$60 million for regional fisheries
THE US will release USD 60 million to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency as part of a 10-year economic assistance agreement associated with the South Pacific Tuna
Digital trade challenges
PACIFIC island countries have gathered in Suva, Fiji, to strengthen their capacity to measure and respond to the opportunities and challenges of digital
Solomons widens Forum ban
SOLOMON Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has thrown 21 donor countries, including the United States and China, out of the region's top political
Pal to leave USP
UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific Vice-Chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia will leave on September
Ikale Tahi fly into NZ
TONGA’S national rugby team has set up camp in Auckland ahead of the Pacific Nations
Movers and Shakers
Ann Patricia Naisara has been appointed as the newest member of the Habitat for Humanity Fiji Board of Trustees. Naisara is a highly respected legal professional with extensive experience across corporate law,
The church in politics
THE Pacific is often caught between two global powers: China and the United States–Australia alliance.
Fijiana coach speaks of cup hopes
LESS than a month from the opening of the 2025 Rugby World Cup, Fiji and Samoa will represent the Pacific in the grandest occasion of international women’s
Eighty years after Hiroshima, Pacific calls for nuclear disarmament
EIGHTY years ago, on 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas, flying towards the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
A sun rises and blinds the people
BEFORE he was installed as Tui Nayau—overlord of Fiji’s eastern-most Lau Group of islands—Roko Tevita Kapaiwai Lutunauga Uluilakeba Mara appeared over the horizon.
Pacific police bands display talent
MORE than 100 Pacific musicians gathered in Port Moresby this week in a celebration of music and