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Kangaroos kick off World Cup defence with big win over Fiji Bati

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The Kangaroos have launched their World Cup title defence with a 42-8 win over a committed Fiji Bati outfit at Headingley Stadium. A double to...

England hands Samoa tough lesson with 60-6 annihilation

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oa Samoa has been handed a rough reminder at the 2022 Rugby League World Cup that a team of superstars doesn't necessarily win games. The...

Further pandemic support to the Pacific

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The New Zealand Government has announced further pandemic support for Pacific Island countries with vaccine boosters, COVID-19 anti-viral treatments, and by strengthening the capacity...

Australia pledges $20 million for Nauru Education

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Australia's foreign minister announces education funding of at least $20 million (US$12.6 million) over five years in Nauru focusing on “long term change”. Minister Penny...

Majority of former Vanuatu MPs return

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The unofficial results of some constituencies have revealed that most former Vanuatu Members of Parliament (MPs) in the last legislature have booked their seats...

Disaster risk reduction: Only half the world equipped with adequate early warning systems

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A new report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) published on Thursday, warns that half...

Sea-level rise ‘may cross two metres by 2100’

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommends raising to two metres, instead of the existing one metre, the imaginary waterline demarcation for projects in the...

COP27: Pacific activists will push for loss and damage fund for grassroots communities

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Pacific climate change activists will be pushing for the establishment of a Loss and Damage funding facility at the UN's annual climate change summit...

Samoa out to write final chapter of rugby league’s Pacific Revolution

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Images of Tagaloa, the giant Samoan creation God show him balancing on two islands and beaming with a smile. The islands were stepping stones...

Australian deputy PM Marles refuses to admit trip to PNG is to deter its China relationship

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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has refused to admit his visit to Papua New Guinea is about deterring relationships with China amid its...

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MCC touts Pacific, Fiji partnerships as strategic alternative to China’s Belt and Road

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The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has highlighted its work in Fiji and the wider Pacific as part of a broader U.S strategy to strengthen...

Vanuatu Opposition demands Gov’t apology over failed Matthew and Hunter negotiations

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Indigenous leaders tell governments ‘no more tokenism’ before COP31

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