カテゴリー: Marshall Islands
Hilda Heine calls for investigation into Chinese couple’s alleged efforts to bribe officials to help set up tax havenA former president of the Marshall Islands has called for an investigation into an alleged plot by a Chinese couple to establish a mini…
Pacific country had recorded no community transmission of the virus until last week, and healthcare is struggling to copeAfter dodging the Covid-19 pandemic for two years, the Marshall Islands is grappling to control the spread of infections, which hav…
Absence of Kiribati from the meeting is ‘really devastating’ to the body’s long-term strategy, security expert saysGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastWhen Anthony Albanese touches down in Suva on Wednesday to attend his…
Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpowerSome Pacific island nations have been left walking a geopolitical tightrope in their response to the war in Ukraine, as …
Large parts of Pacific country’s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according to new projectionsProjected sea level rise would mean 40% of the buildings in the Marshall Islands’ capital of Majuro would be permanently floo…
Around 80% of global trade is transported across oceans on cargo vessels powered by fossil fuels, Pacific nations are calling for decisive global actionCasten Ned Nemra is minister of foreign affairs of the Marshall IslandsMany communities around the w…
The majority of the Pacific nation’s population won’t be immunised for another two years, government planning documents showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDespite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdo…
Pacific 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…
Conservationist on a remote Papua New Guinean island finds message from American girl thrown overboard more than 2,500km awayThis bottle was different. Glass, with its lid sealed tight, it contained a handful of rice grains and a few seashells. And a n…
Dozens of women from the Pacific island victims of brazen trafficking ring that operated for years Rolson Price still scans Facebook for her picture. He’s seen her occasionally, at the periphery of someone else’s photo, instantly recognisable.But he’s …
Abandoned vessel containing 649kg of drug washes up on a remote Pacific atoll after potentially years at seaPolice in the Marshall Islands have found the Pacific nation’s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atol…
Pacific 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…
With a 50th nation ratifying it, the treaty outlawing nuclear weapons for all countries will come into force in 90 daysNuclear weapons will soon be illegal. Just over 75 years since their devastation was first unleashed on the world, the global communi…
Displacement 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 …
Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writesMy country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in September 1991. But unless my fellow member states take act…