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FCCC and UNDP partner on gender equality
Islands Business
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August 11, 2025
PACIFIC island countries have gathered in Suva, Fiji, to strengthen their capacity to measure and respond to the opportunities and challenges of digital trade. Regional countries have recognised the need to increase capacity around their digital...
Tonga parliamentarians exchange blows
Islands Business
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August 12, 2025
THE US will release $USD60 million to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency as part of a 10-year economic assistance agreement associated with the South Pacific Tuna Treaty. This announcement followed a meeting between US Deputy Secretary of...
U.S pledges $60m to Pacific Fisheries Agency under Tuna Treaty
Pacific News Service
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U.S deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has announced a US$60 million release to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) under the South Pacific Tuna Treaty. The funding is part of a 10-year Economic Assistance Agreement tied to...
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...
Cook Islands pushes for key actions to support Smaller Island States
Cook Island News
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August 14, 2025
Cook Islands head of delegation and Foreign Secretary Tepaeru Herrmann 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 Friday last...
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...
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...
Explained: The Crown Minerals Amendment Bill and the climate backlash
Te Ao Maori News
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August 2, 2025
The Crown Minerals Amendment Bill passed its third and final reading in Parliament, reversing the 2018 ban on offshore oil and gas exploration. Environmentalists say the move is a win for fossil fuel companies and shifts the financial burden of...
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...
Last country on Earth without a national football team are ready for debut
The Times
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The final resistance to football’s global dominance is set to fall in the early hours of Friday, when the self-proclaimed “last country on Earth without a team”, the Marshall Islands, play their first international match. Led by a former...
Flashback: Best broncs of all U.S. to buck here 75 years ago
Redmond Spokesman - Oregon
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August 14, 2025
100 Years Ago Aug. 20, 1925 — Issue missing… 75 Years Ago Aug. 17, 1950 — Best Broncs Of All U.S. To Buck Here Barbour Rodeo String Bound for New York Via Pendleton Show World champion riders pitted against the best stock in the United...
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...
U.S. eyes deeper ties with Cook Islands
Samoa News
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August 13, 2025
#. US-Cook Islands meet PACIFIC NEWS BRIEFS w_header Compiled by Samoa News staff The United States is looking to build stronger ties with the Cook Islands following a historic diplomatic visit this week by its Chargé d'Affaires, David Gehrenbeck,...
4 major trends shaping today’s oncology market
BioPharma Dive
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Whining about Scottish ‘austerity’ is baseless, absurd and idiotic
The Times
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Like Christmas and birthdays, the annual GERS festival seems to arrive sooner than you think. Has a year really passed since the last edition of the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland figures was published? Why, yes it has. This year’s...
PM Rabuka to skip Pacific Foreign Ministers meet today
The Fiji Times
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sitiveni Rabuka will not attend todays Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Suva. The Pacific Islands Forum has confirmed Fiji will be represented by Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Special Envoy of the...
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...
The Government of New Zealand announce additional NZD 5 million commitment to the Pacific Community Ocean Science Centre (PCCOS)
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister for Racing and Minister for Rail - New Zealand The Government of New Zealand and the Pacific Community (SPC) have deepened their partnership with the announcement of NZD 5million to...
Life on board a tuna tagging boat: Faces behind the mission
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Before the first line hits the water each morning, before the sun lifts over the horizon, the deck of the Gutsy Lady IV is already alive. The hum of the winch, the salt spray in the air, the murmur of early-morning jokes: these are the sounds and...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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