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Palau's President has announced his country will not attend this year's Pacific Island Forum in Niue due to the unresolved Forum issue on the situation in Fiji. President Tommy Remengesau...

The interim government of Fiji has withdrawn from attending the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Niue as a protest at being excluded from scheduled post summit talks. Little over a...

The interim government of Fiji has withdrawn from attending the Pacific Islands Forum summit in Niue as a protest at being excluded from scheduled post-summit talks. Little over a day...

As Niue prepares to host the Pacific Islands Forum summit this week, one of the island's opposition MPs says such annual meetings are a waste of money. Terry Coe says...

Pacific Islands Forum leaders are expected to make their strongest statement yet on climate change and its impacts on the region at this week's summit in Niue. Climate change is...

The Premier of Niue Toke Talagi says it is important that the Pacific Islands Forum discusses the interim Fiji Government's refusal to hold elections by March next year, but he...

The head of the Foundation of the South Pacific, Rex Horoi, says civil society organisations haven't given up hope on getting to meet alongside Forum Leaders at their annual meeting...

New Zealand has rejected claims by Fiji that its delegation to next week's Pacific Islands Forum in Niue has been barred from meeting its international partners in Auckland. This comes...

Reports from Fiji say the interim government may pull out of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting in Niue after it was excluded from dialogue meetings in New Zealand.

Reports from Fiji say the interim regime may pull out of next week's Forum Leaders meeting in Niue after it was excluded from dialogue meetings in New Zealand. Instead, Fiji...

The General Secretary of the Oceania Football Confederation says he's disappointed that there's been no word from the New Zealand government as to whether an under 12 Fiji football team...

Pacific regional civil society organisations have drafted a series of priorities to achieve next year, including a different way of engaging with Forum leaders. Civil society plays a key role...

Fiji's police are using pretexts to arrest people campaigning against a plan to change the country's voting system, says a political leader.

The New Zealand Government has temporarily lifted its travel ban on the Fiji interim regime to help Commodore Frank Bainimarama attend next week's Pacific Islands Forum summit in Niue. The...

Australian Farmers has warned against 11th-hour scaremongering over plans to allow Pacific Islanders to fill 22,000 seasonal horticultural jobs. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to tell the…

The New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says finding a way for Fiji to return to democracy will be a key element of next week's Pacific Islands Forum summit in...

Niue has been told that to grow its fledgling tourism industry it needs to give visitors a cultural experience. Auckland University of Technology's New Zealand Tourism Research Institute is…

The Australian diplomat who headed the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat until earlier this year, Greg Urwin, died in Apia at the weekend after months of illness. He was 62. Mr...

The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, is due in Papua New Guinea tomorrow at the start of a visit to the region. He will then go on to Australia and New...

While the absence of democracratic government in Fiji is expected to dominate discussions at this month's Pacific summit in Niue, the region's leaders will also be updated on progress in...

The acting secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Feleti Teo, says when Pacific leaders meet later this month in Niue they will be looking for new ways to ensure...

UNICEF is calling for a big increase in health spending after its report shows some Pacific countries scoring badly in an international table of child mortality rates. Solomon Islands and...