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Fijiana Drua have burst the NSW Waratahs' bubble to all but book a berth in the Super W final. The Drua turned on the style to snap the Waratahs' 21-match unbeaten streak with a 29-10 win in their top-of-the-table clash on the Gold Coast. The Waratahs had never previously lost since the advent of the women's competition in 2018 but the...

Digicel Pacific has signed their inaugural Super Rugby Pacific sponsorship with Moana Pasifika and is the new sponsor for the jersey sleeve for the 2022 season. Digicel’s TV services – Digicel TV and Sky Pacific brings the game of rugby into the homes of many of the Pacific Island nations and has held exclusive TV broadcast rights for the Pacific...

NIWA scientists are sailing to Tonga next week to survey the ocean around the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcano after the devastating eruption in January. Thousands of square kilometres of the sea floor will be surveyed, with video capturing the eruption’s impact from NIWA’s research vessel, RV Tangaroa. The ship will leave on Saturday, 09 April, and the knowledge gained will be vital...

Commemorating over a decade of achievements made, the staff of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) had a special virtual farewell event for the SPREP Director-General Kosi Latu today. Latu began with SPREP as the Deputy Director-General in 2008, then became the Director-General in 2016. His term as the SPREP Director-General comes to an end on 01...

The digitalFIJI strategy aims to develop a $1bn (US$500 million) digital economy in Fiji by 2030 - matching the size of the country's tourism industry. In this exclusive interview, Satyendra Prasad, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations, highlights why digital is not optional for SIDS. In what ways can digital catalyse the last two years of the SAMOA Pathway?...

“Arboviruses” might not be something most of us are familiar with, but for almost four billion people, they’re a deadly threat – which is why the UN health agency on Thursday, launched a plan to prevent them from causing a new pandemic. The most common arboviruses are in fact some of the world’s most dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses, such as Dengue,...

A smaller eruption in Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) volcano may have primed it for the massive explosion that happened in January this year, revealed a new study. The smaller eruption may have sunk the volcano’s main vent under the surface of the ocean, priming it for the massive explosion a day later, triggering a tsunami and sending plumes of...

The Solomon Islands on Thursday said it had inked a wide-ranging security pact with Beijing, an agreement Western allies fear will pave the way for the first Chinese military foothold in the South Pacific. “Officials of Solomon Islands and the People's Republic of China have initialled elements of a bilateral Security Cooperation Framework between the two countries today," said a...

One of the ADF's most senior officers has warned that if China manages to station warships in Solomon Islands it would “change the calculus” for Australia's military, forcing a change to Defence operations. Concern is growing that Honiara and Beijing will soon sign a new security pact allowing Chinese personnel and equipment to be stationed in the Pacific nation, which...

Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape and Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo discussed ways to further deepen the bilateral trade ties during the former’s visit to Indonesia on Thursday. Both countries set their sights on increasing the current bilateral trade volume, which managed to book a strong growth despite the pandemic. According to Jokowi, Indonesia-Papua New Guinea (PNG) trade...