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FEATURE | The beginning of surveillance patrol
The Fiji Times
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July 5, 2025
BY FIJI NAVY FOLLOWING the welcoming ceremony on February 19, 1976, the commissioning and the naming ceremony for the first two Fiji naval ships was held on February 21, 1976. The quarter guard led by Sub Lieutenant David AG. Lane with the RFMF...
Fiji topples Tonga in Oceania Women’s Rugby opener
Islands Business
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June 11, 2025
Registrations are now open for the Pacific Infrastructure Conference 2025, the region’s premier platform for collaboration on sustainable infrastructure development across the Pacific Islands. The conference will be held from 18–20 August 2025 at...
Update from the Division – Pacific Sustainable Tourism Newsbeat | Issue 65
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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June 11, 2025
Mālō e lelei from the SPTO Division of Sustainable Tourism! Welcome to the Pacific Sustainable Tourism Newsbeat – Issue 65. May was a milestone month, featuring several key events hosted by SPTO, including the Regional Workshop on Sustainable...
Tukilamulamu Traditions: The Story behind Tonga’s True Vava’u Beauty Line
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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June 11, 2025
In the heart of Nuku’alofa, inside a shop filled with the rich scent of coconut oil, earthy tuitui, and calming sandalwood, you’ll find a little piece of Vava’u — bottled, blended, and beautifully handcrafted. This is TRUE VAVA’U IMPORTS &...
Parliament national debate targets seabed mining
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 5, 2025
The first Speaker’s Debate of 2025 launches 10 July, tackling the controversial issue of deep-sea mining. The public forum, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in Nukuʻalofa, will explore the economic benefits and environmental concerns of seabed mining—a...
A Pacific Call To Action On World Environment And Oceans Day
Scoop
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Sunday, 8 June 2025, 7:46 am Press Release: UNDP 06 June 2025 As we mark World Environment Day on 5 June and World Oceans Day on 8 June, Pacific Island nations are sounding the alarm. This year’s World Environment Day theme, “Ending Plastic...
Call for Kenya to Join Fossil Fuel Treaty as World Marks Environment Day
Capital FM Kenya
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June 7, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 7 – Call for Kenya to Join Fossil Fuel Treaty as World Marks Environment Day NAIROBI, Kenya, June 5 – As the world commemorates World Environment Day, climate activists are urging the Kenyan government to join the Fossil Fuel...
‘Wearing my flag on my heart’: Cook Islander championing climate action in Samoa
Cook Island News
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June 7, 2025
Cook Islander Ewan Cameron at SPREP headquarters in Apia, Samoa. TALAIA MIKA/25060631 For Cook Islander Ewan Cameron, living and working abroad doesn’t mean losing touch with home – in fact, it’s the opposite. Based in Apia, Samoa, with his...
Error-strewn British and Irish Lions labour to victory over Waratahs
The Independent
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July 5, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Taking matters into our own hands: Pacific aid dependency
The National
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There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the Sustainable Development Goals since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of Pacific Island countries (PICs) and distance...
BEHIND THE NEWS | The real fertility crisis
The Fiji Times
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July 6, 2025
As nations across the world react to falling birth rates and ageing populations with growing anxiety, a recent report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) urges a radical shift in how we understand and respond to population change. Rather...
PCRIC engages Tiueti
The Fiji Times
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July 2, 2025
The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) has engaged Tonga’s former Finance Minister Tiofilusi Tiueti to lead the development of a national contingency plan aimed at strengthening Tonga’s financial preparedness for natural disasters....
#weekend Matariʻi & Matariki an…
Waatea News
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Role Funding: As Aotearoa celebrates Matariki, Tahiti marks a sister celebration called Matariʻi, rooted in the same Pleiades star cluster—acknowledged across Polynesia as a beacon of renewal, remembrance, and ritual. Matariʻi is the Tahiti name...
Israeli startup’s unproven marine tech raises doubts about carbon capture claims
The Times of Israel
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AP — The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to fund what it describes as a groundbreaking technology in the fight against climate change. Formed three years ago by...
Commentary: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Ohio Star
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July 5, 2025
by Wyatt J. Greco In an April 2025 executive order, President Trump affirmed that offshore critical minerals are key to creating supply chains that do not depend on adversaries like the People’s Republic of China. While US leadership on deep-sea...
New Zealand floods trigger tsunami flashbacks for Samoan man
RNZ
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July 4, 2025
Waihopai and Wairau rivers. Photo: Webcam/Marlborough District Council With New Zealand's recent weather warnings and widespread flooding, a Samoan man whose home in Marlborough was affected says the experience triggered haunting memories of the...
Marape welcomes US$63.4 Million GCF grant for landmark REDD+ Project
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 3, 2025
Prime Minister James Marape has welcomed the approval of a groundbreaking US$63.4 million grant by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for Papua New Guinea — the country’s first-ever single-nation GCF project — marking a major milestone in international...
Space is not the last border – this is the foundation of our future: the deputy chief of the UN
The European Times
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July 2, 2025
Attack delegates in a no forum on peaceful space uses, Amina Mohammed has urged greater international cooperation when the world is increasingly depending on satellites for everything, from the response to disasters to climate surveillance. “”...
Slipper – the great Wallabies survivor – lines up shot at triple redemption
WAtoday
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July 5, 2025
But in a fresher redemptive context, perhaps, Slipper is also one of nine survivors from the Wallabies team that was downed by Fiji at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. It effectively ended the Wallabies’ World Cup campaign. Fiji coach Mick Byrne was...
Regional Pacific Workshop Strengthens Link Between Agriculture and Tourism
Hospitality Net
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July 3, 2025
UN Tourism, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), concluded a successful three-day Regional Workshop on Sustainable Gastronomy...