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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will urge U.S President Joe Biden to remain focused on the Indo-Pacific region as the war between Israel and Hamas intensifies. The prime minister flew out for Washington on Sunday for a four-day official visit to the U.S. It will be the ninth meeting between the two leaders since Albanese's election victory in 2022. Albanese said he...

Pacific Leaders and delegates traveling to the Cook Islands for the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM52), can expect a warm and colourful Polynesian welcome during the PIFLM52 opening ceremony to be held on the evening of 06 November 2023 at the National Auditorium in Rarotonga. The islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki have been a hive of activity over...

After three and a half years providing support for Pacific Islands Countries, the Pacific Humanitarian Pathway on COVID-19 (PHP-C) has been formally closed. Established by Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers in April 2020, the PHP-C enabled the delivery of over 390 tonnes of health and humanitarian relief supplies to 15 Forum Member countries. Following the World Health Organisation's declaration in May...

The excitement is building as the countdown continues to the official opening of the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM52), to be hosted by the Cook Islands Government as the Chair from 06 -10 November 2023. Guided by the theme, “Our Voices, Our Choices, Our Pacific Way: Promote, Partner, Prosper,” PIFLM52 will bring together Pacific Leaders, Pacific Regional Organisations,...

Making data, information, knowledge, investment and innovation available for all, especially for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), will be a game changer in transforming global agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. This was a key takeaway from a special event focused on enabling research, science, and innovation in LMICs...

Three-Test series in England – an exclusive club of three members since 1907 – give us one thing more than anything else: narratives. Other matches can’t provide the dramatic tension that this centuries-old system does: the same players representing the same teams facing off again in a week with new gripes and feuds to sort out. “We lost the game ourselves;...

A late Sunia Turuva try has led Fiji Bati to a thrilling 22-18 victory over the Cook Islands in their Pacific Championships clash in Port Moresby on Sunday. Down 18-16 with six minutes to play, the 2023 Dally M Rookie of the Year did it all himself, darting and weaving his way through Cook Island defenders to keep his side's...

Toa Samoa coach Ben Gardiner believes there'll be long-term gain to come from the pain of his side's underwhelming Pacific Championships campaign. A 50-0 hammering by New Zealand in Auckland, which followed a 38-12 loss to Australia a week prior, marked a disappointing outcome for the island nation as they crashed out of the competition a year on from their...

A member of the International Atomic Energy Agency team visiting Fukushima for its first marine sampling since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started releasing treated radioactive wastewater into the sea said Thursday, he does not expect any rise in radiation levels in the fish caught in the regional seas. The IAEA team watched flounder and other popular kinds of...

Pacific civil society, representing the voices and concerns of communities deeply impacted by the climate crisis is disappointed with the recent remarks made by Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka while on a State visit in Australia. His comments, suggesting that the Pacific take a 'realistic' approach towards Australian coal mining and gas production, demonstrate a concerning lack of urgency...