10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (195+ words) A team from the IUCN Oceania Regional Office spent 13 days in Simbu Province from visiting three community-based projects and working with local organisations on implementation, monitoring and long-term sustainability. The team visited KGWan Eco Habitat Inc., Dika Suna Nature Conservation…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (396+ words) FIJI’S Justice Minister and Acting Attorney General Siromi Turaga says criminal networks are exploiting the region’s borders, financial systems and institutions—and warns fragmented national responses are no longer enough. Opening the Pacific Exchange on Transnational Organised Crime and Correction…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (353+ words) EVERY year on September 21, we commemorate the International Day of Peace. It is a day that invites us to reflect on what peace means in an increasingly complex, polarised, and uncertain world. Too often, peace is understood simply as the…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (872+ words) Islands Business An Ocean of Peace must begin with dignity PEACE in the Pacific cannot be declared from above and delivered to communities as policy language. It must be built from the ground of dignity, memory, land, ocean, women’s work,…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (550+ words) Papua New Guinea’s Department of Education launched the Resilient School Infrastructure Policy and manual, a new national framework designed to ensure schools across the country are safe, inclusive and able to withstand natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, cyclones and…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (511+ words) FIJI is reporting a marked rise in influenza-like illnesses and acute respiratory infections in the past three weeks, with laboratory testing confirming increased positivity for seasonal influenza, the Ministry of Health and Medical Services said. “An increase in influenza like…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1396+ words) FOR the people of Mā ‘ohi Nui (French Polynesia), the ocean is a source of life, with an Exclusive Economic Zone covering nearly 5 million square kilometres of ocean around the nation’s five archipelagos. This week, President of French Polynesia Moetai…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (816+ words) THE Fiji Hotel and Tourism Association has rejected the government’s characterisation of the industry’s opposition to the Tourism Services Tax, saying the response failed to address the impact on visitors. Government claimed the industry had employed delaying tactics and there…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (637+ words) TONGAN artist and University of Auckland alumnus Dr Sione Faletau has been appointed a permanent lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts. It’s a full-circle return for a Pacific scholar whose work centres on culture, identity and Indigenous ways…...