14 death row prisoners to be executed: PNG Correctional Commissioner
Fourteen out of 15 prisoners currently on death row will be executed after a “possible execution mode is identified”, says Papua New Guinea Correctional...
Fiji records 398 new cases of COVID-19, five new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 398 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths Thursday, increasing the total number of cases to 38,742 and 343 deaths...
$14-million climate change funding support to benefits Pacific Islands
Pacific Countries will be benefiting from a $14-million (US$9.7 million) climate change funding support from the New Zealand government.
The five-year funding assistance will help...
‘No public protest is allowed’ says Solomon Islands Attorney General
Public assembly or procession of any form will not be allowed under the current state of emergency unless authorised by the Prime Minister, says...
Pacific Forum leaders set permanent maritime borders, as rising seas shrink islands
Pacific island leaders have agreed that their maritime borders should be permanent, even if their countries shrink due to a future rise in sea...
PNG PM: Focus on Bougainville self-rule
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says Parliament needs to address soon the quest for independence by the people of Bougainville.
“There is no...
‘Bad neighbours’: Australia at risk of becoming ‘global pariah’
Australia is already considered a “bad neighbour” and will become a “pariah” if the federal government does not move past its long-running climate policy...
Travel restricted from Fiji to NZ
Travel is restricted to New Zealand from Fiji this weekend.
There are more than 24,000 active cases of Covid-19 in Fiji and at least 330...
“Dreams destroyed” – what Olympic exile would mean for weightlifting and its athletes
The catastrophic cost of weightlifting losing its Olympic status is laid out in a letter to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and all its...
Three die of COVID-19 in Fiji despite receiving two jabs
-Three individuals who have received their second jab of the COVID-19 vaccine were among the 13 new covid deaths reported by Fiji's Ministry of...
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El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather
El Niño, the climate phenomenon that supercharges weather around the world, has officially arrived and could intensify to historic levels in the fall, U.S...
Trump reopens Pacific marine monument waters to commercial fishing
U.S President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation reopening nearly half a million square miles of protected waters in the Pacific to commercial fishing,...
UNFPA reports major health and Population gains despite funding cuts
By Pita Ligaiula
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says it delivered major gains in maternal health, reproductive health services and population data collection during...