Cook Islands welcome Micronesia’s pause on exiting the Pacific Islands Forum
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown welcomes the decision by the Micronesian Leaders to “pause” their withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum to enable...
Pacific Islands Forum Chair welcomes Micronesia position
The Pacific Islands Forum Chair, Acting Prime Minister of Fiji Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum says the temporary suspension of the FSM withdrawal from the Pacific...
Cook Islands call on United States to formalise a high level dialogue mechanism with the Pacific
The Cook Islands, through Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration Tingika Elikana called on the United States to formalise a high level dialogue...
Tonga PM counts mental health ‘cost’ of disasters
Tonga's Prime Minister Hu'akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni says his island nation is trying to rebuild the lives of its people and not just its infrastructure,...
PNG to reopen borders shut by Covid
Papua New Guinea will reopen to vaccinated travellers from Wednesday, ending two years of strict border closures that virtually sealed the Melanesian nation off...
IAEA observers visiting Fukushima in Japan to assess nuclear water dumping plans
Japan's plan is to dispose more than one million tonnes of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean next year.
International Observers are visiting its...
Pacific Islands continue the call for climate action on journey to COP27
The Pacific Islands are unpacking the Glasgow Climate Pact this week, continuing their work for a 1.5-degree world.
Reflecting upon the outcomes of the Twenty-Sixth...
Kaiviti Silktails to face PNG Hunters for the Melanesian Bowl
The Kaiviti Silktails will kick off their season in the NSWRL with a trial match against the PNG Hunters for the Melanesian Bowl, with...
Fijian Drua Memorabilia can launched
The Fijian Drua team will have its own beer in the Super Rugby Pacific competition in the 2022 season.
Thanks to Paradise Beverages Ltd, the...
Adapting to climate change ‘happening worldwide’, essential
The impacts of climate change are already “very visible” and “happening worldwide”, the head of the UN weather agency told the start of the...
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Tuvalu calls for faster climate finance to protect Pacific communities
Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo has called for faster and more accessible climate and disaster financing for Pacific Island countries, warning that delays in...
Minamata survivor calls on countries to act on mercury pollution
By PACNEWS Editor Makereta Komai in Minamata, Japan
Seventy years after one of Japan’s worst industrial pollution disasters, a survivor is calling on countries yet...
Pacific health voices call for climate finance and action ahead of COP31
Pacific health and climate officials are calling for urgent action, stronger climate finance and protection of the 1.5°C target as Pacific countries take their...