OFC Champions League 2022 final: AS Vénus chase history as Auckland City seek landmark title
The OFC Champions League 2022 final takes place today Wednesday, 17 August with Tahiti’s AS Vénus looking to become their nation’s first ever champions...
Vanuatu Opposition ready to elect a new PM amidst Loughman boycott
Vanuatu Parliament was not able to topple Prime Minister, Bob Loughman today due to lack of the two third of the 52 members of...
Shocking figures reveal severity of the ocean crisis
New Greenpeace analysis shows that since governments began discussing a new Global Ocean Treaty two decades ago, nearly 120 marine species have become critically...
Conference opens to draft first-ever treaty on ocean’s biological diversity
The intergovernmental conference to draft the first-ever treaty on the ocean’s biological diversity opened its fifth and likely final session on Monday.
Amidst calls for...
UN member states meet in New York to hammer out high seas treaty
UN member states gather in New York to hammer out a long-awaited treaty that, if agreed, will govern the planet’s last, lawless wilderness: the...
Dismantling Government for personal interest unfair: Vanuatu PM
Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman, said he believes some of the Members of Parliament (MPs) who moved to the Opposition side were unhappy because...
New Vanuatu Government formation
Security measures at the Opposition’s Island Magic Resort camp on Efate was beefed up Monday after Members of Parliament (MPs) who signed the motion...
Vanuatu prime minister calls for dissolution of parliament
The prime minister of Vanuatu has called for a dissolution of parliament with over a-year-and-four-months still remaining in his four-year-tenure.
Bob Loughman, who was elected...
PNG Supreme Court to rule whether 11th Parliament sitting legal
Papua New Guineans have knocked out 35 Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 111-seat 10th Parliament in the just concluded General Election 2022 (GE22).
They...
Simon Stiell appointed new UNFCCC Executive Secretary
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Simon Stiell as the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat based in Bonn, Germany.
The...
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Pacific nations warn UN sea-level rise declaration falls short
Pacific nations have warned that the first United Nations Declaration on Sea Level Rise falls short of the legal protections and climate action needed...
Former NZ PM Clark criticises New Zealand for abstaining on UN pandemic declaration
New Zealand has abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly political declaration on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, citing concerns over national...
Fiji rights coalition questions legal authority for referendum date
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights (NGOCHR) has questioned the constitutional authority behind Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s announcement that Fiji’s national referendum will be...