South Pacific Cyclone Season starts today
The first day of November is also the first day of the South Pacific cyclone season.
Last season taught humanitarian and emergency personnel that they...
Antigua, Tuvalu to seek justice over climate change damage
The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and the Prime Minister of Tuvalu today signed a historic accord allowing for litigation before international courts.
This...
Whipps pleads with world leaders to take “radical action now” on climate crisis
Palau's President Sunangel Whipps Jr. has appealed to the world leaders to take “radical actions” to combat the devastating impacts of climate change to...
COP26: the world’s best chance to save our one blue planet – Pacific ACP...
Ahead of the G20 Rome Summit and COP26 in Glasgow, Pacific Leaders have written a letter to G20 Leaders, asking the G20 to do...
UNICEF and UN Human Rights welcome Fiji’s Climate Change Act
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for the Pacific welcomes Fiji’s...
No COVID-19 positive person boarded the Fiji-Solomon Islands repatriation flight
Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services has downplayed rumours circulating in the social media that three COVID-19 positive persons boarded the Fiji-Solomon...
Pacific nations can’t be left behind at COP26
Experts from the Australian National University (ANU) warn Pacific nations are at risk of being left behind in global climate negotiations if they aren't...
Samoa Prime Minister calls for a re-think in aid to the region post Covid
Covid is an opportunity to put things right in the aid system, Samoa’s Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mataafa told the New Zealand Council for...
Xi pledges to join PNG for community with shared future for China, Pacific island...
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that the Chinese side stands ready to work with Papua New Guinea (PNG) to build a community with...
France deploys vast force to secure New Caledonia referendum
France has detailed an unprecedented security set-up for New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum on 12 December.
The French authorities made the announcement as...
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Vanuatu Parliament dissolution judgement Friday
The constitutional hearing regarding the case challenging the President of the Republic of Vanuatu over allegations of a conflict of interest in signing the...
Pacific Islands wait for Trump, wary of climate and China stance
Pacific island nations at the centre of a strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China that brought infrastructure and funding hope President-elect Donald Trump...
Tonga’s PM Hu’akavameiliku throws in the towel
By Lopeti Senituli
In a highly anticipated session of the Tongan parliament to debate and vote on the second vote of no confidence (VONC)...