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The Micronesian Congress has reaffirmed the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM)diplomatic ties with China after outgoing President David Panuelo had urged a switch to Taiwan. The Congress of the island country last week adopted a resolution “to reaffirm and reiterate that the One China Policy remains the official policy of the FSM.” The congressional resolution requested that President Panuelo not alter...

The SPREP Treaty was signed in 1992, in Apia, Samoa. Under the Treaty, the purpose of the organisation is to provide assistance to the Pacific to protect and improve the environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future generations. Through its work, SPREP strives to support and empower young Pacific people working to build a resilient Pacific in...

A team from the Sol2023 Pacific Games Organising Committee (GOC), accompanied by the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) confiscated illegally printed and sold t-shirts from two Chinese shops in Honiara. A total 50 t-shirts that featured on it, ‘Solo’ the official Games Mascot were pulled off the shelves of Bisi shop and New Fashion shop at the Alvaro Building...

Six teams from around the Pacific and one from Europe have assembled in Auckland ahead of the OFC U15 development tournament in Auckland. It is being played at the OFC 'Home of Football' Te Kahu O Kiwa' from today until the 17th of April. The tournament, which has been funded through UEFA Assist, features academy teams from Vanuatu, Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga,...

A great day for the Fiji media industry as years of enduring harsh media laws is finally over. Fiji Times Pte Ltd general manager Christine Lyons summed up the mood at the company after the Media Industry Development Act (MIDA) was repealed by majority vote in Parliament Thursday. “It is a great day for all media companies and journalists in Fiji...

Hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, cocooned within one of the U.S Navy’s most technologically advanced pieces of equipment, Rear Admiral Jeff Jablon is clear-eyed about the two biggest challenges his team faces. “In today’s world, we are facing two nuclear peer adversaries where we’ve never had that before,” he explains on board the USS Mississippi,...

Palau President Surangel Whipps Junior said he wanted the seabed mining practice temporarily suspended until at least 2030. “The ocean for us is life. We depend on it for sustenance, we depend on it for our economy – without it, we would not be able to survive,” he said. “Whether they're dredging it or clawing at the bottom and the plumes...

Junior Tooma was only a month old when a deadly disease quickly took over his body - and one his family feared would eventually take his life. The youngster, his three siblings and their parents live in one of the remotest places in the world in South Tarawa, Kiribati, in the central Pacific Ocean. The country is made up of 32...

Young people in the Pacific have proposed an action plan on how they can bring about change in society building on the Youth Vision for a Corruption-Resilient 2050 Blue Pacific. They discussed strategies for gathering momentum for the Pacific youth anti-corruption movement through the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), the only legally binding...

Seeking to retain the status quo on the Federated States Micronesia’s (FSM) diplomatic relations with China, the FSM Congress weighed in on a resolution urging outgoing President David Panuelo to suspend his plan to switch ties to Taiwan. “Our nation’s diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China is an example of hard work, consultation and study by our Department...