Pacific Beat

Canadian company, Nautilus Minerals, has terminated its State Equity Option Agreement for a deep sea mining venture with the PNG government and will now claim damages.

Opposition parties in Fiji have responded to the visit of the Pacific Islands Forum Ministerial Contact Group with cautious optimism.

A Pacific Islands arts centre in Sydney is attracting huge support from the various Pacific communities in the city.

Vanuatu's public prosecutor Kayleen Tavoa is still waiting to hear if her resignation has been accepted.

On Manus Islands eight people have been arrested after a weekend of protests at the Australian run detention and asylum seeker processing centre.

Reports of a dengue fever epidemic in Fiji cannot be confirmed or denied because of the country's media restrictions.

Fiji's Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is keeping up the pressure on the Australian government to scrap its travel restrictions on Fijian government officials, which he says amount to "economic sabotage".

Fiji's military regime is ramping up the pressure on Australia to lift travel restrictions on government officials that were enforced after the coup led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama eight years ago.

There are reports there's been a mass breakout at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea.

Australia's Department of Immigration has confirmed there has been a disturbance at the Government's asylum seeker processing centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.

Ten unaccompanied children have been sent to the Australian-run asylum seeker processing centre on Nauru.

The Asian Development Bank is set to make its biggest contribution yet to transport projects in the region.

The PNG Hunters have had a reality check two weeks out from their debut in the Queensland Cup, the second tier competition behind the NRL in Australia.

The President of Marshall Islands has made clear his concern with poor service in government offices.

In Cook Islands, a group of locals have launched a petition against the government's new project to upgrade the water network in Rarotonga.

In soccer, the OFC U-20 Women's championship kicks off in Auckland tomorrow.

It's now just over year since a tsunami swept through the Santa Cruz group in Solomon Islands causing widespread damage to an already fragile infrastructure.

A non-government organisation called 'Stop GMO Pacific' has just completed a tour of Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands to collect data on genetically modified seeds.

The US Secretary of State has delivered a keynote address in Indonesia on climate change, urging countries to pull together on a threat that he says is very real.