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Building Pacific capacities to support trade and market access

Building Pacific capacities to support trade and market access

To strengthen the skills of Pacific biosecurity, border control, exporter representatives and relevant stakeholders in using Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) databases and platforms, a regional capacity-building workshop is underway in...

Niue, the tiny island selling the sea to save it from destru...

Niue, the tiny island selling the sea to save it from destru...

On a remote raised coral atoll in the South Pacific, the tiny island nation of Niue is quietly protecting one of the world's most ambitious marine reserves. While global leaders at the UN oceans gathering in Nice debate how to scale up efforts to...

Unlocking Sustainable Finance, Key to Transition Pacific SIDS Economies

Unlocking Sustainable Finance, Key to Transition Pacific SIDS Economies

Apia, Samoa – 20 June 2025 – A timely policy dialogue held this week in Apia discussed ways to unlock sustainable finance solutions for Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This is recognition of the critical role sustainable finance...

Pacific news in brief for 1 July

Pacific news in brief for 1 July

Niue government buildings Photo: RNZ/ Sally Round Niue - budget Health, education, social welfare and government salaries have receives a boost in the Niue government's new NZ$12.5 million (US$7.6m) deficit budget. Last week, the island's finance...

Tiueti leads contingency for Tonga’s disaster finance plan

Tiueti leads contingency for Tonga’s disaster finance plan

The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) has appointed former Finance Minister Tiofilusi Tiueti to lead development of Tonga’s national contingency plan, funded by GSSP and Frankfurt School. Tiueti will design a structured blueprint...

Pacific Island countries celebrate civil registration achievements

Pacific Island countries celebrate civil registration achievements

Surami Turaga, Fiji's minister of justice, speaks at the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific on June 26, 2025. Photo courtesy of UN ESCAP Bangkok – “Cheehoo! Praise God, oue tulou!” Sonya...

Ranked 100th – Celebrate Like #1

Ranked 100th – Celebrate Like #1

After a year of economic turbulence, Pakistan’s economy seems to have crawled out of intensive care. Inflation has cooled. The current account is no longer haemorrhaging. The rupee has stopped fainting. The doctors in charge—whoever and wherever...

Pacific Ocean Commissioner: Op -ED – Ripples to Waves:

Pacific Ocean Commissioner: Op -ED – Ripples to Waves:

By Dr Filimon Manoni, Pacific Ocean Commissioner KOROR, 30 JUNE 2025 (PIFS) — It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for...

Tjibaou on New Caledonia talks in Paris: “We want to resolve this now”

Tjibaou on New Caledonia talks in Paris: “We want to resolve this now”

Koror, Palau-It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational...

PACIFIC JOURNOS MEET CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, PRAISE CHINA

PACIFIC JOURNOS MEET CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, PRAISE CHINA

Beijing, China – SIX Pacific Islands journalists met with the Director of the Pacific Island Division, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry on Foreign Affairs, Gu Xinqiang in Beijing and exchanged views within...

Cook Islands Cabinet approves significant increase in tobacco tax

Cook Islands Cabinet approves significant increase in tobacco tax

Cook Islands Cabinet has approved a significant increase in tobacco tax, aiming to reduce smoking rates and combat non-communicable diseases. The Cabinet has recently approved the initiative set by Ministry of Health to increase the tobacco tax by...

Health, education, social welfare and government salaries receive boost in budget

Health, education, social welfare and government salaries receive boost in budget

In the government’s new $12.5 million deficit budget, health and education will receive the highest boost for the new financial year as well as boost to the social welfare budget. As announced by the Minister of Finance, last week the largest...

Letter: New Zealand aid

Letter: New Zealand aid

Dear Editor, There is a claim by some doing the rounds, that New Zealand’s economy is struggling, and the aid freeze is just a convenient excuse to pull back funding. TBH (to be honest) think it through, that’s highly unlikely, budgeted foreign...

Our voyage to Statehood, 60 years on: understanding the nature and practice of free-association as we reflect on our development journey 

Our voyage to Statehood, 60 years on: understanding the nature and practice of free-association as we reflect on our development journey 

Prime Minister Mark Brown. SUPPLIED. This year, the Cook Islands marks 60 years of self-governance, an historic milestone in our voyage to statehood, by Mark Brown, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. In 1965, our people chose to shape our own...

ADB’s Director General for Pacific in Honiara

ADB’s Director General for Pacific in Honiara

Director General (DG) of the Pacific Department within the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) is on a five-day visit to the Solomons. Emma Veve who was appointed to the position in late February 2025 arrived in Honiara on Monday and has been visiting...

King hailed as nature ‘leader’ at event to drive private money into biodiversity

King hailed as nature ‘leader’ at event to drive private money into biodiversity

The King shook hands with a “gorilla” and was made a “care-holder” of an area of pristine Pacific ocean as he attended an event on driving finance into nature protection. Ministers, indigenous leaders and businesses and investors representing...

Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025

Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025

See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: Countries With the Most Children in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...

Whau Pasifika Festival celebrates youth leadership, calls for genuine govt support for future growth

Whau Pasifika Festival celebrates youth leadership, calls for genuine govt support for future growth

The Whau Pasifika Festival has returned to West Auckland promising most ambitious programme yet, but organisers stress that meaningful government investment is key to ensuring its survival beyond 2025. Ina Sauni, the festival director, says the...

Pacific News Briefs: Award-Winning Māori Short Film

Pacific News Briefs: Award-Winning Māori Short Film

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An award-winning short film, which honors the resilience of Māori youth, has been named a finalist at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Written and directed by Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Porou, Niue,...

New List of Countries you can Travel Visa-Free with Pakistani Passport in 2025

New List of Countries you can Travel Visa-Free with Pakistani Passport in 2025

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani passport holders can now enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to more than 30 countries, marking a notable improvement in the country’s global travel standing. According to the latest data released by Henley & Partners,...

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