U.S won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands
One of the most senior U.S officials in the Pacific has refused to rule out military action against Solomon Islands if it were to...
PNG Governor General to seek advice on election date change
Papua New Guinea Governor General Sir Bob Dadae is expected to announce if the 2022 National General Election will proceed as scheduled or deferred...
New Zealand commits to climate financing
The New Zealand government has increased its climate finance to a billion dollars over the next four years, with the Pacific, including Fiji, receiving...
FSM submits additional continental shelf claim in the North of Yap area
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)last Friday, filed with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf a claim of an...
China military expert says Scott Morrison’s red line is ‘ridiculous’
A former senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army has laughed off suggestions that Beijing takes Australia’s concerns about its new pact with the...
New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration
The peopling of the Pacific is one of the most significant migrations in human history. And now an archaeological discovery on a small island...
Labor pledges more foreign aid to Pacific with plan ‘to restore Australia’s place as...
Labor will vow to increase foreign aid to Pacific island countries and ramp up patrols to fight illegal fishing, as it makes an election...
Japan sends senior official to Solomon Islands over China security pact
Japan dispatched a senior official to the Solomon Islands on Monday amid concern that a recently concluded security pact between the southwest Pacific nation...
Vanuatu PM call for Russia and Ukraine to return to negotiating table
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has called on the governments of Russia and Ukraine to return to the negotiation table, as a peaceful approach...
Fiji’s 2022 General Election campaigns start today
Fiji’s official 2022 General Elections campaign period starts today – 26 April, 2022.
The Fijian Elections Office Monday launched the campaign guidelines detailing the do’s...
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Vanuatu Trade Minister steps down, New Minister appointed amid value addition fund concerns
Vanuatu's Minister for Trade and Industry, Samson Samsen, has stepped down following public concern over the administration of the Value Addition Funds, with Prime...
Solomon Islands advances environment and climate law reforms
The Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) has continued consultations with the Prime Minister's Office Legislative and Policy...
From a classroom in Vanuatu to the world’s highest court: How Pacific students changed...
Six years ago, a group of 27 University of the South Pacific law students in Vanuatu asked what many believed was an impossible question.
Could...