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Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dr Filimon Manoni has urged the region to take the lead in shaping global ocean governance, warning that the Pacific cannot afford to lose momentum ahead of the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France later this year. Speaking at the opening of the UNOC3 Technical Meeting on Tuesday, Dr Manoni highlighted the importance of ensuring...

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press the region's aid and climate priorities with the Trump Administration. Community groups across the Pacific Islands, one of the world's most aid reliant regions, are scrambling to find ways to pay staff after U.S funding...

Papua New Guinea faces a significant cancer burden, with an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 new cases each year, according to Ken Wai, Deputy Secretary for the National Capital District Provincial Health Authority. Wai revealed these figures at a World Cancer Day commemoration ceremony held at the Lawes Road Clinic, in the National Capital District. Citing World Health Organisation International Agency for...

By Henrietta McNeill, Research fellow, Australian National University In his first term, Donald Trump deported far fewer people from the United States than his three predecessors: Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Just weeks into his second term, however, Trump is making the deportation of immigrants one of his top priorities. Immigration raids on those who have overstayed their...

As the 2025 season draws closer, Savea is the only current player on Moana Pasifika’s books seconded from NZR. Players such as Savea’s older brother Julian or former Hurricanes teammate Jackson Garden-Bachop do not meet that same criteria, having not procured a contract with another New Zealand-based Super Rugby team. However, Savea’s case of being a current capped All Black...

World Rugby Chair Brett Robinson touched on ongoing negotiations for a new global men’s competition, The Nations Championship, which aims to include Japan and Fiji alongside top-tier rugby nations. World Rugby Chair Brett Robinson has shed some light on a new competition involving our Flying Fijians. This as World Rugby has reaffirmed Japan’s strong interest in hosting the 2035 Rugby World...

The newly appointed Fiji Rugby Union (FRU) Rugby Director Laijipa Naulivou does not condone lesbianism in our national women’s rugby teams. However, she said players have their rights, and the issue has to be managed well. Naulivou who captained the first Fiji women’s rugby team told SUNsports that this was something that she opposed during her playing days. “Those who played with...

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is looking forward to advancing his vision of the Blue Pacific region as an “Ocean of Peace” when he meets U.S congress members, prominent leaders and business figures at the National Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington this week. Since first attending the Prayer Breakfast in 1992, when he was introduced to the event by the...

A geopolitical Pacific expert says it's strange that the media were informed of New Zealand's review of aid to Kiribati instead of diplomats. Last week, Winston Peters announced that New Zealand's government is rethinking development support to the country after the Kiribati President Taneti Maamau withdrew a week before a planned visit. New Zealand gave Kiribati NZ$102 million(US$57.48 million) from 2021...

Aid agencies operating in the Pacific are still scrambling to assess the impact of U.S President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order freezing billions of dollars in foreign aid last week. The directive halted disbursement of funds from the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) for at least 90 days to review each programne’s alignment with Trump's “America First” foreign policy. In...