Story Archive
2025-01-31
The U.S. is the fifth largest bilateral development donor in the region, far behind arch rival China.
2025-01-30
Vanuatu’s parliament will sit in mid-February for formation of government and to pick a prime minister.
2025-01-30
King Tupou VI reasserts the monarch’s role in the affairs of state with the appointment of his son as a senior minister.
2025-01-28
Paris climate treaty exit, defunding WHO and foreign aid suspension strikes blow to US in Pacific as “trusted friend.”
2025-01-23
Eighteen Pacific leaders in 2018 declared climate change as their greatest single existential threat.
2025-01-22
Ancient “pig feast” asserts indigenous Melanesians’ ancestral land rights in face of government-backed agricultural programs.
2025-01-22
2,400-year-old earthworks revealed as predating stone moai statues of Rapa Nui and megalithic Nan Madol in Micronesia.
2025-01-20
Unofficial counting indicated most incumbent MPs have been reelected but with some high-profile departures.
2025-01-19
Violence in PNG continues unabated as the country prepares to mark its 50th anniversary of independence.
2025-01-14
A 17-month state of emergency fails to quell violence at one of PNG’s most important economic assets.
2025-01-13
A national election will go ahead this week despite a devastating earthquake in the capital Port Vila last month.
2025-01-10
Kim Jong Un’s claim the missile will “contain any rivals in the Pacific” has stoked fears over the U.S. military’s ability to defend Guam from attack.
2025-01-10
Vanuatu’s self-sabotaging political class has left the country struggling to deal with social and economic shocks of recent natural disasters.
2025-01-09
Tribal violence during the New Year highlights increasing lawlessness and lack of police resources.
2025-01-08
UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new defense infrastructure.
