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Pacific Water Ministers Meeting Concludes with Strong Regional Commitments
Wednesday 27 August 2025, Honiara – The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded yesterday in Honiara, with ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories committing to urgent action to strengthen water and...
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Pacific news in brief for 28 July
Test for leptospirosis in laboratory, conceptual image. Photo: DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA/FCA/Science Photo Libraray via AFP American Samoa - health American Samoa's Department of Health is warning about the risk of leptospirosis after...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 22 – August 28, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Owner: East-West Center & University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Te Ipukarea Society speaks out at regional United Nations environment meeting
Alanna Smith, middle, director of Te Ipukarea Society, attended the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Major Groups and Stakeholders Meeting held in Fiji. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Fiji/25082925 This past week Alanna Smith,...
Owner: Liz Woods & John Woods
Grist for the mill: the slow death of New Zealand’s industry towns
On June 30, 2025, paper machine 6 at Kinleith Mill in Tokoroa rolled its final reel of paper, marking the end of 70 years of manufacturing and the loss of more than 150 jobs. Anna Rankin was there to speak to the workers who leave behind decades...
Owner: Duncan Grieve
The World’s 50 Most Beautiful Villages 2025, According To Travel Experts
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Cinque Terre, Italy getty Swans glide across Lake Hallstatt, medieval watchtowers rise over Rothenburg’s cobbled lanes, and thunderous waterfalls crash into the Atlantic—2025’s most beautiful villages are quietly spellbinding. To help navigate...
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Thomas Wynne: We repopulated, not depopulated’
When our parents and grandparents left the shores of ‘Avaiki Nui, they carried more than raurau or suitcases. They carried their moemoea – dreams of more, for the generations to come.- writes Thomas Wynne. Leaving the security of home on vaka or...
Owner: Liz Woods & John Woods
Operation Island Chief reinforces Pacific unity against illegal fishing
HONIARA (FFA)—The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has concluded Operation Island Chief 2025 (OPIC25), part of its ongoing programme of surveillance and monitoring operations to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing...
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EXPERT REACTION: Dengue in the Pacific region
What is the immediate threat posed by dengue in the Pacific region, and how is this changing? "1. Increasing morbidity due to escalating dengue outbreaks reported across the Pacific region with circulation of multiple serotypes. "Dengue is...
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Large seabed mineral reserves are within 1,000 mile radius of Am Samoa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The total monetary value of seabed critical minerals in the South Pacific is estimated to be around US$20 trillion. This value includes vast reserves of cobalt, nickel, copper, manganese, and rare earth elements found...
Owner: Annesley Family
Our voyage to Statehood, 60 years on: understanding the nature and practice of free-association as we reflect on our development journey
Prime Minister Mark Brown. SUPPLIED. This year, the Cook Islands marks 60 years of self-governance, an historic milestone in our voyage to statehood, by Mark Brown, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. In 1965, our people chose to shape our own...
Owner: Liz Woods & John Woods
Te Ipukarea Society: Tahiti petrels found nesting in the Takuvaine Valley
A motion-sensor camera installed in the upper Takuvaine Valley recorded for the first time ever in the Cook Islands an active Tahiti petrel burrow. 25070301/25070302/25070303 A two-year seabird monitoring programme began in March earlier on this...
Owner: Liz Woods & John Woods
Daily on Energy: A deep sea mining pitch, green finance group in doubt, and Roadless Rule rollback
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Wednesday, readers! And just when you thought you had a few more days without news from the Hill, today’s edition of Daily on Energy offers a preview to an ocean minerals hearing scheduled for early...
Owner: Philip Anschutz
Cook Strait ferries detoured, warnings to boaties as first tsunami currents reach NZ
This video grab from a drone handout footage released by Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on 30 July shows the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia's northern Kuril islands. Photo: AFP / Geophysical...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Cook Strait ferries detoured, warnings to boaties after quake
This video grab from a drone handout footage released by Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on 30 July shows the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia's northern Kuril islands. Photo: AFP / Geophysical...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Marianas brace for wet weather
Cook Islander Helena Keenan-Williams is calling for greater transparency and genuine consultation over the government’s controversial seabed mining plans. Speaking from Sydney following a last-minute public meeting with Prime Minister Mark Brown,...
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UPSC Key: Fiji-India relationship, Tourism sector and Salwa Judum
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Mains Examination: General Studies-II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests Story continues...
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The solution to high shipping costs is not radical or untested – it is called a freight subsidy
By Carl Parslow WE have all seen the headline: Style Group, one of Jersey’s oldest and most established construction firms, collapsed on 15 August 2025 with immediate effect. The group, which includes AC Mauger and other subsidiaries, joins a...
Owner: James Filleul
China irks NZ as its influence spreads in the South Pacific
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
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World News | China Irks NZ as Its Influence Spreads in the South Pacific
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
Owner: Aditya Pittie