$30M for MVA to Keep Failing Us, While Our People Suffer and Go Hungry

By Mabel Doge Luhan for Mabel’s Table, Kandit News & Views It was barely more than a century ago when I still held out hope for curing my primary medical complaint. No, not the posterior carbuncle, nor the seasonal rickets. I’m talking about my...

The great LNG scam: the IMO’s climate credibility is on the line

Elissama Menezes and Andrew Dumbrille, directors of Equal Routes, write for Splash ahead of this month’s crunch green vote at the International Maritime Organization. In the face of the upcoming International Maritime Organization. (IMO) Net-Zero...

Village Rhapsody: Zimbabwe’s urgent call for climate justice and health equity

The climate crisis, at its core, is also a justice crisis. Climate change is not an abstract concept for Zimbabwe—it is an unfolding daily reality. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, unpredictable rainfall and recurring floods are eroding...

Fijian PALM Workers’ Realities Require Empathy & Evidence-Informed Leadership

Press Release – Fiji Council of Social Services Characterizing workers as an “embarrassment” risks undermining their dignity and overlooks the systemic factors that compel many Fijians to seek opportunities abroad. Suva, Fiji –– The Fiji Council...

Pacific to IMO: Fast-track the Net-Zero fund or fail

Pacific leaders are calling for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to fast-track setting up its Net-Zero Fund (NZF), warning that without urgent action the Organisation will fail to deliver on its own commitment to contribute to a Just...

Pacific economies will grow in 2025, but turbulence likely ahead

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is offering a sunny outlook on the Pacific economy, but with clouds on the horizon. In its latest forecasts, the Bank puts economic growth at 4.1 percent regionwide, while projecting a...

All signs point to Dune as casting call goes out for Hollywood film in Abu Dhabi

A major UAE casting agency is looking to fill roles in a “Hollywood blockbuster” being filmed in Liwa in Abu Dhabi. Miranda Davidson Studios, which has helped cast extras in major Hollywood films being shot in the UAE – from Furious 7 to Star Trek...

Lost in Space: The Limits of Geolocation in a Satellite-Connected World

“Where are you?” is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system’s address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed-line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location...

UN must adapt to Blue Pacific, not the other way around...

Pacific leaders took the 2050 Strategy to the UN, calling for climate justice, fair finance, and security defined by peace and solidarity. By Renate Rivers Pacific Island leaders addressed the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) 80th session...

Key reason for Australia, PNG war treaty

History demonstrates that any attack on Papua New Guinea would always engage Australia’s national interest, Defence Minister Richard Marles said in explaining a key reason propelling the dramatic new mutual defence treaty with the close Pacific...

Move over, Paris and New York: 10 underrated cities for outstanding art

Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, New York, Madrid. The global epicentres of art in all of its creative forms, schools, eras and disciplines are well known, well documented and well visited. But art truly is everywhere in this world, although...

Pacific News In Brief For 1 October

Article – RNZ A round-up of news from around the region, including concerns about rheumatic heart disease in Fiji. Fiji – health A leading doctor in Fiji says rheumatic heart disease prevention needs to be ramped up. Almost one child in every...

Pacific Islands focus: health and gender inequities, climate updates, and some hope for marine biodiversity

Introduction by Croakey: In breaking news on Thursday, Papua New Guinea’s cabinet has approved a landmark defence agreement with Australia. PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape said the agreement, known as the PukPuk treaty, “will elevate the two...

The Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP) Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Journey: What are we doing differently?

The Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP), being implemented across 15 participating countries1, provided a rare opportunity to reimagine how MERL can meaningfully contribute to ensuring sovereign warehouse storage and response...

Solomon Islands pushes UN to back Pacific-led peace and resilience agenda

Solomon Islands Prime Minister and Forum Chair Jeremiah Manele has told the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) last week that the world is entering “a moment of profound uncertainty,” warning against militarisation, rising inequality, and...

Albo in La-La land

Anthony Albanese has enjoyed the period since his re-election, imagining himself to be the Wizard of Oz. After Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for him, he convinced himself that he had neutralised any threat China might pose and did not need...

Passport people get new home

GIFF JOHNSON Marshall Islands Immigration and the RMI Passport Office have a new home that was officially opened Monday this week. And, specifically speaking, the RMI Passport Office actually has two new offices, the second of which will be opened...

GTI Adds Rockefeller Center, MTA-Mobile Travel Agents, Oceania Cruises & Hurtigruten To Growing Client Roster

Tourism marketing and PR agency, GTI, is building on a successful first half of 2025 with a slew of new client acquisitions and strategic team expansion, adding Rockefeller Center, MTA-Mobile Travel Agents, Oceania Cruises and Hurtigruten to its...

Pacific economies will grow in 2025, but turbulence ahead, ADB says

Rahman said island nations are expected to largely sidestep the US's one percent tax on remittances. Photo: AFP/SERGIO PITAMITZ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is offering a sunny outlook on the Pacific economy, but with clouds on the horizon. In...

Palau President calls for Climate Justice, Ocean Protection and UN reform…

Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr has told the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) that small island states are “at war” with climate change, warning that 1.5 degrees is now a binding global obligation and calling for urgent reforms to deliver...