Allied forces converge on Guam for Cope North exercises amid tension over downed Chinese...
-Approximately 1,000 U.S airmen, marines and sailors will train alongside 1,000 combined Japan Air Self-Defence Force, Royal Australian Air Force and French Air and...
No one above the law’: Fiji Home Affairs Minister
No matter how high one’s public status is, no one is exempt from the law.
This was reiterated by Fiji'S Minister for Home Affairs Pio...
Cook Islands PM Brown welcomes Kiribati back into PIF
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is welcoming Kiribati back into the fold of the Pacific Islands Forum.
The Micronesian nation pulled out of the...
‘Prioritise recruitment of skilled Melanesians’: Vanuatu PM
Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau, who is also chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat has stressed any future employment within the Melanesian...
Crown Law mum on review of Cook Islands Crimes Bill
Moves to remove homosexuality from the Cook Islands Crimes Act are still awaiting sign off from Crown Law.
Cook Islands News has been attempting to...
Mango Island residents have a place to call home after Tongan eruption and tsunami...
After the Tongan volcanic eruption and tsunami of January 2022, Mango Island was destroyed, making it uninhabitable for the residents.
A new community has been...
Papua New Guinea crowned Miss Pacific Islands
Twenty-four-year-old Miss Papua New Guinea Josie Nicholas was crowned Miss Pacific Islands on Friday.
After a three-year hiatus due to Covid, the pageant was held...
In the midst of neocolonialism – What are the threats to Pacific solidarity?
By Robert Underwood
The state of Pacific island solidarity in the midst of a serious crisis pertaining to climate change and the strategic competition...
France, Australia and the First Nations foreign policy
By Nic Maclellan
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles have just met their French counterparts Catherine Colonna and Sébastien Lecornu...
Fiji’s Great Council of Chiefs to meet in May
One of the Pacific’s oldest political institutions, the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) abolished in 2012 by former Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama will...
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Marshall Islands backed to host 2029 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting
Forum Foreign Ministers have backed the Marshall Islands’ bid to host the 2029 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, which would coincide with the country’s...
High Seas Treaty faces biodiversity knowledge gap as most deep-sea species remain unnamed
A landmark treaty to protect biodiversity on the high seas has entered into force, but scientists warn that much of the deep-sea life it...
Coalition condemns $20m bill for Fiji climate conference which Labor says is ‘critical to...
The federal government has defended spending $20 million (US$14.12 million) of taxpayers’ money on a global climate conference being held in Fiji, arguing Australia’s...