PNG Governor General to seek advice on election date change
Papua New Guinea Governor General Sir Bob Dadae is expected to announce if the 2022 National General Election will proceed as scheduled or deferred...
New Zealand commits to climate financing
The New Zealand government has increased its climate finance to a billion dollars over the next four years, with the Pacific, including Fiji, receiving...
10 percent of Fiji’s debt owed to disasters: Economy Minister
Fijian Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says some ten percent of Fiji’s debt burden is owed to climate disasters alone.
While speaking at the United...
FSM submits additional continental shelf claim in the North of Yap area
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)last Friday, filed with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf a claim of an...
China military expert says Scott Morrison’s red line is ‘ridiculous’
A former senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army has laughed off suggestions that Beijing takes Australia’s concerns about its new pact with the...
New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration
The peopling of the Pacific is one of the most significant migrations in human history. And now an archaeological discovery on a small island...
French Polynesian mayors support safeguarding South Pacific Ocean and tradition
French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch recently committed to conserving 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of the ocean by creating a new large-scale...
Labor pledges more foreign aid to Pacific with plan ‘to restore Australia’s place as first partner of choice’
Labor will vow to increase foreign aid to Pacific island countries and ramp up patrols to fight illegal fishing, as it makes an election...
Japan sends senior official to Solomon Islands over China security pact
Japan dispatched a senior official to the Solomon Islands on Monday amid concern that a recently concluded security pact between the southwest Pacific nation...
Vanuatu PM call for Russia and Ukraine to return to negotiating table
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has called on the governments of Russia and Ukraine to return to the negotiation table, as a peaceful approach...
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Pacific financial system under threat as banking links shrink, Forum report warns
The Pacific’s access to global finance is under growing strain, with a new Pacific Islands Forum report warning that the steady loss of correspondent...
Forum SG Waqa pushes truth and accountability on nuclear legacy
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Baron Waqa says remembrance of nuclear testing in the Pacific must drive action, as the region continues to deal...
Hidden archaeological landscapes discovered in Fiji through Moana data service’s LiDAR technology
By Moana Data Services/Kahuto Pacific
New high-resolution airborne LiDAR data from the Moana Data Service has revealed a previously hidden landscape of earthworks across parts...