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Papua New Guinea's Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister Jelta Wong has announced the critical steps to safeguard the nation's water in response to the discharge of wastewater from Fuskushima power station. Minister Wong has unveiled plans to introduce rigorous monitoring and testing procedures to detect hazardous materials in PNG's water. To fund this initiative, Papua New Guinea will request financial assistance...

When Tonga Parliament meets on Tuesday MPs will decide on a vote of no confidence (VONC) based on growing dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku’s Siaosi Sovaleni performance. The motion was submitted by MP Dr Eke of Tongatapu 5, supported by 10 MPs altogether which included two nobility MPs Lord Nuku and Tu’ivakano. The question is whether enough MPs will vote against...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) continues to strengthen partnerships for a resilient Blue Pacific through the first SPREP Partnership Dialogue taking place in Samoa, at the Taumeasina Island Resort, on Monday. The meeting attended by SPREP Members, partners and donors to strengthen collaboration, coordination and networking, kick started the week of the 31st SPREP Meeting of...

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...