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The excitement is building as the countdown continues to the official opening of the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM52), to be hosted by the Cook Islands Government as the Chair from 06 -10 November 2023. Guided by the theme, “Our Voices, Our Choices, Our Pacific Way: Promote, Partner, Prosper,” PIFLM52 will bring together Pacific Leaders, Pacific Regional Organisations,...

Making data, information, knowledge, investment and innovation available for all, especially for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), will be a game changer in transforming global agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. This was a key takeaway from a special event focused on enabling research, science, and innovation in LMICs...

Three-Test series in England – an exclusive club of three members since 1907 – give us one thing more than anything else: narratives. Other matches can’t provide the dramatic tension that this centuries-old system does: the same players representing the same teams facing off again in a week with new gripes and feuds to sort out. “We lost the game ourselves;...

A late Sunia Turuva try has led Fiji Bati to a thrilling 22-18 victory over the Cook Islands in their Pacific Championships clash in Port Moresby on Sunday. Down 18-16 with six minutes to play, the 2023 Dally M Rookie of the Year did it all himself, darting and weaving his way through Cook Island defenders to keep his side's...

Toa Samoa coach Ben Gardiner believes there'll be long-term gain to come from the pain of his side's underwhelming Pacific Championships campaign. A 50-0 hammering by New Zealand in Auckland, which followed a 38-12 loss to Australia a week prior, marked a disappointing outcome for the island nation as they crashed out of the competition a year on from their...

A member of the International Atomic Energy Agency team visiting Fukushima for its first marine sampling since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started releasing treated radioactive wastewater into the sea said Thursday, he does not expect any rise in radiation levels in the fish caught in the regional seas. The IAEA team watched flounder and other popular kinds of...

Pacific civil society, representing the voices and concerns of communities deeply impacted by the climate crisis is disappointed with the recent remarks made by Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka while on a State visit in Australia. His comments, suggesting that the Pacific take a 'realistic' approach towards Australian coal mining and gas production, demonstrate a concerning lack of urgency...

Cook Islands is stepping up its seabed minerals bid as it will host international agencies at the annual Underwater Minerals Conference (UMC) on Rarotonga next year. Prime Minister Mark Brown made the announcement at a face-to-face debriefing last week following his attendance at the 2023 UMC conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands earlier this month. The Underwater Minerals Conference (UMC) is an annual...

Plastic pollution has infiltrated every corner of the earth, from the depths of our oceans to the most sacred of spaces, a mother's womb. As the world grapples with the plastic crisis, international efforts are underway towards a legally binding treaty to address this global issue across five International Negotiating Committee (INC) meetings. The first two INCs were held in Uruguay...

The relations between China and Fiji are “solid and inclusive,” and the two countries are “relating to each other as families,” Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Viliame Gavoka told the Global Times on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). When asked about whether geopolitical factors...