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Pacific trade pact extended for five more years
8 Dec 2025The PACER Plus agreement commits its 10 members to reducing tariffs and trade restrictions over the next two decades, with fresh funding from Australia and New Zealand. Audio
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NZDF confirms medals for 85 Cook Islands WWII veterans
15 Dec 2025For more than eight decades, the service of over 80 Cook Islanders who served during World War II went untold and unrecognised. Audio
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Top 2: Pacific dominates Miss France pageant
8 Dec 2025French Polynesia and New Caledonia have secured a double victory at the weekend with the two top seats in the 2026 Miss France pageant.
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Pacific news in brief for 8 December
8 Dec 2025A round-up of news from around the region, including HIV concerns in Solomon Islands.
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Pasifika Sipoti in brief for 8 December
8 Dec 2025A round-up of sports news from around the region, including qualifiers for the Netball World Cup.
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Rugby Sevens: Fiji finish third in Cape Town
8 Dec 2025It was the second consecutive week the Fijians had finished third and beaten France, doing that earlier in Dubai last weekend.
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'One body with two souls': One of conjoined PNG twins dies
8 Dec 2025The boys had a seven-hour operation in Australia to surgically separate them on Sunday, but only one of the boys survived.
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Bougainville independence process enters 'final leg' amid lingering uncertainty
5 Dec 2025Representatives of Papua New Guinea and Bougainville held talks this week in Port Moresby over the future of the autonomous region's political status this week.
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Anote Tong: 'Our fate has already been decided'
The former Kiribati president says Australia's failure to secure its bid to host the next United Nations climate conference with Pacific nations is a missed opportunity.
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Kanak pro-independence leader in New Caledonia
5 Dec 2025Christian Téin arrived back in New Caledonia on Thursday, after spending one and a half year in mainland France, following his arrest in June 2024.
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La'auli had achilles surgery during two-month absence - High Commission
Samoa's High Commissioner to New Zealand says speculation that the Samoan leader health "was a very sick" are false.
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Fiji pushes to grow agricultural exports in NZ
Fiji's agricultural product exports will need to be of the best quality to compete against products from other nations when entering the New Zealand market, the country's agriculture minister says.
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Tongan short film eyes Oscars nomination
'Lea Tupu'anga/Mother Tongue' premiered last year and has been shown at 20 international film festivals around the world. Audio
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University opens new space honouring late Green Party MP
An intimate ceremony filled with singing, tears and laughter marked the opening of a new Pacific student space at the University of Auckland's general library dedicated to Fa'anānā Efeso Collins.
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Former Guam delegate urges Micronesian unity to leverage US military expansion
5 Dec 2025Dr Robert Underwood says Pacific Island nations must move together if they want real benefits from the United States' expanding military footprint across Micronesia.
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'Please pray for Tom and Sawong': Family spokesman of conjoined twins from PNG
7 Dec 2025Surgery in Australia to separate fragile conjoined twins from Papua New Guinea is imminent, as one of the tiny boys is failing fast.
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Rare PNG conjoined twins en route to Australia as case reaches 'critical' point
5 Dec 2025The boys, Tom and Sawong, were born two months ago in remote PNG.
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Fiji men defeat New Zealand to book sevens semifinal spot
Fiji defeated New Zealand 35-5 in their final pool game at the Cape Town 7s tournament
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Cannabis 'movement' demands law reform for 'freedom to use'
The creator of a self-described "non-registered brand" in its infancy wants the Fijian government to legalise the use and cultivation of marijuana in the country.
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Another major cocaine shipment intercepted in Papeete
4 Dec 2025The drugs were found in 27 individually-wrapped plastic bricks in containers aboard a cargo vessel believed to be bound for Australia or New Zealand, local authorities say.
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Lack of human rights institutions in some Pacific nations a concern - watchdog
5 Dec 2025CIVICUS is calling on these countries "to establish national human rights institutions as soon as possible". Audio
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PNG confronts unprecedented wave of MPs' deaths
4 Dec 2025Since 2022, twelve sitting MPs and provincial governors have died while still in office - almost a tenth of the total 118 seats.
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Police launch internal probe into officer's conduct following viral video
The Fiji Police Force is investigating an officer's conduct after a video of him kissing a woman at work went viral, fueling claims of sexual harassment.
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Fiji, Tonga pleased with 2027 World Cup draw
4 Dec 2025The Rugby World Cup, to be played across Australia from October 2027, will feature 24 teams, drawn into six pools of four teams each.
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