No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas
Developing countries vulnerable to the worst ravages of global heating have spent the past week at United Nations climate talks urging more support from...
Vanuatu’s director of women relishes her role as a technical co-ordinator for negotiators on...
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Sharm El Shiek
Apart from the tough negotiations going into its final stages, one of the Pacific negotiators is...
Global inaction pushes Tuvalu to take innovative steps to prepare to become a digital...
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Sharm El Sheikh
Tuvalu like the rest of the Pacific is not standing idly by, waiting for the world...
Elected PNG MP and Member for Wewak, Kevin Isifu dies
An elected Member of the PNG Parliament and Member for Wewak Kevin Eziro Isifu has died early this morning in Port Moresby.
Isifu was elected...
11th Parliament yet to start
The 11th National Parliament is yet to get underway, having gone past an hour of the scheduled time of 10 am.
About 79 elected members...
Wenge returns after ten years
Counting for the Morobe Regional Seat successfully continued into exclusion 35, to have a Governor elected as of quarter past four this morning.
Despite minor...
84 seats declared so far
A total of 34 seats remain to be declared as of midday today.
From the total 118 seats, 84 seats have been declared, but one...
Four Pacific countries ratifies Port State Measures Agreement
By Pita Ligaiula in Lisbon, Portugal
Four Pacific countries have ratified Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA).
This was revealed by Pacific Oceans Commissioner and Forum Secretary-General,...
Tuvalu attend UN Oceans conference despite diplomatic spat with China
By Pita Ligaiula in Lisbon
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is well represented at the UN oceans Conference(UNOC) in Lisbon this week despite diplomatic spat...
Calls on UN member states to join the Declaration on Preserving Maritime Zones in...
By Pita Ligaiula in Lisbon, Portugal
Pacific Ocean Commissioner and Forum Secretary-General, Henry Puna has called on all UN Members to join the Declaration on...
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Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to democracy, economic reform and national unity in his response to the Presidential address...
French ships visit Hobart amid regional tensions
As France announced it would increase its nuclear arsenal in a major development of its defence policy, its navy docked in Australia, sending a...
Commonwealth Secretary General warns global order is failing people
Commonwealth Secretary General Shirley Botchwey used her remarks at the 26th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) in London to highlight global challenges and...