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Stronger ties benefit Pacific island nations
China Daily Global
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Fijian students try their hands at Chinese calligraphy on April 15 during an event celebrating the United Nations Chinese Language Day, which falls on April 20, in Suva, the capital of the Pacific island country. GAO XIN/XINHUA This summer, Basi...
Niue announces quarantine-free travel dates for New Zealand
Pacific News Service
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After keeping Covid at the borders for two years, Niue has announced its plans to ease MIQ protocols for travellers. From 11 July, travellers will be allowed to visit without having to enter quarantine or self-isolate. This is step three of a...
Niue to host Pacific Fisheries Ministerial
Islands Business
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July 22, 2025
Pacific Trade Ministers have welcomed the draft Kava Declaration, marking a significant step toward safeguarding kava’s cultural and economic importance across the region. At the Pacific ACP and Forum Trade Ministers Meeting in Suva last week,...
Pacific health expert questions impact of new medical school on Pacific representation
Pacific Media Network
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A Pacific health expert doubts a new medical school at the University of Waikato will change the representation of Pacific people in medicine. Speaking to PMN News, Sir Dr Collin Tukuitonga, the Associate Dean at the University of Auckland, raises...
Cook Islands advocate for mainstreaming of SIS priorities within Pacific regional…
Pacific News Service
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The Cook Islands joined fellow members of the Pacific Islands Forum Smaller Island States (SIS) group at the SIS Officials Meeting held at the Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji on 8 August. The meeting, chaired by Federated States of Micronesia...
New Zealand government snubs Cook Islands’ 60th anniversary celebration
World Socialist Web Site
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August 12, 2025
In a clear and deliberate diplomatic snub, the New Zealand government boycotted celebrations in the Cook Islands on August 4 marking 60 years of “self-government in free association with New Zealand.” Constitution Day, or Te Maeva Nui, is held...
VIDEO: New Zealand's Air Force Performs 'Daring' Rescue of Americans from Antarctica
Breitbart
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August 7, 2025
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) rescued three Americans from Antarctica during a risky overnight operation on Tuesday. The medical evacuation was conducted in freezing temperatures and complete darkness, Fox News reported on Wednesday....
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
NZ sends aid to Covid-stricken Vanuatu as outbreak deepens
Pacific News Service
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There’s been a rush to vaccination centres in Vanuatu with the whole country now in lockdown as Covid-19 spreads from the main island. Up until this week it had managed to keep the virus out of the country with strict border controls over the past...
Your voice will be heard- opening message at inaugural Pacific
Television Niue
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August 7, 2025
By Gustava Esther Pavihi Thursday 7th August, 2025, Taumeasina– More than twenty young people from across the Pacific are in Samoa this week for the first Pacific Youth Dialogue on Loss and Damage with the theme ‘Providing our Pacific youth with...
Pacific youth called to define their own climate story
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar in Apia “You today are exactly where you are built to be.” The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Climate Change Resilience Director, Tagaloa Cooper shared these words of encouragement with...
India, Fiji Discuss Bilateral Ties And Ways To Strengthen Cooperation
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Suva, July 30 (IANS) India and Fiji held the 6th Foreign Office Consultations in Suva on Tuesday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in health, education, capacity building, trade, investment, agriculture,...
University of Auckland Pathway Supporting Pacific Aspirations
TP+
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August 5, 2025
The third cohort have completed the micro-credential course ‘Improving Wellbeing Outcomes for Pacific Families’. Photo: University of Auckland / Supplied The University of Auckland aims to help grow Pacific leadership through a course supporting...
Fisheries ministers endorse agreement on allocation of South Pacific Albacore
Matangi Tonga Online
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July 28, 2025
Fisheries Ministers unanimously endorsed the agreement on proportional allocation of South Pacific Albacore (SPA) among FFA Members, during the 24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial in Niue last week. The FFA said that this breakthrough...
Luxon welcomed to Papua New Guinea for celebration of diplomatic ties
RNZ
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August 4, 2025
Christopher Luxon was welcomed to Papua New Guinea with a 19-gun salute before being treated to a lavish state banquet. Photo: RNZ / Russell Palmer Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape has warmly welcomed his New Zealand counterpart...
Fiji welcomes breakthroughdeal on South Pacific Albacore management
Pacific News Service
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Fiji’s Minister for Fisheries, Alitia Bainivalu, has welcomed a major regional breakthrough on the sustainable management of South Pacific Albacore, calling it a “historic milestone” for the country’s tuna industry. “This is a landmark...
Japan offers 3 million vaccine doses at Pacific Islands Summit
Pacific News Service
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Japan will provide Pacific island nations and territories with 3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from mid-July through the UN-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday. Suga’s announcement came as...
One Fit Hire: The clothing rental that celebrates ‘beautiful bodies, beautiful minds’
TP+
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August 3, 2025
Ann-Tauilo Motuga | Reporter/Videographer Born from a personal struggle, One Fit Hire has become a beacon of change for plus size fashion and representation. With conventional retail stores often limiting their sizes to a 14 and below, Kahu Henare...
‘Clinical Obesity’ Definition Shifts Obesity Prevalence
Medscape
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The adoption of the new “clinical obesity” definition alters prevalence estimates of obesity in many parts of the world compared with BMI-based definitions, new data suggested. In January 2025, a Lancet Commission proposed that the diagnosis of...