Oceans under threat like never before, warns World Meteorological Organisation
Climate change has hit the world’s oceans hard, UN weather experts said on Monday, in a call for lifesaving monitoring and early warning services...
242 new COVID-19 cases reported– PNG total up to 3,359
A total of 242 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Saturday bringing the Papua New Guinea total confirmed cases to 3,359.
The death toll...
Nearly 80,000 COVID-19 vaccines bound for Samoa
Samoa caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi says that 79,000 batches of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in the country by the end of...
Over 500 Fijians selected for overseas employment opportunities during the COVID19 period
The deployment of the third batch of 162 Fijians last week has taken Fiji’s number to over 500 workers in Australia since the recommencement...
Pacific Islands Forum: the first casualty of a changing culture of dialogue
by Hermann Mückler
The withdrawal of the five Micronesian members from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) may be seen by pessimists as the beginning of...
RNZAF delivers PPE to PNG to help with COVID-19 response
Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 have carried out a contactless delivery of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Port Moresby...
Early school break for PNG, as government plans to arrest current surge in Covid-19...
Term one of the school year has been cut short, and a four-week holiday begins on Monday, as the Papua New Guinea Government implements...
PNG could already have Covid vaccines if Australia and others had not blocked waiver,...
Papua New Guinea could have received Covid-19 vaccines before its current crisis if Australia had not been part of a group of countries that...
We are in the crisis of the century’: Europe threatens to seize AstraZeneca factories
Europe has threatened to seize AstraZeneca factories and strip the pharmaceutical giant of its intellectual property rights in a fresh escalation of the bitter...
Democratic Party reject calls for decade-long ban on seabed mining in policy flip
Following a recent public consultation in the northern group and an internal policy review, the Cook Islands Opposition Democratic Party has come out against...
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Vanuatu becomes 112th State party to Cluster Munitions Convention
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) Presidency has welcomed Vanuatu as the 112th State Party to the Convention, effective 1 March 2026.
In a statement,...
The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study...
Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on...
Palau steps up preparations for 55th Pacific Leaders Meeting
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Deputy Secretary General Esala Nayasi met Wednesday with Palau Minister of State Gustav Aitaro and members of Palau’s National...