Pacific News Search
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Kiwi teenager dies in sleep while on vacation in the Cook Islands
The 15-year-old's family is now preparing to repatriate his body back to their home in Hastings, but they have only managed to fund half the amount needed for repatriation.
Updated at 11:54 am on 8 May 2024
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Solomon Islands – an incumbent’s defeat and resurrection
Opinion - Most countries in the Oceania region recognise Beijing and welcome Chinese aid, but no other Pacific state has become so dependent on China as Solomon Islands.
Updated at 10:48 am on 8 May 2024
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Netball: Young Star burns bright for her Fiji family
Straight out of school, Fijian defender Lili Tokaduadua is making a statement for the Stars in NZ's elite netball league - and is grateful for the famous sporting family who took her in.
Updated at 10:45 am on 8 May 2024
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NZ helps monitor for fishy business in Fiji's exclusive economic zone
The six-week deployment of a Royal New Zealand Navy contingent was to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Updated at 10:12 am on 8 May 2024
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Pacific news in brief for May 8
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a medicine shortage in a Papua New Guinea health centre.
Updated at 10:11 am on 8 May 2024
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OFC Champions League: Hekari recruit two Brazillians, as Oceania teams ready to go
Papua New Guinea football champions Hekari United have taken on two Brazilian players for the OFC Men's Champions League in Tahiti, which kicks off on Saturday.
Updated at 6:24 pm on 7 May 2024
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Bougainville ire raised over delayed Joint Supervisory Body meeting
Bougainville is furious that it is being blamed for another deferral of a meeting of the Joint Supervisory Body, which oversees its relationship with Papua New Guinea.
Updated at 4:18 pm on 7 May 2024
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Strike action: Workers take on Fiji Water, demand better pay
A group of workers for Fiji Water have gone on strike at the US-owned company's water bottling plant in Yaqara on the main island Viti Levu on Tuesday.
Updated at 2:48 pm on 7 May 2024
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Pacific news in brief for May 7
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a new non-stop flight service between Australia and Palau being launched.
Updated at 1:12 pm on 7 May 2024
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Q and A: ANU's Stephen Howes on Australia's Pacific Engagement Visa quotas
Australian National University's Development Policy Centre head, Stephen Howes, says Papua New Guinea has emerged as a big winner for the program.
Updated at 11:13 am on 7 May 2024
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Fewer cyclones than predicted in El Nino summer - NIWA
The El Niño weather pattern was supposed to result in a high number of cyclones in the South Pacific, but there were only seven.
Updated at 11:10 am on 7 May 2024
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Cancer's place in US Pasifika deaths revealed
Death rates for Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders in the US are 30 percent higher for breast cancer and 75 percent higher for liver cancer.
Updated at 10:07 am on 7 May 2024
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$17 million to replace lead pipes in Northern Marianas
The US Environmental Protection Agency says lead exposure disproportionately affects communities of colour and low-income communities.
Updated at 10:07 am on 7 May 2024
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Carmel Sepuloni believed to be contestant on new season's Celebrity Treasure Island
Former deputy prime minister and senior Labour MP Carmel Sepuloni is understood to be one of the contestants on the new season of Celebrity Treasure Island.
Updated at 10:05 am on 7 May 2024
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Fiji govt told to address 'huge gap in the system' to tackle human trafficking
A human rights lawyer says the Fijian government has neglected the issue of human trafficking and is urging the government to tackle the issue with the same intent as it does drug trafficking.
Updated at 6:18 pm on 6 May 2024
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Pacific news in brief for May 6
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the World Bank urging Papua New Guinea to address a "human capital crisis" and invest more in educating children.
Updated at 5:22 pm on 6 May 2024
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Pasifika Sipoti wrap
A round-up of results from the big sporting events that took place in the weekend, including Super Rugby, rugby sevens, cricket and soccer.
Updated at 5:18 pm on 6 May 2024
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'Senior portfolios' expected to be taken up by Sogavare's group in new Solomons government
A veteran Solomon Islands journalist says people in the country expect the last 12 portfolios in this government will go to 'Our Party' MPs.
Updated at 4:32 pm on 6 May 2024
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New Solomon Islands PM Manele unveils first line up of ministers, more to be revealed soon
Eleven MPs were confirmed as ministers in the Government for National Unity and Transformation coalition on Saturday and another 12 are exepcted to be sworn in the coming days.
Updated at 11:42 am on 6 May 2024
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Canadian miner exploring for gold and copper on Bougainville
A Canadian mining company, Island Passage Development Canada Limited (IPDC) is undertaking a mining exploration programme in Bougainville.
Updated at 11:14 am on 6 May 2024