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The first ever nationwide assessment of Fiji’s coral reefs has successfully concluded after nine weeks of dive surveys. Divers studied coral reef habitats at 272 locations across the country and encountered almost 500 different species of fish, highlighting Fiji’s rich and diverse marine life. * Phase one surveyed 95 sites in the areas of Viti Levu, Beqa, Yanuca, Western Lomaiviti and...

Vanuatu’s Parliament will convene to elect a new leader after the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier decision that a vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister was valid. The decision was announced on Monday morning, following a hearing in front of a panel of six judges last Thursday. The Speaker of Parliament Seoule Simeon lodged the appeal last Monday...

China’s presence in the Pacific region is development oriented without political strings and the country has no interest in geopolitics, says a senior official. Gu Xinqiang, Director of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China in an interview with journalists from the Pacific said that China has no interest...

The Malaysia-based INFO-Fish information and data hub on Asia-Pacific Fisheries and Fish products is a core part of the Pacific Tuna Forum’s energy. Driven in partnership with the National Fisheries Authority of PNG, the Pacific Tuna Forum, now in its 8th year, is preceded by a media training partnership to help journalists registered to cover the Forum, do what they...

With food security as its key all-inclusive vision for Papua New Guinea, the PNG National Fisheries Authority works towards an internationally competitive and sustainable sector and fishing industry, characterised by resilient and commercially inclusive socioeconomic growth. The NFA Board Chair Laurie William and Communications guru Carolyn Ive were key leads in a media training event ahead of the Pacific Fisheries...

Papua New Guinea media are the largest single media industry group of the developing Pacific — and are often at the coalface of learning partnerships, challenges, and opportunities to flex their role as the 4th estate. In quick Q and A mode with PIF Public Affairs, the current PNG Media Council President Neville Choi – leading media training alongside NFA’s...

Pacific Islands Forum Leaders established the Forum Fisheries Agency on 09 August 1979, to build national capacity and regional cooperation so Pacific nations can secure their economic aspirations and sustainability of the Pacific tuna fishery. Last week at a special reporting Tuna fisheries workshop in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, FFA’s Deputy Director General Dr Pio Manoa joined for the closing...

Australian police will stay in the Solomon Islands to provide security for a regional sporting event in November and national elections in 2024, the Pacific Island nation's government has said. The number of officers will increase before November's Pacific Games, when 5,000 athletes from two dozen nations are expected to arrive, according to a statement on Solomon Islands Broadcasting's Facebook...

Pacific Islands Forum secretary general Henry Puna says he hopes Forum leaders would endorse the Pacific Leaders Gender Equality Declaration in November. During a media conference on Friday night at the Forum Secretariat headquarters, Puna said they had entrusted to each forum member to put into actions what leaders had collectively agreed to in Rarotonga in 2012. “As I have mentioned...

Fiji's deputy Prime Minister and Social Democratic Liberal Party leader Viliame Gavoka has confirmed SODELPA’s support for the Coalition government is “very solid”. And he has dismissed reports that claimed he was to deliver a letter to Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka threatening the party would defect to FijiFirst if certain demands were not met. “There is no truth that I delivered...