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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on World Health Day is calling for immediate and decisive action to ensure that every mother and every baby receives the care they deserve. WHO’s year-long campaign, “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures” urges countries to renew their commitment to ensure good-quality health care for every mother and every newborn. The maternal mortality ratio is a key indicator...

With just hours remaining before Papua New Guinea Parliament resumes to address the Vote of No Confidence (VONC), as directed by the PNG Supreme Court ruling a week ago, 82 MPs aligned with the government attended a caucus meeting Monday showing a firm show of support for their Prime Ministerial candidate. Sighted in the caucus was Gulf Governor Chris Haiveta...

The chairman of Lakapi Samoa Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi says the reason behind the delay in the selection of a new Manu Samoa coach was the interview panel. Tuilaepa said that the holdup was due to the panel or committee handling the interview process of the selection. The panel is made up of people from overseas and locally. Manu Samoa will face...

By Dr Satyendra Prasad I normally avoid writing about domestic issues of countries other than my own. Such writing requires insights and depth that I cannot even pretend to have. When actions that other countries take impact on the Blue Pacific, then these issues are no longer domestic. They are fair game. Has the international environment been transformed? When President Trump took...

Twelve further factors, in addition to the direct causes, have been identified as contributing to the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in Samoa, the final Court of Inquiry report has found. Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui ran aground with 75 people on board in Samoa whilst conducting a hydrographic survey of a reef on Saturday 5 October...

The body running the new UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) caused by climate change has recommended that it should focus initially on helping governments rather than local communities deal with the aftermath of climate-driven disasters like floods and droughts. A proposal by the FRLD’s secretariat, which will be debated at the fund’s board meeting in Barbados...

The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted. The American president rattled markets, manufacturers and more Wednesday announcing a baseline of 10 percent...

Fiji and American lovers of high-end bottled water Fiji Water - stand as the big losers of US President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff play in the Pacific. In the blue continent, some of the world's poorest economies are reeling after discovering they too will be subject to tariffs from the White House. The U.S President unveiled global tariffs on imported goods...

Fiji's Ministry of Finance states the imposition of a 32 percent across the board tariff on Fijian exports into USA is quite disproportionate and unfair. In a statement, the Ministry said this is due to the fact 96 percent of U.S imports into Fiji attracts either zero duty or just 5 percent. “We are still trying to get more details on...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says he will only re-work constitutional ties with New Zealand if the new agreement makes it clear his country is now “more independent” — risking a fresh brawl with Wellington. Brown has been caught up in a bitter dispute with New Zealand over contentious agreements he's signed with China, as well as his push...