Former ruling FijiFirst Party faces deregistration
The suspended former ruling FijiFirst Party has been given a strict deadline of 15 June to submit its audited financial accounts.
Failure to comply with...
Forum SG Puna welcomes official opening of the Pacific Fusion Centre
The Forum Secretary General Henry Puna has welcomed the formal opening in Port Vila today of the permanent offices housing the Pacific Fusion Centre.
The...
Indonesian President to visit PNG next month
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will be making a state visit to Papua New Guinea next month, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister James Marape has...
Plastic pollution – a ticking time bomb, says Fijian Prime Minister
Once a great invention for the service of humanity, plastics have become an enemy of civilisation.
That’s an observation of Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka...
Fijian PM Sitiveni Rabuka visiting New Zealand this week
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has arrived in New Zealand for a visit, including a number of scheduled formal engagements.
Rabuka will spend time in...
Extreme weather events underline need for Climate action in Pacific
World Vision New Zealand is highlighting the urgent need for more innovative grassroots initiatives to help communities in the Pacific mitigate and adapt to...
Trump-era officials under fire as nuclear fund for Bikini islanders is squandered
Former staff have lashed the U.S Department of the Interior for failing to predict that a 2017 decision to lift oversight from a US$59million...
Fiji climate warriors call for Fossil Fuel Treaty ahead of climate meeting in Bonn
350.org Pacific Climate Warriors has encouraged more Pacific governments to back the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty ahead of the Bonn Climate Change Conference next...
Minister says FLNKS willing to discuss changes to election rolls
New Caledonia's pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to the French interior minister Gerald Darmanin.
On his second...
Climate disasters have major consequences for informal economies
In the Pacific Islands and many developing and emerging countries worldwide, the informal economy far outsizes the formal one, playing a vital role in...
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Samoa MPs to be drug tested before they can run for Parliament
Samoa’s war against drugs will extend to ensuring Parliamentarians are drug free before entering an election.
That is the stance of Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao...
“Accountable to Parliament, not the PM”: Solomon Islands PM Manele invokes separation of powers...
Solomon Isands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has moved to de-escalate tensions surrounding the recent mass resignation of Parliamentary Standing Committee chairs, asserting that these...
Dome over contaminated nuclear blast site is leaking — expert warns risk from lethal...
Experts are having a nuclear meltdown.
Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung...