Posted
| UpdatedChiefs in Vanuatu are struggling with changing social attitudes such as what it's appropriate for women to wear in the village.
Topics: national-days, women, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedHoniara's National Referral Hospital has welcomed the donation of a machine that allows doctors to perform keyhole surgery.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedFor the third time this season the reigning champions Fiji have been beaten by South Africa in a World Rugby Sevens tournament final, going down by 19 points to 12 in Las Vegas.
Posted
| UpdatedProposed new bylaws affecting people living in traditional iTaukei villages in Fiji may be at odds with the country's Bill of Rights.
Posted
| UpdatedThe French and Australian foreign ministers have this week announced details of an enhanced cooperation deal.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, pacific, france, australia
Posted
| UpdatedWomen in PNG are increasingly working in roles that were once dominated by men but many employers have not kept up with the pace of change, particularly when it comes to workplace safety.
Topics: women, workplace, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG Hunters have made the perfect start to their Intrust Super Cup season with a 22-16 win over Central Queensland Capras in Rockhampton.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea, australia
Posted
| UpdatedAn economist specialising in Papua New Guinea says the International Monetary Fund's latest report on the health of the PNG economy shows glaring discrepancies between what the independent upmire says is happening and what the government says.
Topics: economic-trends, budget, government-and-politics, international-financial-institutions, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its El Nino outlook to watch status, meaning there's a 50 per cent chance that there will be an El NiƱo event this year.
Posted
| UpdatedThe Governor of Papua New Guinea's Hela province has appealed for Australian Federal Police to help end the lawlessness in the province, which he says has reached crisis point.
Topics: police, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedA group of Pacific nations has drawn the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council to what it says is the "grave situation" in West Papua.
Posted
| UpdatedThe Solomon Islands government has endorsed the concept of strata title for land and housing ownership as a way of tackling the housing problem, especially in the capital Honiara.
Topics: community-and-society, housing-industry, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedOne of the Tongan noble MPs who voted against the government in a vote of no confidence this week believes some MPs supported the government because they wanted to stay in power.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedA bizarre story surfaced in the Pacific earlier this year when a Russian monarchist tried to coax the Kiribati government into buying three of the country's islands to establish a revived Romanov empire.
Topics: pacific, russian-federation, kiribati
Posted
| UpdatedDrinking kava to relax and sometimes to resolve conflicts is a longstanding custom in much of the Pacific.
Topics: pacific, united-states, fiji, vanuatu
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