Rise in gun trade for 2022 election in PNG
There has been an increase in the trade and movement of guns along Papua New Guinea’s borders in preparation for the 2022 national election...
Fiji records 160 new cases of COVID-19, five new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 160 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases in the island nation to...
Palau, FSM, RMI, Kiribati, and Nauru to form MPS Secretariat
Nauru is looking to host a Micronesia Presidents’ Summit Secretariat with leaders of Nauru, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of the Marshall...
Pacific Minister raises concern about PNG COVID-19 vaccine rate
Australia's Minister for the Pacific, Zed Seselja, recently declared that “until everyone is safe from COVID, no one is safe”.
But it's an objective that...
Samoa hopes to re-open tourism by 2022
Holidaymakers wanting to travel to Samoa once borders re-open will likely have to wait until 2022.
CEO of Samoa's tourism authority Fa'amatuainu Lenata'i Suifua said...
19 Vanuatu MPs retain seats
The decision of the former Vanuatu Speaker of Parliament on the announcement of the vacation of seats of 19 Members of Parliament (MPs) has...
‘Pardoning Unfair’: Former Vanuatu MP
The President of Liberal Democratic Party, Willie Jimmy, said granting pardons to three former Vanuatu Prime Ministers (PMs), particularly Charlot Salwai, who had not...
Climate action essential to cool ‘season of fire and floods’ worldwide: Deputy UN chief
With extreme weather events increasingly impacting countries across the world, the deputy UN chief on Monday underlined the importance of limiting temperature rise to...
Fiji records 128 new cases of COVID-19, 12 new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 128 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths Monday, increasing the total number of cases in the Pacific nation to 47,923...
PNG COVID-19 summit to be held in November
A National Summit on Covid-19 will be held this November, says Papua New Guinea National Pandemic Controller David Manning.
Manning said that they intended to...
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