NZ Health Ministry didn’t heavy clinicians over Fiji patient: Bloomfield
Ashley Bloomfield says the New Zealand Ministry of Health did not heavy Auckland clinicians into changing their minds and accepting a UN official with...
Safeguarding Melanesian fishing communities against climate threats
Those who live on the islands and atolls of the southwestern Pacific Ocean are exposed to rising seas and severe storms like almost no...
Tonga legislators set to enforce COVID-19 vaccination
Tonga is set to introduce compulsory inoculation against COVID-19.
A Bill to amend the Public Health Act to enforce inoculation of the Public against COVID-19,...
NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s father was part of dawn raids as young police officer
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s father, Ross Ardern, carried out Dawn Raids as a young policeman in Auckland.
The involvement of Ardern’s father in...
Fiji records 1,220 new cases of COVID-19: 7 new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 1,220 new cases of COVID-19 and seven deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases in the island nation to 32,663...
Increasing COVID death worries Fiji’s Ministry of Health
Fiji's main island Viti Levu remains at the mercy of COVOD-19 and this is concerning for the Ministry of Health as 2 261vlives have...
PNG Controller calls on citizens to take COVID-19 vaccine
Papua New Guinea Commissioner of Police and Controller of the PNG COVID-19 National Pandemic Response, David Manning, has called on citizens to come forward...
World’s best female weightlifters at the Tokyo Olympics inspire Nancy Abouke of Nauru
By Makereta Komai, PACNEWS Editor in Tokyo
At only 18 years of age, Nancy Abouke of Nauru is now ranked 10th in the women’s 76kg...
Dr Luis Cruz reflects on ONOC’s Medical Shared Services at Tokyo 2020
Since the ancient Olympics in Greece, medicine and healthcare have played a key role in the success of athletes in every Olympiad
The same holds...
PNG Olympic Committee turns 60 this week, meet its Secretary General, Auvita Rapilla
No doubt, many in the national, regional and global sporting and Olympic Movement probably do. Rapilla is a trailblazer in the sporting world.
‘I've...
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Sustainable fisheries can’t be built on exploited labour
By Alfred "Bubba" Cook
The connection between human welfare and ocean conservation is direct and unavoidable, a new op-ed argues, because lawlessness toward people often...
Pacific Islands must act now on Fiji’s HIV lessons
Fiji now has the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic. Public education campaigns could stop it spreading across the region.
By Connor Graham
Fiji recorded 1,583 new HIV...
‘Keep the eyeballs on the game’: All Blacks legend backs Super Rugby shake-up
As Moana Pasifika get set to meet the Fijian Drua in the opening weekend of Super Rugby 2026, former All Black Mils Muliaina believes...