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By Grant Walton Over the past few years the Pacific has been a hive of anti-corruption activity. Pacific Island nations have introduced new anti-corruption organisations and legislation; signed international treaties; seen protests, as well as social and traditional media exposés; and have participated in numerous regional meetings about how to best tackle corruption. Regional ownership over the issue has...

By Josep Borrell 24 February 2022 will forever be recalled as the day when Russia started its brutal, unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine. This was and remains a case of pure aggression and a clear-cut breach of the UN Charter. This war is neither ‘just a European issue’, nor is it about the ‘West versus the rest’. It is about...

Solomon Telekom Company Limited’s television service TTV and National Broadcaster Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) have agreed on a carriage relationship to broadcast the new SIBC TV service nationwide on TTV’s transmitters and streaming Application TTV Now. The MOU, signed in Honiara, details the relationship between TTV and SIBC should SIBC be granted intellectual property rights by the Pacific Games...

Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has acknowledged the Australian Government for its continuous support towards Fiji after the launching of the Fiji Rugby Union 2023 Women's Rugby campaign in Nadi Wednesday. Officiating at the launch alongside Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong, PM Rabuka highlighted that the gathering underscores the importance of our Vuvale partnership and while we are...

Waisake Kativerata has been appointed the new Head Coach and Coaching Director of the Fiji Bati. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and Fiji National Rugby League Chairman Aporosa Lutunauga made the announcement of the new coach in a media conference in Suva today. Kaiverata takes over from Josaia Rabele, who guided Fiji at last year’s Rugby League World Cup in England. “Wise...

The UN Human Rights Office has launched Pacific Climate Tales – an animated video series where migrant workers from the Pacific region share their personal stories about climate change, leaving home and how it affects their human rights. As part of our yearlong count-down to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 75 anniversary on 10 December and the #StandUp4Migrants campaign,...

Pacific leaders are urging UN member states to finalise a high seas treaty in the next two weeks to protect global marine biodiversity. Negotiators from around the world convened for the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Conference on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) from Monday at the UN headquarters in New York - with the meeting running until 03 March. Fiji's...

The chairmanship of the Pacific Islands Forum will be passed from Fiji to the Cook Islands at the Special Leaders Retreat in Nadi this week. Outgoing Chair Sitiveni Rabuka took up the role when he was elected as Prime Minister in December last year but will hand over that role to his Cook Islands counterpart, Mark Brown. “My tenure as chair...

Australian foreign minister Penny Wong has announced Australia will rapidly scale up security and development cooperation with the sprawling Pacific Island nation of Kiribati as the federal government tries to ensure China doesn't gain a strategic foothold in the country. The foreign minister met Kiribati's President Taneti Maamau Tuesday in the capital Tarawa on her first visit since Labor won...

Fiji and Papua New Guinea have reasserted their commitment to regional solidarity and mutual cooperation on issues of interest to both nations. This was conveyed Tuesday at a meeting held between the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape. Speaking at a press conference, Prime Minister Rabuka thanked Prime...