today.

A CYCLONE that devastated remote South Pacific islands five days ago washed away at least two villages and there was no word on the fate of about 700 people who lived there, local officials said yesterday.

People on two remote Pacific islands devastated by a powerful cyclone have started rebuilding their homes, Australian aid officials said today after flying over the area.

A SEVERE cyclone has smashed into three remote South Pacific islands shredded trees and buildings, but aid officials downplayed fears about the fate of the islands’ 2,000 residents.

One of two tiny South Pacific islands cut off from the world for days by a massive cyclone has been left devastated, according to reports.

One of two tiny South Pacific islands cut off from the world for days by a massive cyclone has been left devastated, a New Zealand cameraman said after flying over it today.

More than 1,300 people on two remote Pacific islands haven't been heard from since a hurricane swept through the region over the weekend.