Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG government has handed down its budget amid tough economic and financial conditions.
Topics: budget, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's opposition leader has accuse the police of turning Port Moresby into a virtual police state.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, political-parties, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia is providing more than ten million dollars to support the work of women's organisations in Fiji.
Topics: women, domestic-violence, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedOnly 39 per cent of adult Samoans have a bank account, and efforts are underway to change that.
Topics: banking, money-and-monetary-policy, consumer-protection, regulation, small-business, pacific, samoa
Posted
| UpdatedVanuatu's National Council of Women is calling on the Prime Minister, Sato Kilman and the acting leader of the opposition, Ham Lini to bring the people back to order due to the current instability and threat to democracy.
Topics: corruption, government-and-politics, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedA new energy has been injected into some of the region's most crucial ministerial meetings, with the Pacific Trade Ministers the latest to feel the winds of change.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, foreign-affairs, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedThe El Nino-driven drought in Vanuatu is compounding the destruction caused by Cyclone Pam in March.
Topics: drought, relief-and-aid-organisations, agricultural-crops, disasters-and-accidents, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's Opposition leader Bill Shorten and his deputy Tanya Plibersek have arrived in the Marshall Islands as they continue their four-day tour of the Pacific, which is focusing on climate change.
Topics: foreign-affairs, climate-change, world-politics, pacific, marshall-islands, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThousands of text messages are being sent to people right across Vanuatu, in an attempt to help them better prepare for the drought.
Topics: drought, telecommunications, disasters-and-accidents, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedTens of thousands of well-dressed racegoers are preparing to head to Flemington for the race that stops a nation - the Melbourne Cup.
Topics: horse-racing, gambling, pacific, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThere are big plans underway at the cash-strapped Fiji Football Association to help the body generate around US$5 million over the next 10 years.
Topics: sport, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedVanuatu police say they have received official complaints from one of the jailed MPs against the current opposition leader Joe Natuman.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedInhabitants of a small by heavily populated island in a remote part of Solomon Islands are appealing for a desalination plant after normal water supplies have dried up or turned brackish.
Topics: water, water-management, water-supply, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedFiji's economically vital sugar industry could be headed for collapse.
Topics: sugar, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedPacific Island nations are calling on global fishing powers to join them in taking decisive action to protect one of the world's few remaining unmanaged tuna stocks.
Topics: illegal-fishing, fishing-aquaculture, pacific
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