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Pacific Islands Forum:
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
Leaders from 18 Pacific countries will gather in the Solomon Islands next month for the annual Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). But why is such engagement important? According to Sione Tekiteki, a former PIF adviser and senior...
Pacific Islands Forum: Expert on why region’s ‘Mini-UN’ matters
Pacific News Service
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Leaders from 18 Pacific countries will gather in the Solomon Islands next month for the annual Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). But why is such engagement important? According to Sione Tekiteki, a former PIF adviser and senior...
Aust-PNG relations at 50: Pride,politics and price of partnership
The National
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Papua New Guinea kicked off a festival of 50th anniversary independence celebrations last month with breathless fanfare that will run well into the rest of the year. The national milestone will fall on Sept 16. Billboards have sprung up around...
British pilot 'finds location of Amelia Earhart's lost plane' using Google Earth
LAD Bible
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A pilot believes he has found the whereabouts of explorer Amelia Earhart's lost plane. The Brit claims that it was all thanks to Google Earth, following news that scientists had found the same thing. Earhart was a trend-setter of her time,...
UNGA 2025 schedule: Eyes on returning Trump and welcoming Syria's Al Shara to UN
The National News
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World leaders will converge on New York next month for the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, facing a crowded agenda of protracted wars, climate change and UN reforms, with the spotlight firmly on the return of US President Donald Trump....
SHIPPING TIMES | The Pacific Maritime Decarbonisation Program
The Fiji Times
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August 20, 2025
A regional program to help Pacific countries such as Fiji step towards a greener and more resilient region was launched last week. The Pacific Maritime Decarbonisation Program, launched by the Transport Minister Ro Filipe Tuisawau, has a whopping...
The Pacific Maritime Decarbonisation Program
The Fiji Times
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August 20, 2025
A regional program to help Pacific countries such as Fiji step towards a greener and more resilient region was launched last week. The Pacific Maritime Decarbonisation Program, launched by the Transport Minister Ro Filipe Tuisawau, has a whopping...
Editorial: Japan gov't must quickly return remains of WWII victims to families
The Mainichi
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The almost entire skeletal remains of a war dead person are seen in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, after their discovery in April 2025, in this photo taken on June 23, 2025. They are believed to belong to a young soldier aged around 20 at the time....
Column: Marine monument threat overwrought
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 17, 2025
STAR-ADVERTISER / 2018 Rain encroaches on fishing boats docked at Pier 31 in Honolulu. It is overly concerning that the Star-Advertiser’s coverage of the Pacific Island Heritage Marine National Monument (PIHNM) opening to commercial fishing and...
Horrific! How Climate Change Has Caused An Entire Island Nation To Migrate To Australia
Free Press Journal
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In a landmark move, the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is preparing to become the first country in the world to relocate its entire population due to climate change. Scientists warn that the country, made up of nine low-lying coral islands, may...
The art and precision of tuna tagging in the Pacific
Pacific Community (SPC)
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By Jeff Muir, the Pacific Community's (SPC) scientist on board the tuna tagging boat, a tuna tagger on his 10th SPC tagging cruise. His aim on this cruise is to catch a bigger bigeye than he did on the previous voyage in 2023. With over 500,000...
80 Years After the Bomb, How Much Longer Will Our Luck Last?
The Diplomat
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August 5, 2025
Eighty years ago this week, when U.S. President Harry Truman announced the first use of an atomic bomb, he called it “the greatest achievement of organized science in history.” Truman warned that more powerful bombs were in development and that...
How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share
Mongabay
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August 13, 2025
Fifty years from now, in 2075, global ocean temperatures are forecast to rise by between 2° and 5° Celsius (3.6° and 9° Fahrenheit). Warming is already reshaping fisheries worldwide, and even more dramatic changes are expected as fish largely move...
The original ‘Lone Ranger’ was killed in WWII — but not by the enemy
Navy Times
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August 14, 2025
Amid the depths of the American Great Depression, came an American hero that enthralled over 17 million listeners during its debut from radio station WXYZ in Detroit. Hitting the airwaves in 1933, “The Lone Ranger” depicted a character who was the...
How to leave a sinking nation: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
The Guardian
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August 14, 2025
In November 2022, Simon Kofe, then foreign minister of the island nation of Tuvalu, announced a sensational plan for his country’s survival. Climate breakdown poses an existential threat to small island-nations in the Pacific, but Tuvalu’s...
How to watch Argentina v New Zealand: Live streams, TV details for today’s Rugby Championship clash
Rugby World
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August 23, 2025
Can the world number one All Blacks build on their winning start to the tournament? Watch Argentina v New Zealand live streams today, as the southern hemisphere giants continue their Rugby Championship 2025 campaigns at Estadio José Amalfitani in...
How to watch Argentina v New Zealand: Live streams, TV details for today’s Rugby Championship clash
Rugby World
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August 23, 2025
Can the world number one All Blacks build on their winning start to the tournament? Watch Argentina v New Zealand live streams today, as the southern hemisphere giants continue their Rugby Championship 2025 campaigns at Estadio José Amalfitani in...
Pacific Islands race to contain 'largest dengue fever outbreak in a decade'
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
When all four of Taloa Lam Shong's children were struck down with dengue fever in Samoa, she was on high alert. "I was scared and worried, knowing dengue fever had claimed children's lives," she said. Nearly 8,000 people have been diagnosed with...
Chinese firm explores seawater desalination for Gizo
Solomon Star
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August 15, 2025
A delegation from Jiangsu Fenghai New Energy Seawater Desalination Development Co., Ltd from China is in Gizo, Western Province, for a three-day technical visit to assess the feasibility of a seawater desalination pilot project. The visit, hosted...
Trump a boon for deep-sea mining: industry boss
TerraDaily
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Trump a boon for deep-sea mining: industry boss By Steven TRASK Rarotonga, Cook Islands (AFP) July 23, 2025 A leading deep-sea mining company in the paradisal Cook Islands is aiming to start commercial production by 2030, spurred on by Donald...