Since 2006, Nauru Air Corporation has been trading as Our Airline and promoting co-operation amongst neighbouring countries to improve airline services in the region.

The strategy has seen a number of new aviation initiatives and partnerships developed over the years since 2006 that have provided new services, linked new destinations and delivered more affordable travel in the region.

“I believe the Our Airline initiative has served us well over the last eight years” says Geoff Bowmaker, CEO “ however, also important is the very proud history behind Nauru’s servicing of its own, and the region’s, air transport needs going back more than the last forty years.”

“In recognition of the proud history of Nauru’s aviation achievements over these many years and the natural and primary role of the airline in servicing the people of Nauru, I am very pleased to confirm that effective 1 August, 2014, the trading name of Nauru Air Corporation will be re-named to NAURU AIRLINES” says Mr Bowmaker.

In his 46th Independence Day speech in January this year, His Excellency President of Nauru Baron Waqa foreshadowed this positive change, in conjunction with the impending arrival into service of the new all freight aircraft.

“I am pleased also to advise that the all freight aircraft is set to commence services to Nauru on Friday 1st August, bearing the proud external livery of NAURU AIRLINES” says Mr Bowmaker.

The Hollywood actor and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie has been invited to visit the Pacific island state of Nauru, where more than 1,000 asylum seekers transferred by the Australian government are in detention.

But contrary to media reports, she has not formally accepted the offer, Guardian Australia understands.

Jolie was invited by Nauru’s president, Baron Waqa, at a global summit in London to end sexual violence in conflict, which she co-chaired with Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague.

According to a spokeswoman for the Nauruan government Jolie accepted a verbal invitation from Waqa to visit both the offshore detention centres on the island and the areas recently created to resettle those found to be refugees.

id agency Plan International Australia says a leaked report of conditions in the immigration detention centre on Nauru has highlighted the need for an independent commissioner to ensure children are provided proper protection.

The assessment of conditions in the centre was conducted by a sub-committee appointed by the Australian Government and reported in The Guardian newspaper.

Plan International Australia CEO Ian Wishart says it shows that "some basic things are being simply not provided to children on Nauru".

"This report says that no clear child protection framework is in place - you've got 190 children living in a very crowded camp with adults," he said.

YAREN, Nauru ----- The Nauru Government has moved to set up an internationally managed trust fund so that the country's financial future is secure for generations to come.

The minister for finance David Adeang held talks with senior officials of the governments of Australia, China, and the Asian Development Bank earlier this month regarding the proposed establishment of the Nauru Trust Fund.

Adeang says the aim is to establish a financial investment vehicle to assist the Republic to achieve greater financial autonomy in the long term.

The trust fund is envisioned to include financial contributions from Nauru and partner countries, with a build-up period estimated at 20 years allowing for an accumulation of contributions and investment returns.

The next meeting will be held in April to consider the final report.

Transfield Services has been granted a $1.2bn contract to manage Australia’s offshore detention centres at Nauru and Manus Island, following a chaotic week on Manus Island.

In a statement to the Australian stock exchange on Monday the company said it would hold a contract to run the centre on Manus Island for 20 months and on Nauru for 12 months.

Protests on Manus Island last week escalated into violence involving guards, local contractors and asylum seekers. One asylum seeker was killed during the disturbance and several were seriously injured. The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has been criticised after being forced to revise his account of where the events took place, conceding on Saturday night that most happened inside the perimeter of the centre.

Transfield will provide “facilities management” – which includes building maintenance and catering – as well as security services, which on Manus will be subcontracted to Wilson Security, the company that provides security at the Nauru centre.

“Transfield Services has considerable experience in this type of work, having been on Nauru since the centre there was established and before that, providing similar services at defence facilities,” the company’s managing director, Graeme Hunt, said.

Nauru and Solomon Islands are being used as guinea pigs in a trial survey of household expenditure that could lead to the development of consumer price index baskets to monitor inflation and poverty.

Nauru's Director for the Statistics Bureau Ipia Gadabu,says that if the questionnaires and modules they are using in the year long survey prove successful they'll be rolled out across the Pacific.

The survey is an undertaking of the Secetariat of the Pacific Community, the Asian Development Bank and the governments of both countries