Election machete attack puts PNG capital on high alert
Residents of Papua New Guinea's capital were told to stay home and troops were deployed to its streets on Monday, after a brutal election-related...
‘No place like home’: Climate change threatens Fiji’s rugby nursery
The white sands of Namatakula have nurtured generations of world-class rugby talent but rising sea levels threaten to force the abandonment of the palm-fringed...
Statement by Forum Secretary General Henry Puna on the latest killings and escalating election...
It is with deep sadness and concern that I condemn the recent deaths and escalating violence in Papua New Guinea, including in Porgera and...
PNG Governor General concerned about violence, delay in counting
Papua New Guinea Governor General Sir Bob Dadae has advised Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai that any changes in the election –– including the extension...
New Caledonian separatists sign MoU with West Papua counterpart
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), which wants independence from...
Samoa Ocean Strategy video calls for global response to avert worst climate scenarios
Samoa might be a small country in the eyes of the world but when it comes to matters of the Ocean, it is a...
Sherman and Kennedy to visit Solomons, where fathers fought and U.S. now vies with...
U.S Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and U.S ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy plan next month to visit the Solomon Islands, where their...
Armed supporters cause chaos in PNG capital
Running in a group like a pack of animals, they were armed with bush knives, iron bars and other weapons as they chased down...
We are not rigging elections: Pangu leader Marape
Pangu party is not rigging the Papua New Guinea elections says party leader James Marape.
He said if Pangu had rigged the elections, it would...
New Zealand Chief of Army visits Fiji
The New Zealand Chief of Army, Major General John Boswell is visiting Fiji on Wednesday 27 July.
The Officer Cadet School of New Zealand is...
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Tonga PM calls for Climate adaptation investment, says resilience is Pacific’s top security challenge
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