News & Current Affairs
Today’s latest stories and current affairs happening locally and all across the Pacific
19 May 2022
The Fiji Met Service has warned that a newly formed tropical cyclone, Gina, is approaching Vanuatu’s Pentecost, Ambrym and Malekula islands. The out of season category one storm has sustained…
19 May 2022
Moana Pasifika centre Henry Taefu is excited about the potential line-up for Samoa’s rugby team, which is due to be announced before the end of this month. New eligibility rules…
19 May 2022
Hawaii’s famous Hokule’a traditional double hull canoe has completed the first leg of the “Kealaikahiki Voyage” from Hawaii to Tahiti. Kealaikahiki, which means ‘The path to Tahiti’ is the first leg of…
19 May 2022
Sam Basil died following a car crash in the Bulolo district of Morobe Province last Wednesday. Hundreds of people, including Prime Minister James Marape, Speaker Job Pomat, governors, state ministers and MPs…
19 May 2022
A new era has dawned in Samoa with the swearing-in of three women MPs, taking the number of women in the Legislative Assembly to seven. The swearing-in follows a court…
19 May 2022
Communities in many of Kiribati’s most remote areas will receive much-needed support for climate resilience as part of a new US$20 million climate change adaptation project. The World Bank has…
19 May 2022
Four months on from the violent explosion of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, scientists are still piecing together what caused the biggest eruption the world has seen in decades. January’s…
19 May 2022
A total of 1034 athletes from 20 Pacific nations and territories are due to compete in the Pacific Mini Games in the Northern Marianas next month. Super typhoons, the withdrawal…
12 May 2022
Papua New Guinea’s deputy Prime Minister, Sam Basil, has died following a car crash in the Bulolo district of Morobe Province. As well being Deputy Prime Minister, Basil was Minister…
10 May 2022
A professor of Pacific studies says the increase in the frequency of natural disasters and land erosions, and rising ocean temperatures, means new terminology is now needed to reflect how…
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