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Two bodies have been recovered in remote makeshift village of alluvial gold miners but heavy rain hampers efforts to look for othersAt least 12 people are feared dead after a landslide engulfed a makeshift village of alluvial gold miners in Papua New G…
Read MoreCountry’s expected ascension to human rights council presidency is being challenged by a China-backed bid by BahrainFor a small country in the South Pacific that joined the UN’s powerful human rights council for the first time in 2019, Fiji has made gi…
Read MoreBaby among those killed when category-five storm hit, destroying hundreds of buildings A three-month-old baby was one of two people killed when category-five Cyclone Yasa tore through Fiji’s second-largest island Vanua Levu on Thursday night. The cyclo…
Read MorePeople told to move to higher ground as 16-metre waves and winds of up to 350km/h expectedFiji imposed a nationwide curfew Thursday after urging people near the coast to move to higher ground as the island nation prepared for a major cyclone to hit.Cy…
Read MoreAbandoned 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…
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 MoreThe archipelago nation, whose close relationship with Taipei has angered Beijing previously, stops boat alleged to have been harvesting sea cucumber in its watersA Chinese fishing vessel and its 28 crew have been detained in Palau, authorities said, cr…
Read MoreResidents will be able to travel between the two countries without isolating from early next yearNew Zealand and the Cook Islands have agreed to a travel arrangement, the leaders of the two countries have announced, while Australians must wait a while …
Read MorePNG prime minister James Marape faces serious challenge to his rule after chief justice rules in favour of opposition call for parliament to resumePapua New Guinea politics has descended into fresh chaos, with the supreme court throwing out the country…
Read MoreSt John Ambulance warns it may be forced to close down over Christmas or sell some of its fleetPapua New Guinea’s main ambulance service – St John Ambulance – has been allocated no money in the government’s budget for 2021.St John Ambulance runs a flee…
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 MoreA repatriation flight has brought the first case to the Pacific archipelago, which has successfully kept the virus from its shores for 11 monthsSamoa has confirmed its first case of coronavirus – a case imported from Australia – after nearly 11 months …
Read MoreAiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, known as ‘A-to-Z’ because of his huge range of government portfolios, faces allegations he was involved in fatal 1987 blastOn Tuesday, one of Fiji’s most powerful men, attorney general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, was awarded the country’s…
Read MoreIsolated from the rest of the planet since February, group learned about virus sweeping the globe but have escaped its impact – until nowIn February, just as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold, four people set sail for one of the most remote p…
Read MoreJames Marape faces chaos amid bitter fighting over who can command a majority in a parliament now suspended until AprilThe bitter arm-wrestle for control of Papua New Guinea’s government has descended into chaos with a half-full parliament passing a bu…
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