Chinese strikes on airfields will stymie US military aircraft in the Indo-Pacific region if there is a conflict, a new study says, recommending that the…
Pacific island nations at the center of a strategic rivalry between the US and China that brought infrastructure and funding hope President-elect Donald Trump stays…
The Cook Islands has announced border checks in response to whooping cough cases in the wider region. It follows outbreaks being declared in Samoa and…
A new report from Australia's Lowy Institute highlights growing concerns about debt related development funding in the Pacific. The seventh edition of the Pacific Aid…
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te arrived in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu on December 4, as part of a trip aimed at shoring up international…
The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on December 2, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless…
Tuvalu purchased millions of dollars of property in Fiji from prominent Chinese Communist Party-allied businessman Zhao Fugang, just weeks after reporting by OCCRP and partners…
Taiwan's president Lai Ching-te will visit three Pacific allies at the end of this month. Presidential spokeswoman Karen Kuo confirmed Lai will visit the Marshall…
A new health report has emphasised that underfunding and a lack of healthcare workers are main challenges facing parts of the Pacific region. The Sustainability…
A UN Women report says the prevalence of reported physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence - taking place in the previous 12 months - is…
China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report found November 20, after charting a "resurgence" in Beijing-backed aid and…
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) has temporarily banned live poultry and hatching egg imports from Hawai'i. The CNMI Department of Lands and…
While Vanuatu and Fiji's first-ever foreign policy documents reveal their non-aligned positions, the papers give both countries credibility amid competition by major geopolitical powers, such…
New Caledonia's Progressist Union in Melanesia (UPM), one of the historic founding members of FLNKS (Kanak socialist National Liberation Front), has announced its official withdrawal…
The presidents of France's Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament have on November 13 ended a three-day "concertation and dialogue" visit in New Caledonia, during…
Tuvalu's Prime Minister Feleti Teo has added his voice to the calls for a more just climate finance system for small island states and the…
A foreign workers group is challenging why foreign workers who already hold valid work permits stamped in their passports, need to carry an additional visa…
The Kiribati government says it is deeply concerned about ongoing intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) testing in the Pacific Ocean. Last week, the US military launched…
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has returned from New Caledonia saying it is not a simple "black and white situation". Brown has just returned…
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reported a 2.8% annual inflation rate for Q3, marking the lowest in three-and-a-half years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics…
The Tuvalu government is trying to bolster anti-corruption measures through a 'Right to Information' framework. Transport, Energy, and Communications minister Simon Kofe said the framework…
Three Pacific Islands leaders on a fact-finding visit to New Caledonia heard divided views on the cause of deadly riots that erupted in May, as…
The digital revolution in the media has forced the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) only daily newspaper, the Saipan Tribune, to shut down its…
Voters in the US territory of Guam will be the country’s first to cast their choice for president on November 5 but it will be…
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders' troika, along with the Fiji's prime minister, touched down in New Caledonia on October 27 for a fact-finding mission…
