Marshall Islands maintains Covid restrictions, ups vaccinations and readies for worst
In a world reeling from the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant, one of the strictest quarantine border controls has kept the Marshall Islands...
Rise in gun trade for 2022 election in PNG
There has been an increase in the trade and movement of guns along Papua New Guinea’s borders in preparation for the 2022 national election...
Fiji records 160 new cases of COVID-19, five new deaths reported
Fiji has recorded 160 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths Tuesday, increasing the total number of cases in the island nation to...
New deal secures more Pacific Islander farmworkers for Victoria
Victoria will get an extra 1,500 Pacific Islander workers to fill shortages on farms, but the farming federation has warned more quarantine facilities are...
Fiji with highest COVID infection rate aims to have Australians back within months
When Brent Hill, one of Australian tourism’s most successful marketers, decided to swap his role with a destination that boasts one of the planet's...
The U.S strategy to counter China in the Pacific could be a $1bn misstep
Opinion by Gerard Finin and Terence Wesley-Smith
After decades of ambivalence, the United States plans to expand its footprint in the Pacific islands region...
‘COP26 must be postponed’ – Climate Action Network
Vaccine inequity, unaffordable accommodation, travel challenges and new surges in the Covid19 pandemic will lock out huge numbers of developing country delegates from the...
Palau, FSM, RMI, Kiribati, and Nauru to form MPS Secretariat
Nauru is looking to host a Micronesia Presidents’ Summit Secretariat with leaders of Nauru, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of the Marshall...
Pacific Minister raises concern about PNG COVID-19 vaccine rate
Australia's Minister for the Pacific, Zed Seselja, recently declared that “until everyone is safe from COVID, no one is safe”.
But it's an objective that...
Palau, Nauru ink air service agreement
Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr, signed an air service agreement last week with Nauru, citing Palau looks forward to the day when air services...
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