カテゴリー: Solomon Islands
Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters demanding the prime minister step down, amid reports of lootingPolice in Solomon Islands have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of protesters, who allegedly burned down …
Survey of more than 6,000 people by Transparency International is the most comprehensive look at corruption in the region to dateOne in three people across the Pacific Islands region have paid a bribe when using a public service in the last year, while…
Asia Pacific Investment Development and its subcontractor have also allegedly failed to rehabilitate land affected by bauxite miningA mining operation in Solomon Islands owes millions in unpaid taxes and royalties, according to a former senior governme…
World Vision report says widespread loss of income and families having fewer meals are seriously affecting children’s healthSee all our coronavirus coverageThe loss of work and skyrocketing food prices, brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, could lea…
Surviving on oranges they’d packed, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected, they floated about 400km in the Solomon Sea before being rescuedTwo men from Solomon Islands who spent 29 days lost at sea after their GPS tracker stopped working h…
A proposal to mine 60% of Wagina for bauxite was met with outrage by locals and became a landmark case in Solomon IslandsRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereWhen a mining company arrived on Wagina nearly a decade ago with a proposal to mine 60%…
From a forest in Papua New Guinea to a floor in Sydney: how China is getting rich off Pacific timber
China is the major buyer of wood from Pacific nations like PNG and Solomon Islands, which are implicated in illegal or unsustainable loggingRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereAn illegally logged tree, felled in the diminishing forests of Papua…
Rennell Island, in Solomon Islands, has suffered the triple assault of extensive logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill from a carrier hired by a mining companyRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereThere is perhaps nowhere in the Pa…
China received more than half of all seafood, wood, and minerals exported from the region in 2019. Experts warn this is creating ‘enormous challenges for sustainable development’Read more of our Pacific Plunder series hereOne country dominates the Paci…
A man digging a hole for a new septic system found the second world war ordnance, which are part of a deadly legacy of the war in the PacificOne hundred and one unexploded second world war bombs have been discovered in a backyard of a home in Honiara, …
Government alleges bulk carrier discharged heavy fuel oil into the sea off Santa Cruz island A bulk carrier ship has deliberately dumped about 1,000 tonnes of oil into the sea off the coast of the Solomon Islands, government authorities have alleged.Th…
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…
Communications minister claims move is intended to address ‘abusive language’ but observers say it is linked to China’s influenceThe Solomon Islands government is preparing to ban Facebook – an attempt, it says, to limit “abusive language” and “charact…
New fibre-optic cables to Pacific islands have been cautiously welcomed amid warnings over harassment and violence linked to online platformsFrom the narrow bay of Sydney’s Tamarama Beach, a cable twice as thick as garden hose, carrying optic fibre th…
NGO workers mapping second world war bomb sites died when ordnance detonated in their home An Australian man and his British colleague working to map unexploded bombs have been killed in an explosion at their home in Honiara, the capital of Solomon Isl…