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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...
Multi-million parliament project breaks ground with NZ, Aus aid
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 1, 2025
Construction has begun on Tonga’s new NZ$60 million Fale Alea, backed by New Zealand and Australia to strengthen democracy. The new parliamentary complex, launched this week in Nuku’alofa, will replace the original Fale Alea destroyed by the 2022...
Pacific Islanders relocate to Australia to escape rising seas
Context
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What’s the context? Climate-vulnerable Pacific Islanders take up Australia's offer for resettlement through a pioneering visa scheme. LONDON - More than a third of people living in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu have applied to permanently...
5 mistakes WWE made on SmackDown after Night of Champions
Sportskeeda
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July 5, 2025
The latest SmackDown saw both the King and Queen of the Ring put their respective world champions on notice, as both Cody Rhodes and Jade Cargill will be challenging for titles at SummerSlam. While Tiffany Stratton appeared to select her opponent...
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...
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Gateway Pundit
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July 4, 2025
Credit: FOX Sunday Morning Futures screenshot A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China’s influence while establishing America as an industry authority This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire. By...
Building resilient education systems: Shifting from deficit-driven to strengths-based approaches to resilience
Pacific Community (SPC)
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In recent years, education systems around the globe have grappled with unprecedented disruptions, ranging from pandemics and natural disasters to climate change, political instability, wars, and migration. These challenges have exposed the...
SPTE 2025: How the World Reached the Pacific
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 4, 2025
The South Pacific Tourism Exchange (SPTE) 2025 was a celebration of connection, culture, and collaboration. Held in Fiji, this year’s event welcomed media, buyers, and seller’s from across the globe — and many of them arrived thanks to the...
Cook Islands Pocket Guide Launches Major Update Following Latest Research Trip
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 4, 2025
Cook Islands Pocket Guide, the leading online travel guide for the Cook Islands, has released a major update to its content following an in-depth research trip across Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Atiu. The trip, carried out in March 2025, was made...
Politician speaks out after third of Tuvalu’s citizens apply for Australian visas
Seven News
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July 2, 2025
Pacific Island nation Tuvalu has poured cold water on a report that a huge chunk of its citizens are eager to move to Australia through a world-first climate visa. It is instead likely that many applicants are ineligible, have applied multiple...
‘Tree of Life’ nursery launched in Kolomotu‘a
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 1, 2025
A climate-resilient nursery was launched in Kolomotu‘a to strengthen sanitation and hygiene in one of Tonga’s most vulnerable areas. Acting British High Commissioner to Tonga, Ms Emma Macri, officially opened the “Tree of Life” nursery under the...
Analysis: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers an Important Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Virginia Star
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July 4, 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...
American Samoa on alert after imported dengue fever cases confirmed
RNZ
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July 3, 2025
Photo: 123RF The American Samoa Department of Health has issued a travel health alert after confirmation of three imported cases of dengue fever. The department said the disease was found in travelers who had recently returned from Samoa. In its...
Does English have any South Pacific words?
The National
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LANGUAGE In these monthly discussions we answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are asking ourselves if English has adopted any words from South Pacifc languages? NOWADAYS you will probably find it difficult to speak...
Matt Williams: Lions’ insulting attitude is nicely stoking Australian pride
The Irish Times
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The Lions have departed Bris Vegas and the muddy Brisbane river, affectionately known as the Brown Snake. They are now 1,000km south in the Emerald City. Sydney is a city that is a mere bystander to the majesty of its watery jewel. Sydney...
Tree of Life Nursery launched
Matangi Tonga Online
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July 1, 2025
HR Miss Emma Macri (middle) joined by high officials and Kolomotu'a residents for a group photo. Nuku'alofa, Tonga. 1 July 2025. Photo: Matangi Tonga. By Tupou Vaipulu Jr A community nursery for Kolomotu’a was launched by the Acting British High...
The Māori economy exceed $120 billion
Waatea News
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Role Funding: pijf-0044 Born in the Horowhenua with whakapapa connections to Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga and the Pasifika community (Tonga). Jackson has over decades of experience leading people in Banking and Technology. The Māori economy has...
Building strong fiscal foundations
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
By Ibrahim Chowdhury, Anders Hjorth Agerskov, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Christopher Wong SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, 24 JUNE 2025 (WORLD BANK) —In January 2022, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted, causing a tsunami that devastated...
Japan can help the Pacific become more resilient
The Strategist
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June 30, 2025
Australia’s 2024 national defence strategy describes Japan as an ‘indispensable partner’ for achieving regional peace and security. But the prominence of the growing defence relationship between Japan and Australia, while vital, risks obscuring...
Progress and frustration mark the UN’s third Ocean Conference
Canada's National Observer
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June 25, 2025
This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Delegates from around the world convened in Nice, France, last week to discuss a range of ocean priorities, including the implementation of a...