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Fiji's prison island of Nukulau which has housed the May 2000 coup convicts is to be shut down and the prisoners relocated to the mainland. The military commander, Commodore Bainimarama,...

Commodore Frank Bainimarama's Fiji coup seems to be making slow progress. The Great Council of Chiefs refuses to recognise the military takeover, church groups have come out in opposition, and...

Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase says he is under house arrest after heavily armed troops have surrounded his Suva residence for much of today. He has refused to resign and...

Fiji's parliament has been told that the prospects for Fiji's tourism industry in 2007 are looking increasingly bleak as a result of the crisis caused by the impasse between the...

Fiji's Attorney General says the infighting in the Labour Party could threaten the fragile coalition government. Qoriniasi Bale says there are already unresolved issues in the multi-party cabinet and…

A rift within the Fiji Labour Party has reached crisis point after four senior members blocked a list of names for appointment to the Senate submitted by their leader, Mahendra...

Serious concern is being expressed in Fiji about the size and cost of prime minister Laisenia Qarase's new ministerial line up. Mr Qarase has named a cabinet of 24 ministers...

Serious concern is being expressed in Fiji about the size and cost of prime minister Laisenia Qarase's new ministerial line up. Mr Qarase has named a cabinet of 24 ministers...

The Nurses Association in Papua New Guinea says the government has to change how nurses are recruited after graduating from training school. The minister of health wants a major expansion...

Fiji's acting president and commander-in-chief, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, has presided over the first face to face meeting between the prime minister and the military commander to resolve the standoff…

Fiji's National Security Council has held an emergency meeting in Suva to confront a crisis caused by the military commander's threat to take over government. Fiji TV reports that the...

The former Papua New Guinea prime minister, Sir William Skate was said to be a man of the people at his funeral today. More than 5,000 people gathered in Port...

A rally in central Melbourne last night highlighted the fourth anniversary of the Tampa crisis. Several hundred refugee supporters marched from the State Library of Victoria and stopped traffic…

The US Department of Interior says the end of tax breaks for US companies working in insular areas will cause the loss of tuna canneries in American Samoa. The department...

A meeting between American Samoa's House Speaker and Senate President has resulted in a funding measure for the territory's hospital getting some attention in the House. Senators were happy to...

The new Government in the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville is expected to face early demands for compensation and outstanding wages. Former resistance members who say they are owed...

There is shock in Samoa at a murder/suicide which has left a couple and their two children dead in the Aleisa area on the main island of Upolu. The husband,...

In Solomon Islands, landowners of the Gold Ridge Mine want the mine reopened despite reports of unrest near the former mine site. The mine was was closed at the height...

The Nauru government says talks are underway to secure new long-term headquarters in Australia. Receivers have forced the Nauru Phosphate Corporation and the public affairs department out of two…

Nauru's debt crisis has worsened, after receivers moved to evict the government from its offices in Australia, within two weeks. The receivers for the Australian assets of the Nauru Phosphate...

An opposition politician in Nauru says the country is on the verge of a crisis comparable to that which faced Solomon Islands. Dr Kieren Keke says the government is operating...

The Fiji prime minister has spoken out against the wholesale condemnation of the May 2000 coup, saying some of the comments amount to a warped view of the events. Laisenia...

The Solomon Islands parliament is to be recalled after a first round of talks in Honiara with Australia and New Zealand about a possible armed intervention to restore law and...

Fiji women's organisations, NGO's and lawyers have condemned a proposal by a government senator that sex offenders to be stoned to death or castrated. Senator Apisai Tora, a longtime convert...

The governor of American Samoa has asked President Bush, to declare the territory a major disaster area, following the flash floods which killed four people. Togiola Tulafono says the hospital,...