U.S targets UN decolonisation, silence may signal acceptance

Fiji, Oct. 26 -- The United States has called for an end to the United Nations committee that reviews Guam's political status, and former Guam delegate to Congress Robert Underwood says island leaders... Read More

Pacific women are already doing the work. COP31 must back them

Fiji, Oct. 26 -- The ocean is not a backdrop to Pacific life. It is the source of it. As the Tongan Fijian writer Epeli Hau'ofa wrote, the sea is "our pathway to each other and to everyone else" - it ... Read More

Fiji claim record win with World Cup thrashing of PNG

Fiji, Oct. 26 -- Fiji are on the cusp of claiming a Women's Rugby League World Cup semi-final berth in their first-ever tournament appearance after trouncing Papua New Guinea 40-4. In sapping conditi... Read More

Expert: Micronesia 'on the front line' of Chinese activity in Pacific

Fiji, Oct. 26 -- Surrounded by hundreds of maritime assets, Micronesia is "on the front line" of China's activity and growth in the Pacific, according to Benjamin Blandin, research fellow with the Ins... Read More

SODELPA opposition puts Fiji constitutional bill at risk as PM Rabuka warns Coalition could collapse

Fiji, Oct. 26 -- Fiji's proposed constitutional amendments face mounting opposition, with coalition partner SODELPA refusing to support the Bill's third reading, former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Kh... Read More

Industry Awaits Real Reform

Srinagar, Oct. 26 -- Factories do not shut down in a day, rather their decline begins long before machines fall silent. It starts when investment is postponed, when credit becomes difficult to access,... Read More

Garbage Reveals Governance Gaps

Srinagar, Oct. 24 -- Garbage pile at the edge of a city is often treated as the end of a process and in reality, it is evidence of where the process failed. Every heap of mixed waste, every overflowin... Read More

'Test of regionalism': Pacific church group calls for review of Israel's PIF role

Fiji, Oct. 23 -- The region's premier ecumenical organisation is calling for Israel's new partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to be reviewed. The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), wh... Read More

'Cut the umbilical cord': Bougainville's bid to break away from Papua New Guinea faces reckoning

Fiji, Oct. 23 -- For decades, the distant island of Bougainville has fought for secession from Papua New Guinea, for a future as an independent nation of its own. This week, that long-running aspirat... Read More

Traditional journalism in the age of fakery

Fiji, Oct. 23 -- Amid the uncontrollable surge of information online and the growing influence of social media, I heard it buzzing around: print is dying. Hashtags are the new headlines. Is this proj... Read More

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