Pacific Women Leaders Meet to strengthen gender equality, inclusion
Ministers from Governments and Ministries across the region will be in Suva this week for the second Pacific Islands Forum Women Leaders meeting to...
Push for Pacific to leverage Canberra on climate action
The Australian Greens leader has written to Pacific island elders urging them to reject a bid to co-host a major environmental summit unless the...
Macron to be told: 2021 New Caledonia referendum is not valid
The leaders of five Melanesian nations have agreed to write to the French President Emmanuel Macron “expressing their strong opposition” to the results of...
Vanuatu Minister Regenvanu condemns MSG for ‘failing’ people of West Papua
By Len Garae in Port Vila
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has failed West Papua, says a Vanuatu government champion of West Papuan self-determination.
Minister for...
Pacific Trade Invest releases comprehensive review of the impact of COVID-19 across key Pacific industries
Pacific Trade Invest (PTI), the region’s leading trade and investment promotion agency, have released a series of insightful reports, the Pacific Business Monitor COVID...
Migration, evidence and climate change in the Pacific
By Colette Mortreux, University of Melbourne
There has been much discussion about the impacts of climate change on migration, with calls that the world is...
Tuisova, Ravai recovering well: Flying Fijian coach
Flying Fijians winger Josua Tuisova and prop Peni Ravai are recovering well.
The two missed the historic 30-22 win against England on Saturday after sustaining...
‘We can win this’: How Fiji shocked England and the rugby world
By Peter FitzSimons
Simon Raiwalui is a Fijian raised in Australia, who played in the Australian Schoolboys team in the early 1990s with the likes...
Young Tongans dream of the rugby meal ticket
On the rocky foreshore of Popua, in the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa, a group of girls and boys are tossing around a rugby ball.
Siua, 13,...
UN appeals for nuclear test ban amid ‘alarming rise in global mistrust’
The United Nations on Tuesday called for more global action to end nuclear testing, warning against the danger of “collective suicide”.
In his message marking...
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Pacific shipping lifeline faces crisis as experts push wind-powered transition
For many Pacific Island communities, a delayed ship does not just mean inconvenience. It can mean empty store shelves, fuel shortages and isolation.
“Shipping is...
Timor-Leste is vulnerable to ‘infiltration by foreign organised crime’, President José Ramos-Horta says
Timor-Leste is vulnerable to “infiltration by foreign organised crime”, the country’s president, José Ramos-Horta, has warned.
His comments come as Australian federal police (AFP) confirmed...
Fiji Climate Change Minister set key priorities to accelerate Pacific climate action
“1.5 is not negotiable and is a red line grounded in science and in our lived reality.”
This was the strong reminder from Fiji's Minister...