There is no place for violence in our region: Forum SG
Forum Secretary General Henry Puna has challenged Pacific Islands Forum Women leaders Thursday saying ‘there is no place for violence in our region, and...
Pacific countries are not ‘outposts’ to grow labourers for Australia, Samoan PM says
Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has again raised deep concerns about the exodus of Pacific workers to Australia and New Zealand, arguing that...
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...
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Vanuatu Trade Minister steps down, New Minister appointed amid value addition fund concerns
Vanuatu's Minister for Trade and Industry, Samson Samsen, has stepped down following public concern over the administration of the Value Addition Funds, with Prime...
Solomon Islands advances environment and climate law reforms
The Solomon Islands Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) has continued consultations with the Prime Minister's Office Legislative and Policy...
From a classroom in Vanuatu to the world’s highest court: How Pacific students changed...
Six years ago, a group of 27 University of the South Pacific law students in Vanuatu asked what many believed was an impossible question.
Could...