At the White House, the National Security Council should have expected that Pacific ... the Melanesian Countries would be reasonable for relations with Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands ...

The latest example is New Caledonia, a Belgium-sized island in the South Pacific about 930 miles northwest of the top end of New Zealand. The population was mostly Kanak (native-born Melanesians ...

Vanuatu's parliament has elected Jotham Napat as the Pacific nation's new prime minister after his Leaders Party won the ...

The US aid freeze won’t break the Pacific, but it will create unnecessary disruptions. For Southeast Asia, the consequences ...

the demand for cheap labour on the sugar plantations of northern Queensland had led to the introduction of 62,000 Pacific Islanders, known as Kanakas (from the Hawaiian word for “man”). These Kanakas ...

No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

Miss Pacific Islands pageant sparks diplomatic dispute after judges stopped at border - Judge accused of vote rigging after a ...

China says a visit this week by the Cook Islands' prime minister to Beijing was not meant to conspire against anyone in the ...

The Palau, Tuvalu and Marshall Island solar and energy storage microgrids will provide more than 50% of the power needed for aquaculture centers and demonstration farms.

Leader of Cook Islands flies to Beijing to negotiate a security deal despite New Zealand warnings The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a ...

Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...