South Pacific
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Surge in passport sales delivers Vanuatu a record budget surplus
Economy devastated by Covid shutdowns and a destructive cyclone, but citizenships-for-sale are keeping the cou…
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The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us | Andrew Paris
As researchers, we have been shocked to find the most remote depths of the Pacific Ocean polluted by our plast…
- Asia Pacific, Cook Islands, Coronavirus outbreak, Fiji, Pacific islands, Pacific Islands Forum, South Pacific, Tonga, Vanuatu, World news
Pacific states face instability, hunger and slow road to Covid recovery: Dame Meg Taylor
While the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic has so far spared the Pacific, its economies are in free-fall, the re…
- Guam, Indigenous peoples, Japan, Pacific islands, South Pacific, United Nations, US military, World news
‘Our children’s lives on the line’: the ongoing battle for Guam
America’s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea be…
- Agriculture, Asia Pacific, Migration, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, World news
Without seasonal workers, Australia may face a hungry summer | Michael Rose
With not enough workers to pick the upcoming harvest, Australia faces potential food shortages, and its farmer…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus outbreak, Infectious diseases, Malaria, Microbiology, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific, Tuberculosis, World news
Pacific nations face wider health crisis as systems focus on stopping Covid-19
As cases mount in Papua New Guinea, experts warn already fragile services will not be able to combat other dis…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus outbreak, Infectious diseases, Marshall Islands, Pacific islands, South Pacific, US news, World news
Pacific Islanders in US hospitalised with Covid-19 at up to 10 times the rate of other groups
Many islanders in America live in large families and tight-knit communities, and work in frontline service ind…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Bougainville, Coronavirus outbreak, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Pacific islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, Tonga, US news, Vanuatu, West Papua, World news
Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection li…
- Asia Pacific, Commonwealth of Nations, Coronavirus outbreak, New Zealand, Pacific islands, South Pacific, World news
Coin toss for a parliament seat and a lawn bowls champion premier: Niue’s Covid election
New premier of the Pacific nation, Dalton Tagelagi, seeks to reopen island and ‘a return to the good old happy…
- Asia Pacific, Bougainville, Cook Islands, Coronavirus outbreak, Fiji, Guam, Infectious diseases, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, Tonga, Vanuatu, West Papua, World news
Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing
Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsSign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific bri…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Coronavirus outbreak, Health, Infectious diseases, New Zealand, Pacific islands, South Pacific, World news
Pacific countries plead for inclusion in ‘trans-Tasman bubble’ as travel restrictions ease
Many Pacific nations are Covid-free but have been devastated by the economic impacts of the virusCoronavirus –…
- Asia Pacific, Cyclone Harold, Natural disasters and extreme weather, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
The Vanuatu island in the eye of the storm
Pentecost Island, devastated by Cyclone Harold in April, has been left a silent shadow of its former self. But…
- Asia Pacific, Fiji, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Pacific islands, Press freedom, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Fijian military leader defends government’s right to ‘stifle’ press during Covid crisis
Concerns have also been raised about Vanuatu, where it is illegal to publish stories on coronavirus without go…
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Vanuatu elects new prime minister as country reels from devastating cyclone
Bob Loughman, an MP from the island of Tanna, will become the next prime minister of the south Pacific nationV…
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Coronavirus fears and controversial passport sales: Vanuatu’s election explained
A country with fractured and shifting political alliances, Vanuatu heads to the polls at a crucial moment in i…