PACIFIC nations must move beyond “reactive” disaster finance and create systems for a timely, predictable response to rising climate and disaster risks.

MARSHALL Islands President Dr. Hilda C. Heine has made a state visit to Australia, the first by a Marshallese leader in more than three decades.

ADDRESSING one of the “most formidable challenges facing Pacific Island nations”—the urgent need for institutional and financial resilience against escalating natural catastrophes

FRENCH authorities have seized close to five tonnes of cocaine from a small boat and dumped the drugs at sea before allowing the crew and vessel to leave French Polynesia.

PALAU will decide by referendum whether to allow deportees from the United States to settle in the tiny North Pacific state.

SOLOMON Islands’ national carrier will introduce flights to Papua New Guinea, allowing connections to China.

ASIA Development Bank President Masato Kanda met with Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. this week as the bank scales up its support for small island developing states.

AN invitation from a distant warzone landed in Suva earlier this month. The United States, with Israel's endorsement, has asked Fiji to send troops to join a proposed International Stabilization Force in Gaza.