Posted
| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's only cancer treatment centre at Angau Hospital in Lae has been caught in the middle of a media storm, with many taking to Facebook to complain that there is not enough funding for equipment and drugs to treat the patients there.
Topics: cancer, healthcare-facilities, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedFiji's shadow minister for defence is calling on Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho to apologise on behalf of the force for the death of an 18-year-old youth in police custody.
Posted
| UpdatedIt's a problem that people worldwide are scrambling to address - how to stop the widespread death of coral reefs due to climate change and pollution.
Topics: oceans-and-reefs, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedA Fiji community NGO says people living in squatter settlements in Fiji would like their status to be recognised so they can make their lives better.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG-focused energy company Oil Search is back in profit this year, following a poor result in 2015.
Topics: oil-and-gas, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedPapua New Guinea has lost its vote in the United Nations General Assembly because it failed to pay its annual contributions, highlighting recent problems with the government's payment of bills.
Topics: pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe cash-strapped Papua New Guinea Correctional Services department say although they are using a standby generator to power their headquarters after the electricity was cut off, they have addressed the food shortage at a jail in the Western Highlands.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea government is continuing its plan to merge three state-owned communication companies despite a protest by telecommunication workers.
Topics: telecommunications, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedIt's confirmed, Pacific rivals Vanuatu and Fiji will go head to head tomorrow in the final round of the World Cricket League qualifier in Australia, with the winner taking the prize of promotion to World Cricket League Division Five.
Posted
| UpdatedThe 2017 Super Rugby season has kicked off in Melbourne with the Rebels thrashed 56-18 by the Auckland Blues.
Topics: super-rugby, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedAn opposition party leader in Fiji is convinced that a Fiji TV reporter has been moved away from reporting on politics due to pressure from above.
Topics: media, political-parties, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedFormer Papua New Guinea defence force commander, General Jerry Singirok, says the country is in danger of becoming a failed state if the problem of gun-related violence is not brought under control.
Topics: community-and-society, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedIn Fiji several men have been arrested after allegedly breaking into the home of the country's founding father, the late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, and stealing more than 40 ceremonial whales teeth.
Topics: burglary, indigenous-other-peoples, pacific, fiji
Posted
| UpdatedAmerican Samoa's longest serving representative in the US Congress, Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, has died.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, pacific, american-samoa
Posted
| UpdatedThe CEO of the Angau Hospital in Lae is calling on Papua New Guineans to change the way they think about cancer amid ongoing public outcry about the conditions at the country's only treatment centre.
Topics: cancer, health-policy, social-media, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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