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Papua New Guinea Governor General Sir Bob Dadae has advised Electoral Commissioner Simon Sinai that any changes in the election –– including the extension of counting –– must be done within the confines of the Constitution. Sir Bob, who was concerned about the election -related violence and ballot hijacking in certain parts of the country and the slow pace of...

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), which wants independence from Indonesia. The deal was signed by Roch Wamytan, the President of New Caledonia's Congress, and the visiting ULMWP leader Benny Wenda. Wamytan told La Premiere both territories are involved in a process of decolonisation and emancipation -...

Samoa might be a small country in the eyes of the world but when it comes to matters of the Ocean, it is a large ocean state. As such, Samoa is home to exceptional habitats such as seamounts, coral reefs, mangroves, and oceanic basins, which contribute significantly to the economy and the identity of Samoan people. That is the message...

U.S Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and U.S ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy plan next month to visit the Solomon Islands, where their fathers fought in World War Two and the United States is now in a modern-day battle for influence with strategic rival China. Sherman and her delegation will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal...

Running in a group like a pack of animals, they were armed with bush knives, iron bars and other weapons as they chased down two men outside the counting centre at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Waigani, in Port Moresby Sunday afternoon. They reached the first man, and without a second thought they slashed him. Then they reached the second man,...

Pangu party is not rigging the Papua New Guinea elections says party leader James Marape. He said if Pangu had rigged the elections, it would have made a clean sweep of all 118 seats, including Maprik Open in East Sepik, which party strongman, John Simon has lost. “People have been falsely claiming that Pangu is rigging the elections, that there are...

The New Zealand Chief of Army, Major General John Boswell is visiting Fiji on Wednesday 27 July. The Officer Cadet School of New Zealand is currently undertaking Exercise Veiliutaki in the Republic of Fiji, which is designed to test students in command, leadership and battle craft in a jungle environment. On Wednesday there will be a sports day with contests between...

Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of Vanuatu. It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College before he secured the required minimum number of 38 on Saturday. In the end he got a resounding 47 votes, after the Prime Minister Bob Loughman brokered a deal with the nine MPs of the coalition party led by former...

Alok Sharma, the man entrusted to accelerate global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has warned Australia must be prepared to lift its own ambitions if it wants to host a United Nations climate summit in two years’ time. The British cabinet minister, who won plaudits for his chairing of the fractious COP26 summit in Glasgow in November, said while...

Thousands of Marshall Islanders converged on Ebeye Island last week for the first coronation ceremony of a paramount chief in half a century. The gala coronation for Iroojlaplap or paramount chief Michael Kabua featured dozens of islanders wearing traditional headdress and finely woven mat clothing unique to the Marshall Islands, spear carrying warriors representing the 12 atolls and single islands...