U.S targets Oceania’s illegal activities
The United States Coast Guard plans to increase its Pacific Islands presence to deter illegal activity, saying it welcomes collaboration with China including in...
El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather
El Niño, the climate phenomenon that supercharges weather around the world, has officially arrived and could intensify to historic levels in the fall, U.S...
Trump reopens Pacific marine monument waters to commercial fishing
U.S President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation reopening nearly half a million square miles of protected waters in the Pacific to commercial fishing,...
Forum SG Waqa calls for stronger Pacific Security coordination amid growing regional threats
Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa has warned that growing geopolitical tensions and a widening range of security challenges are testing the region's peace and...
Pacific calls for greater support on disability inclusion at UN Conference
The Pacific Islands Forum has called for increased international support to strengthen disability inclusion across the region, highlighting persistent barriers faced by persons with...
Forum hail election of Samoa and Palau representatives to UN Disability Rights Committee
The Pacific Islands Forum has congratulated Samoa's Faatino Utumapu and Palau's Villaney Remengesau following their successful election to the United Nations Committee on the...
Bougainville Speaker Pentanu disputes PNG Parliament sessional order process
Bougainville House of representatives Speaker Simon Pentanu has challenged claims made in Papua New Guinea’s National Parliament regarding the sessional order on the Bougainville...
Islands threatened by climate change ‘need to be compensated’ by CO2 emitters: Tuvalu PM
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo, a Pacific Island nation facing the threat of submersion due to climate change-induced sea level rise, said that the...
Taiwan seeks to maintain “development partner” role at Pacific Islands Forum despite China pressure
Taiwan will strive to maintain its participation in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as a “development partner,” Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim said whilst visiting...
Bougainville Independence talks may feature in Marape-Wale meeting
Bougainville’s independence could be on the agenda when Pacific leaders meet in Palau later this year.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale – the current...
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Pacific AI creator says AI must know when to stop
By Pita Ligaiula
As Pacific leaders move to develop the region’s first AI governance framework, the creator of an independent Pacific-focused AI system says...
Proposed Fiji Constitution timeline risks electoral crisis: CDD
The Centre for Democracy and Dialogue (CDD) has warned that the proposed timeline to bring a new Fiji Constitution into force by 24 December...
Don’t rush Fiji constitutional reform: National Federation Party President Prasad
Fiji’s coalition government partner, the National Federation Party (NFP), says it will not support any rushed process to amend the country’s 2013 Constitution.
NFP Leader...