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Efforts to reform global pandemic preparedness and response are happening too slowly, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response...
Climate crisis does not play politics: Fiji President
Fijian President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere says some Parliamentarians are blinded by political ambition to accept the threat climate change poses on communities around Fiji.
Ratu...
Papua New Guinea will only have one-third of its population vaccinated by 2026
New data released by The Lowy Institute has predicted only a third of Papua New Guinea's adult population will be fully vaccinated by 2026...
FAST party secures Falealupo seat
Fuiono Tenina Crichton is the new Samoa Member of Parliament for Falealupo following the Supreme Court decision Monday to disqualify Tuitogamanaia Dr. Peniamina Leavai...
U.S faces pressure to do more to address its nuclear legacy in the Marshall...
Two Congress members are asking the U.S Department of Energy to provide more information about the effects of U.S nuclear waste in the Marshall...
PNG Hotel-turned drug lab
Papua New Guinea Police have busted a drug trafficking and methamphetamine (meth) underground operation based at the Sanctuary Hotel.
In a raid on the hotel...
Tonga interim Speaker Lord Tangi appointed
Tongan King Tupou VI has appointed Lord Tangi as the Interim Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, effective from Saturday 20 November 2021.
In...
‘Cabal derailed our Covid response’: PNG
Papua New Guinea’s top Covid official has blamed his country’s poor response to the pandemic on its shattered health system and “a cabal of...
U.S lawmakers press White House on Compact talks
United States congressional leaders have ramped up pressure on the White House to elevate focus on negotiations over Compacts of Free Association with the...
British diplomat on climate: ‘This is existential’
The British High Commissioner to New Zealand says it's not her place to single out specific countries which need to do better on climate...
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