Stories by Giff Johnson

Pacific Islands Forum secretary general is encouraging the dozens of Pacific representatives at COP28 to remain optimistic that a good result is achievable from the two-week summit.

The Marshall Islands domestic election result shows that as many as one-third of all members of parliament are likely to change when the body is sworn in during early January.

Marshall Islanders go to the polls on 20 November, following what may have been the quietest election campaign in the 44-years of constitutional government.

Despite telling the Marshall islands there is no money for nuclear test compensation, Washington is helping people in Guam affected by the nuclear legacy.

The Marshall Islands fisheries authority has received an international award recognising its work to prevent illegal fishing.

Analysis - The Marshall Islands has finally signed off on its US Compact ending a seven-month holdout on the security and funding agreement with Washington.

The Marshall Islands is only the second country in the world to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of "clean water for all."

The United States Congress is demanding answers from the Interior Department about the status of a $US70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders displaced by American nuclear weapons testing.

Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for influence in the region have agreed 20-year extensions of funding arrangements.

The Marshall Islands is making use of a "maritime domain awareness platform" developed by a New Zealand company to identify suspected illegal fishing activity in the western Pacific.

The Marshall Islands government has been forced into making alternative air delivery options for everything from mail and medicines to fresh tuna and equipment for essential public services.

The European Union has placed the Marshall Islands on its tax haven blacklist, surprising government officials in Majuro.

Twenty-two fishermen and a fisheries observer escaped with only the clothes they were wearing when a purse seine vessel sank off the Marshall Islands.

The capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, will host the first in-person annual meeting of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) since 2019 when the fisheries organisation convenes on Monday.

Nauru Airlines has announced it is bumping up its service to weekly starting the first week of January.

Two naturalised Marshallese citizens have plead guilty to conspiring to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a multi-year scheme to bribe Marshall Islands government…

The Marshall Islands had its highest-ever sustained out-migration over the past five years, according to a statistical report released earlier this week.

The Marshall Islands ended two years of being at the centre of controversy over the possible break up of the Pacific's premier regional organisation when its parliament adopted resolutions reaffirming…

Preliminary data released by the Marshall Islands government from its late 2021 national census indicates rampant poverty in the north Pacific nation.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in the Marshall Islands this week to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Nauru Airlines is expected this month to resume air service linking Brisbane with islands in the central and north Pacific.

The Marshall Islands has pulled the plug on talks with the US aimed at finalising aspects of the Compact of Free Association, under which Washington provides its former colony with aid and assistance. Audio

The Marshall Islands has been praised by a United States Health and Human Services official for a "superb" response to Covid.

The Marshall Islands has lifted its state of health disaster after three years, and opened its borders to normal travel.

A former Marshall Islands President wants to know what the government will do about officials involved in a bribery scandal.