Positive travellers from African states in quarantine
Fiji currently have COVID-positive travellers in quarantine who arrived in the country from African states before we knew about Omicron.
Permanent Secretary for Health and...
Samoa Electoral Commissioner resigns immediately
Samoa Electoral Commissioner, Faimalomatumua Mathew Lemisio, tendered his resignation on Wednesday with immediate effect to become the new Land and Titles Court Deputy President,...
NZ rugby open to sending teams to Australia for start of Super Rugby Pacific amid COVID travel uncertainty
Amid the ongoing uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, New Zealand Rugby has revealed to Newshub definitively that the inaugural season of Super Rugby Pacific...
Fiji Rugby welcomes change in World Rugby eligibility rule
Fiji Rugby has pledged to continue to invest in its local players and development pathway players.
Following the announcement by World Rugby to approve the...
Fiji welcomes first Australian tourists in 20 months amid Omicron concerns
Fiji has thrown open its doors today to tourists for the first time in 20 months, despite fears over the new Omicron coronavirus variant.
The...
Marshall Islands moves to reduce world’s strictest Covid-quarantine
The Marshall Islands is one of only a handful of nations never to have experienced a single case of community transmission of Covid-19.
Its border...
Australia’s commercial kava importation pilot officially launched
Pacific kava farmers and producers will now have direct access to the Australian market under Phase Two of the Morrison Government's Kava Pilot, recognising...
Wanting to be watchdogs: Pacific journalists and their views
By Shailendra B. Singh, Folker Hanusch
While global scholarship on the professional views of journalists has expanded tremendously in recent decades, the Pacific remains a...
NZ is the latest to join foreign intervention mission to Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has announced that New Zealand officers will now join three other countries: Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Australia...
Bougainville President commends PNG intervention in Solomon Islands
The current troubles in the Solomon Islands must not be seen as an opportunity by Bougainvilleans to prey on the nation's instability says Bouganville...
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Pacific group urges public submissions on U.S-backed deep-sea exploration proposal
A proposal to explore for deep-sea minerals in international waters between Kiribati, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia is open for public comment until...
Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa passes resolution opposing deep-sea mining
The Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa, the largest church denomination in the territory, has formally declared its strong opposition to deep-sea mining within...
U.S rejects sovereignty fears over Solomons Shiprider deal
The United States has insisted its newly signed Shiprider Agreement with Solomon Islands is designed to strengthen, not undermine, the country’s sovereignty.
And it says...