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Creative New Zealand has just announced a new national touring initiative. Nearly two million dollars will be allocated to an agency to develop and manage medium-sized tours of theatre, dance and… Audio

Kava growers around the Pacific are hoping the industry can come back to life, following the overturning of a 12 year ban on kava. Audio

A United Kingdom research centre is refuting claims by the Papua New Guinea police that a Paga Hill community was resettled peacefully. Audio

An NGO in Papua New Guinea says the proposal for the world's first deep sea mining project is comparable with Pacific nuclear testing and people are feeling like experimental guinea pigs. Audio

A Jakarta newspaper report says the recent decision by Indonesia to axe New Zealand's planned police training programme in Indonesia's Papua region stems from suspicions over hidden motives. Audio

Kava producers and growers have won a victory in a European court over the ban on the traditional herb which has cost the region hundreds of millions of a dollars in the last decade. Audio

The WWF in New Caledonia says the conditions given to the Vale nickel processing plant on its re-opening are not enough to protect the environment. Audio

Tuvalu signs on for deal that promises high speed internet to reach all islands. Audio

United Kingdom research centre to ask UN to step in over Paga Hill removal case. Audio

One of five opposition MPs suspended from Nauru's parliament says they have now been stripped of their entitlements, offices and salaries for speaking out against the current regime. Audio

Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into the alleged burning of up to 200 homes in the Papua New Guinea gold mining town of Porgera. Audio

The Tongan government says it is overhauling its policies in a bid to deal with what it says is the biggest killer in the region - obesity. Audio

Save the Children in Solomon Islands says there's an outbreak of leprosy affecting people in Honiara's evacuation centres. Audio

The Fijian sporting community is in mourning after athletics representative Roy Ravana Junior was killed in a shooting incident in the United States. Audio

Save the Children in Solomon Islands says the struggle to contain the rotavirus outbreak has been compounded by recent confirmation of 24 cases of leprosy diagnosed in people living in temporary… Audio

Training conducted by the German agency for International Cooperation to prepapre for a forest inventory on Santo, Vanuatu's biggest island. Audio

A human rights advisor at Papua New Guinea's United Nations Aids agency says the country is struggling to make any progress on achieving the Millenium Development goal of reducing HIV. Audio

A new state of the art eye care centre is to be built in Honiara with the assistance of the New Zealand aid programme. Audio

Aid donated for the reconstruction of schools in cyclone-damaged Ha'apai, Tonga. Audio

The Marshall Islands Foreign Minister, Tony de Brum, has told a United Nations climate change meeting in Germany that rising sea levels have exposed the skeletal remains of World War Two soliders from… Audio

Push for diversification in PNG agriculture in the face of challenges such as the cocoa pod borer crisis. Audio

Critics say the Prime Minister of New Zealand's decision to skip Pacifc Islands Forum will leave a bad impression with our Pacific neighbours. Audio

The Chief Trade Advisor to the Pacific Islands countries says they could be in a position to conclude the PACER PLUS trade deal with Australia and New Zealand by the end of next year. Audio

Vodafone Fiji says a new report by its parent company shows it is not conducting any illegal surveillance. Audio

An academic says the high rate of obesity in the Pacific is a crisis and should be treated by governments as a highly-dangerous epidemic. Audio