‘Friends to all’: U.S-China influence race a boon for Pacific islands
When the U.S secretary of state travels through Papua New Guinea's capital this week to meet the leader of the South Pacific nation, it...
Fiji and PNG take steps to strengthen diplomatic presence
Fiji has been offered a 99-year land lease in the Central Business District in Port Moresby for the construction of its chancery in Papua...
Postponement of Biden’s Australia, PNG Visit Raises Criticism
Biden administration officials are pushing back against criticism over the decision to postpone a visit to Australia and a historic trip to Papua New...
Loughman withdrew his motion of no confidence against PM Kalsakau
The Leader of the Opposition, Bob Loughman, withdrew his motion of no confidence against Prime Minister, Ishmael Kalsakau this morning in parliament.
Loughman told parliament...
Pacific pressure: Island leaders say security ties at risk unless Australia does more to...
Pacific leaders are warning the Albanese government it must raise its climate goals or risk harming Australia’s security ties to the region, following an...
‘Weak and insufficient’ progress made towards disaster risk reduction
Countries met to review progress on implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction - a landmark 2015 agreement to reduce damage, losses and...
Pacific meetings, defence pact, to go ahead in PNG without Biden
U.S President Joe Biden telephoned his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape on Thursday after cancelling a historic meeting in the Pacific islands nation...
China to consult Canberra on any Pacific security pacts
China says it will consult Australia on any future Sino-Pacific island security pacts after a policing agreement with the Solomon Islands took the region...
United Nations Resident Coordinator to Fiji and Pacific sent on administrative leave
The United Nations Resident Coordinator to Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, Sanaka Samarasinha is currently on administrative leave, after complaints against...
India snubs French territories for regional summit
The third Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) will be held in Papua New Guinea on 22 May – but the full membership of...
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New report warns of Solomon Islands health system under strain
Australia is being accused of draining skilled health workers from Pacific Island countries to fix its own shortage of care workers, pushing fragile health...
Fiji secures agreement on Ocean and climate action Resolution at UNEA-7
Pacific delegations at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) are celebrating a breakthrough in Nairobi with Fiji securing an agreement on...
The Late Akilisi Pōhiva: A Tongan Voice for Justice and Liberation of West Papua
By Mele Tuuakitau, USP Journalism Student
Tonga’s Support for decolonisation in the Pacific: Can we do more?
As a small island state in the Pacific,...