Posted
| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, has confirmed his government is pulling out of the PACER PLUS talks with Australia and New Zealand to focus on its trade relationship with other Melanesian countries.
Topics: trade, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThree of the 14 politicians who were jailed for corruption in Vanuatu in 2015 could be out of prison as early as next month.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, vanuatu
Posted
| UpdatedNot for the first time the road to the full establishment of Palau's vast, groundbreaking, national marine sanctuary is proving to be a bumpy one, as politicians argue over how to replace the money that will be lost when commercial fishing is banned in the country's waters.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, palau
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG Hunters are still unbeaten and level on points with Townsville Blackhawks and Wynnum Manly Seagulls at the top of the Intrust Super Cup ladder after the narrowest of wins over Souths Logan Magpies in Brisbane.
Topics: rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea public have embraced the country's first ever World Surf League competition, which continues until March 25th at Tupira on the Madang coast.
Topics: surfing, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedA hip-hop artist in Papua New Guinea has become a social media sensation following the release of his recent 'Bootylicious' music video.
Topics: music, feminism, women, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedPapua New Guinea has launched a vaccination program to prevent cervical cancer.
Topics: cervical-and-vulval-cancers, vaccines-and-immunity, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe emergence of the borer beetle in two of Papua New Guinea's highlands provinces has the potential to devastate the country's coffee industry, jeopardising the main cash crop there.
Topics: agricultural-crops, tea-coffee, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedTongan Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, is defending his call for the national Broadcasting Commission to be closed down or sold off.
Topics: government-and-politics, media, journalism, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedThe emergence of the borer beetle in two of Papua New Guinea's highlands provinces has the potential to devastate the country's coffee industry, jeopardising the main cash crop there.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, pacific, new-caledonia
Posted
| UpdatedThere are renewed calls for the Papua New Guinea currency, the kina, to be devalued by up to 20 per cent.
Topics: currency, money-and-monetary-policy, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedThe General Hospital in Port Moresby has taken delivery of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, the first of its kind in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: health, science-and-technology, pacific, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedExasperated residents in Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, have taken to social media to organise a cleanup at the National Referral Hospital where the frontage has been overwhelmed with rubbish and weeds.
Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, pacific, solomon-islands
Posted
| UpdatedThe Fiji Warriors head into the final round of the World Rugby Pacific Challenge tomorrow in pole position to retain their title.
Topics: sport, rugby-union, pacific
Posted
| UpdatedThe PNG Hunters are on the road again this weekend as they take on Souths Logan Magpies in round three of the Intrust Super Cup.
Topics: rugby-league, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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