Spectators are enthralled by coconut tree climbing, stone lifting, spear throwing and outrigger sailing in a Polynesian version of Scotland's Highland Games.

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They say the suspect crashed his car at a shop in the Outrigger Guam Resort before starting to stab bystanders.

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With the fake thatched hut, tribal dancers in grass skirts and 20-foot outrigger canoe onstage, you might think you were in the middle of homecoming at Honolulu High.

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It may be that the Polynesians, having just crossed two thousand miles of the Pacific in a fleet of outrigger canoes, were too exhausted to think about making cooking pots.

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Every October attention turns to the sea during the Hawaiki Nui Va'a, an outrigger canoe race that attracts more than 100 teams which navigate around the Society Islands between Huahine, Raiatea, Taha'a and Bora Bora.

BBC: Getting in the Tahitian spirit

The festival will also feature the 2013 International Ukelele Contest Championships at 8:30 pm on the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel Stage, plus local music and hula dancers on two stages along Kalakaua Avenue throughout the evening.

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De Soto, of Tamuning, is accused of plowing into several people with his gray Toyota Yaris late Tuesday as he drove onto a sidewalk and into a convenience store at the Outrigger hotel in the Tumon district.

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Also on Oahu is Waikiki Beach, long famed for its mellow surf, outrigger canoes and string of hotels that has recently received a facelift with high-profile openings like Ian Schrager's minimalist-chic resort Edition, the Trump International and new tropical outposts of nouvelle Japanese shrines Nobu and Morimoto.

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