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Presence of Pal Ahluwalia deemed ‘prejudicial to peace’: a report by the vice-chancellor alleged widespread financial mismanagement at University of the South PacificFiji police have carried out a midnight raid at the home of the vice-chancellor of the…
Read MoreGlobal-Migrate accused of promoting access to travel document without the government’s authority, although advertisements ‘not unlawful in themselves’An international migration firm is being investigated for allegedly promoting access to the Vanuatu’s …
Read MorePacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the forum’s leadership and purposeIn the Pacific, it is all about the talanoa: the conversation and the consensus.For the 50 years of the Pacific Isl…
Read MoreEvacuations ordered in Fiji as Yasa strengthens into a category five system with winds of up to 270km/hTwin cyclones are bearing down on Pacific islands, with Fiji’s main island likely to be directly hit by a category five storm for the second time thi…
Read MoreFourteen eminent signatories urge Canberra to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050Pacific leaders have condemned Australia’s Paris climate target as “one of the weakest”, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Ky…
Read MoreProvince’s breakaway movement nominates exiled leader as interim president as conflict-ridden Indonesian region marks independence dayWest Papuan leaders have declared a provisional “government-in-waiting” of the contested Indonesian province, as the U…
Read MoreOptimism abounds as leaders from Fiji to Papua New Guinea welcome the new US president-electJoe Biden’s presidential ascension had not even been settled when Fiji’s forthright prime minister was already urging greater US action on climate change from t…
Read MorePacific nation was one of the last on Earth without a single confirmed Covid-19 infectionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOne of the last coronavirus-free sanctuaries in the world has been breached, with the US military impor…
Read MoreDisplacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established nowAustralia should establish a new “Pacific Access” visa category that could be used by Pacific islanders forced from their homes …
Read MoreMark Brown’s multiple ministries prompt opposition to suggest PM lacks confidence in his cabinetThe Cook Islands’ new prime minister has allocated himself 17 portfolios in the country’s government.Aside from the premiership, Mark Brown is the minister …
Read MoreOfficial development assistance declines to $4bn, boosted by $304m over two years to help region recoverAustralia will increase its aid budget to only the Pacific and Timor-Leste this year as aid and development spending to all other parts of the world…
Read MoreBryan Kramer takes extraordinary swipe at force for which he is responsible, saying it could take a generation to eradicate endemic corruptionPapua New Guinea’s police force is the most corrupt public agency in the country, engaged in drug-smuggling, g…
Read MorePapua New Guinean student Lesley Wengembo has painted campus assistant Mal Nagobi for Australia’s famous Archibald prizeAlongside Malachi Nagobi, progress across the august grounds of the National Art School in Sydney is constantly – happily – impeded….
Read MoreFlight carrying workers from Chinese state-owned Ramu nickel mine cancelled by pandemic controller over concerns about vaccine trialA planeload of Chinese mine workers have been barred from entering Papua New Guinea, over concerns they had been subject…
Read MoreImage criticised as emblematic of China’s rising influence in Pacific, but i-Kiribati say practice is part of traditional welcoming ceremony A photo reportedly showing the Chinese ambassador to Kiribati walking on peoples’ backs as part of an island we…
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