U-turn? Cook Islands set to retain gay sex ban
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In an apparent U-turn on plans to decriminalise homosexuality, lawmakers from the South Pacific Cook Islands are pushing to...
Category : Pacific
2019 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant: Papua New Guinea to play host
Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTA) is the official naming rights sponsor of the 2019 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant. Today they presented K250, 000...
MSG Meeting opens doors for PNG to learn from sister countries
The 7th Minister of Arts and Culture meeting under the Melanesian Spearhead Group convened in Kokopo yesterday, following on from Monday's 8th Council of Arts...
Solomons government says China’s island lease ‘unlawful’
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands government says a contract signed by one of its provinces to lease the entire island of Tulagi to a...
Country sectors meet for 3 days to learn about and how to access green climate fund
Funding restrictions have prevented the delivery of specific climate change mitigation and adaptation actions in the country. However, Papua New Guinea is rated the tenth...
Utilising Dynamic Agro Forestry Farming to Boost the Replanting of Coconuts in Samoa
As a company that produces coconut oil, Serendi Coco Samoa, has predicted that in 5 years’ time, the country won’t have any coconuts. This is...
Australian newspapers redact front pages to protest media curbs
Australia's biggest newspapers ran front pages on Monday made up to appear heavily redacted, in a protest against legislation that restricts press freedoms, a rare...
Samoa declares measles epidemic
Samoa’s government has declared the country is facing a measles epidemic after results from samples sent to Australia have confirmed as measles cases....
EU Committed to PNG and Pacific
The European Union is committed to ensuring that it remains relevant in the Pacific, and more especially in Papua New Guinea. Speaking to National EMTV...
Pacific leaders work towards supporting the Blue Pacific
Energy and Transport Ministers and officials from the Pacific were called to form an effective union by the Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Sailelei Malielegaoi,...