Bougainville Independence talks may feature in Marape-Wale meeting
Bougainville’s independence could be on the agenda when Pacific leaders meet in Palau later this year.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale – the current...
IPCC warns funding shortfall threatens Climate Assessment cycle
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that a major funding shortfall is raising concerns over the successful completion of its Seventh...
Israel to open representative office in PNG, FM Sa’ar announces after talks with PM Marape
Israel will open a representative office in Papua New Guinea, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar announced after a conversation with Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister...
IPCC chief says 1.5°C threshold near as scientists push ahead with new Climate assessment
IPCC Chair Jim Skea has warned that the world is now approaching a point where exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming is “almost...
New Zealand closes down Tokelau self-governance
The New Zealand Government has quietly killed off Tokelau’s bid for increasing autonomy, minutes of a crucial regional fishing body reveal.
They show that while...
Pacific reaffirms Nuclear-Free stance as Rarotonga Treaty marks 40 Years
Pacific Island countries have reaffirmed their commitment to a nuclear-free region as the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, widely known as the Rarotonga...
Fish Fund supports Tonga’s first notification under the agreement on fisheries subsidies
The WTO Fish Fund has marked an important milestone with the submission to the WTO of the first-ever fisheries subsidy notification made possible through...
Experts say ‘bare bones’ U.S laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
The deep-sea mining industry could launch in the near future in U.S federal waters. Yet legal experts and former government officials...
Fiji UN envoy calls for Truth Commission link to Constitution review
Fiji’s Permanent representative to the United Nations, Filipo Tarakinikini, has called for the country’s Constitution review process to be directly linked to the work...
89 ‘yes’ votes needed in parliament, Final step in Bougainville’s political future
An absolute three-quarter majority – or 89 MPs – of the 118-member Papua New Guinea Parliament is needed to ratify the 2019 Bougainville referendum...
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Bougainville independence must be resolved by PNG, Bougainville: Aust Foreign Minister Wong
Australia says the question of Bougainville’s independence must be resolved through negotiations between the Autonomous Bougainville Government and Papua New Guinea, while Canberra is...
PNG faces crisis due to impacts of El Niño, sends warning to rest of...
A severe environmental crisis.
Those were the words used by Papua New Guinea’s First Secretary for the Ministry of Transport, Coffee and Meteorology, Nos Werao...
Fiji takes South Fiji Basin claim to UN
Fiji is seeking international recognition of the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the South Fiji Basin, with its...