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New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister has called for the world to do more to battle climate change impacts after witnessing the challenges that Kiribati faces first hand.

The New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister has been warmly welcomed in Kiribati.

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister says it's time to put Fiji's volatile political history in the past.

New Zealand's deputy prime minister says it would be premature to extend New Zealand citizenship to environmental refugees fleeing the effects of climate change.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister says the country's "diplomatic footprint" is being boosted around the Pacific to bring better outcomes to the region.

New Zealand foreign affairs minister Winston Peters says New Zealand is to create 14 new diplomatic posts as part of its so called 'Pacific Reset'.

Australia's environment minister has been accused of offending the former president of Kiribati by saying the Pacific is always seeking cash from Australia.

Money aimed at combatting climate change is not reaching the Pacific's poorest and most vulnerable, a development agency says. Audio

The Federated States of Micronesia President says islands in the Pacific will be the first to disappear unless countries get behind the implentation of climate change agreements.

Journalists who attended the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru have been criticised for focusing on refugees.

Indonesia's influence in the Pacific Islands is growing, but is shadowed by disquiet over its region of Papua, known widely as West Papua.

The Chinese President Xi Jinping is offering to host a meeting with Pacific leaders in Port Moresby ahead of the APEC leaders summit in November.

New Zealand's foreign minister says it is looking to completely re-shape its aid spending, announcing the establishment of a "Strategic International Development Fund."

French Polynesia could become the location of the world's first floating city as early as 2022 - says the co-founder of a non-profit think tank.

One child has died and nearly 500 people have become unwell in Kiribati over the past two months due to suspected dengue fever.

New Zealand Defence Force aircraft are spending hundreds of expensive hours every year looking for missing fishing boats and ferries in the Pacific. Audio

Pacific islands will receive the bulk of New Zealand's increased foreign aid budget, announced this evening by its Foreign Minister Winston Peters.

New Zealand is to send accident investigators to help investigate the sinking of the MV Butiraoi in Kiribati.

More aid money should be put towards sustainable shipping in the region to avoid tragedies like the recent Kiribati ferry disaster, according to Pacific maritime researcher Peter Nuttall.

A summit next week in Majuro will bring together the leaders of the eight nations that control waters where most of the world's skipjack tuna is caught.