Chinese walkout
By Islands Business correspondent Nic Maclellan, at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru China’s representative to today’s partner dialogue at the Pacific Islands Forum stormed out of the meeting, after
China-Taiwan spat at Forum
By Islands Business correspondent Nic Maclellan, at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru It’s not only journalists who face visa problems getting into Nauru. China’s official delegation had trouble obtaining
Forum to consider Biketawa Plus security declaration
BY Islands Business correspondent Nic Maclellan at the Pacific Islands Forum, Nauru Pacific leaders will consider a new Biketawa Plus declaration on regional security, as they gather in Nauru for the 49th Pacific
Migration not the answer to rising sea levels
CLOSE to a year after COP23 in Bonn and the Pacific-led talks on climate change, atoll communities are no closer to a solution to the danger posed by rising sea levels. According to the United States Geological Survey
NZDF Joins search for missing Tuvaluan fisherman
By Nanise Volau A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft is searching for a Tuvalu man who failed to return home from a fishing trip on Monday evening. The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) was notified by the
A growing to-do list for Manu Tupou-Roosen beneath that tropical exterior is a steely resolve to get the work done and an attitude that no challenge is unsurmountable
WE wish the Director-General of the Forum Fisheries Agency, Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, every success in the challenging task ahead. With years of experience in the agency and the intense talks around fisheries each year, she
Tuvalu seeks declaration on resource ownership
AS the sun sets over Tuvalu, children shriek in the lagoon of the main atoll – Funafuti. This is the way life has been in the Pacific for as long as people can remember. But sea levels in the lagoon are rising and
Usp: lamenting what we have lost!
Congratulations to the University of the South Pacific on its 50th anniversary. Everyone who has been to USP should be proud of it.The University stands out as the mantle for regional cooperation that has truly brought
We Say – Global Climate Finance
Relying on the much-touted global climate finance mechanisms provided for under the Global Environment Fund or the Green Climate Fund is like waiting for a rainstorm in a drought stricken land. One knows rain is coming
Talks on new TV station in Tonga
By: Netani Rika MOVES are afoot in Tonga to set up a commercial television company. Papua New Guinea’s Click TV has started negotiations to purchase a licence to operate in the kingdom. Click TV’s Richard
3800 new Fiji citizens
By Anish Chand A total of three thousand 815 foreign nationals were granted Fiji citizenship for three and a half years between October 2014 and February 2018. Out of this, Australians topped the list as the most number
