Scott Morrison says Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be ‘red line’ for...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says China building a military base on Solomon Islands would be the "red line" for Australia and the United...
Australia’s Governor-General David Hurley visit Fiji
The first-ever State visit from the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, David Hurley, to Fiji this week will be a landmark achievement in...
Why Australia and the U.S care so much about China’s security pact with a...
By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN
When China announced it had inked a security pact with a tiny Pacific island nation this week, there was little...
A drop in the ocean? Organised crime dynamics in Pacific Island countries
By Tess Cain
Although Pacific Island countries do not experience high levels of criminality, shifts in transnational dynamics are changing the region’s organised crime landscape....
Australian Defence Minister Dutton suggests bribes swayed Solomon Islands-China pact
Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton has suggested the Solomon Islands government signed a security pact with China after being bribed.
As the fallout from the...
Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security
Former Solomon Islands prime minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says the country needs an economic solution to its instability problems, not a security solution.
Lilo said...
Japan to send minister to Solomons over China security pact fears
Japan will send a vice foreign minister to the Solomon Islands possibly later this month due to concerns that a security pact between the...
Australia knew about China-Solomons security deal before it was leaked
Australia knew about a secret draft security pact between China and Solomon Islands weeks before it mysteriously surfaced on the internet, with several government...
Opposition says PM Sogavare attempts to save face after ‘secret signing’ was released from...
Solomon Islands Opposition Leader Matthew Wale says it is unfortunate that the security pact with China had to be secretly signed and was only...
José Ramos-Horta wins in landslide Timor-Leste presidential election
The Nobel prize winner José Ramos-Horta has scored a landslide victory in Timor-Leste’s presidential election, according to preliminary results published by the election secretariat.
The...
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Samoa MPs to be drug tested before they can run for Parliament
Samoa’s war against drugs will extend to ensuring Parliamentarians are drug free before entering an election.
That is the stance of Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao...
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