Pacific News Search
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Otago University researcher looks at food neophobia among Pasifika
An Otago University researcher hopes to gain insights into obesity among Pasifika by studying food neophobia - or resistance to new foods.
Updated at 1:05 pm on 14 August 2024
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Kiribati elections 2024 - what we know
Campaigning, which has been going on for months, has "become more intense" and "the incumbent candidates seeking re-election [are] really going out", a Kiribati journalist says.
Updated at 12:35 pm on 14 August 2024
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Kiribati polls open: 'Hype is not as it is in other countries’
A local resident in the capital Tarawa told RNZ Pacific on the eve of the election is an "important moment" for people of Micronesian nation.
Updated at 12:00 pm on 14 August 2024
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Samoa still reporting dengue cases
In an update for the week from 29 July to 4 August, the health ministry said 494 lab-confirmed cases had been reported since November.
Updated at 11:43 am on 14 August 2024
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Some Islanders don't want to leave homelands despite climate closing in - research
"We hear climate change this, climate change that, there's a flurry of activity and then it's done, but this is an ongoing issue," a University of Waikato researcher says.
Updated at 9:22 am on 14 August 2024
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Fiji govt seeks public submission on plan to make defence sector 'more gender-inclusive'
The ministry said it wants to "gather your valuable insights" about how it can make Fiji's defence and security sector "more gender-inclusive and responsive".
Updated at 4:53 pm on 13 August 2024
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Tips for Tonga: Agenda setting for Pacific leaders’ meeting
Opinion - The prime ministers of Cook Islands, Fiji and Solomon Islands hope to be in the New Caledonia next week, before heading to Tonga to report back, Tess Newton Cain writes.
Updated at 3:44 pm on 13 August 2024
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Pacific news in brief for August 13
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Sitiveni Rabuka's trip to China.
Updated at 2:38 pm on 13 August 2024
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Marshall Islands goes with other Pacific nations on Fukushima nuclear wastewater release
President Hilda Heine has decided to join other Pacific countries in recognising "the IAEA as the authority on nuclear safety".
Updated at 11:39 am on 13 August 2024
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Fiji's PM Sitiveni Rabuka 'will apologise' to Melanesian leaders as he awaits Indonesia's agreement to visit West Papua
Rabuka, says he will "apologise" to fellow Melanesian leaders later this month after failing to secure agreement from Indonesia to visit its restive West Papua province.
Updated at 11:33 am on 13 August 2024
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Guam and American Samoa get greenlight for Pacific Islands Forum associate membership
"There is widespread support for the membership of Guam and American Samoa...that is the recommendation from [Pacific Islands Forum] foreign ministers."
Updated at 10:06 am on 13 August 2024
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Team Pacific concludes Paris 2024 with one silver
The Olympic Games closed in Paris, with the Pacific only managing one silver thanks to the Fijian men's sevens rugby team, who lost to host France in the final.
Updated at 7:39 pm on 12 August 2024
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The Pacific rugby funding dilemma
Opinion - The lack of finance to support rugby in the islands is the same across most of the so-called rugby developing nations, Iliesa Tora writes.
Updated at 2:30 pm on 12 August 2024
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New Caledonia’s curfew extended until 19 August
New Caledonia's curfew, which was imposed days after violent unrest broke out on 13 May, has been extended until 19 August, the French High commission said on Friday.
Updated at 2:04 pm on 12 August 2024
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NZ gives more than $6 million to support 'resilient and prosperous Marshall Islands'
The $6.2 m project is aimed at boosting cooperation between the two nations and making island communities more resilient, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says.
Updated at 2:04 pm on 12 August 2024
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Can overseas workers boost Pacific prosperity?
Analysis - As Pacific Island nations navigate their way out of pandemic debt, work abroad schemes could help, Paresh Narayan and Bernard Iyke write.
Updated at 12:54 pm on 12 August 2024
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Pacific news in brief for August 12
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the relocation of the PNG Defence Force.
Updated at 10:35 am on 12 August 2024
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Vanuatu leader talks marijuana, seasonal workers and cyclones in New Zealand
Charlot Salwai was in Aotearoa for an official visit this week, where he met his counterpart Christopher Luxon for bilateral talks on labour mobility, climate change, Pacific regionalism.
Updated at 8:16 am on 12 August 2024
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Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia
The three-person Pacific leaders mission to New Caledonia is expected to happen prior to the Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga on 26 August, PIF chair Mark Brown says.
Updated at 2:11 pm on 10 August 2024
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French Pacific news in brief
A round-up of news in brief from the French Pacific region, including baby's body found on a Nouméa beach, Qantas resumes flights to Nouméa, and Tahiti's judge's tower will be dismantled.
Updated at 2:01 pm on 10 August 2024
