Zero-Tolerance Drug Law Clears Palau Legislature
Palau lawmakers finally passed a long-awaited, wide-ranging anti-drug bill that would expand drug testing, increase penalties for drug offenses, and direct new funding toward...
Forum audit raises accountability pressure over finances
The Pacific Islands Forum has released its 2023 Audited Financial statements, setting out its financial position, audit findings and the steps being taken to...
Forum report lays out gains and gaps as Pacific faces rising pressures
The Pacific Islands Forum has released its 2023 Annual report, detailing progress across key regional priorities while warning that mounting global pressures continue to...
Solomon Islands PM outlines government response and priorities
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, Tuesday outlined the Government’s response to Tropical Cyclone Maila, the global fuel situation, regional developments, and key governance...
Cook Islands government urges energy conservation amid global fuel crisis
The Cook Islands government is urging residents and visitors to conserve energy amid a coordinated response to global fuel supply pressure.
In a statement issued...
Japan to help Pacific island nations create payment processor
The Japanese Finance Ministry will help create a framework for handling international remittances in Pacific Island nations and territories as major banks that process...
Fiji Assistant Foreign Minister breaks rank, Opposes Vuda waste to energy project
Fiji’s Assistant Foreign Minister and National Federation Party (NFP) MP Lenora Qereqeretabua has publicly opposed the proposed Energy-to-Waste (ETW) project in Saweni, Vuda, warning...
Solomon Islands’ political crisis will ‘not fundamentally change’ ties with Beijing
Regardless of how the current political crisis in the Solomon Islands unfolds, experts told Radio Free Asia that they anticipate no change in the...
Pacific wisdom key to climate response: Fiji PM Rabuka
‘For Fiji, climate change is encountered through our relationship with the Vanua, ocean, communities, and in our faiths.’
These were the sentiments shared by the...
High oil prices are devastating Island states – and moving the needle on Climate
By Fenton Lutunatabua
This week, over 50 countries are joining forces to move the needle on what is proving to be one of the world’s...
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Micronesia calls for Climate finance, Ocean protection and fossil fuel transition
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) has called for stronger climate action, predictable adaptation finance and a faster transition to renewable energy, warning that...
Pacific must not become consumers of AI: Wahuzue
By Pita Ligaiula
Pacific newsrooms risk becoming consumers of artificial intelligence systems shaped outside the region unless they build their own tools, rules and...
French Polynesia Assembly calls for UN Mission to Tahiti
The Assembly of French Polynesia has called for a United Nations mission to visit Tahiti and assess directly the political situation and aspirations of...