Marshall Islands

Two Marshallese women caught up in an apparent illegal adoption scheme have been stopped at Majuro airport and prevented from travelling to the United States.

Authorities at the Marshall Islands' International Airport have accosted a suspected agent for illegal adoptions while he was trying to board a United Airlines flight last month along with two women…

More than half the countries that remain on a European Union blacklist of tax havens are Pacific Island nations after other states moved to address EU concerns.

The Marshall Islands has de-registered a Taiwan-based company that was linked to fuel sales to North Korea in violation of United Nations sanctions.

The Secretary General of the Marshall Islands Red Cross Society says their admission into the organisation's international body will give the country a greater global voice.

The local Red Cross in the Marshall Islands has been recognised by the International Committee of the Red Cross opening up more opportunities for the country.

An extra one hundred solar street lights including battery replacements have been secured for the Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands has been given a $US34 million dollar grant by the World Bank to help implement its Sustainable Energy Development Project.

The Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine says Pacific women need to be recognised as leaders in mitigating the effects of climate change.

The Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine says the country's former foreign minister Tony de Brum is to be honoured at France's One Planet Summit in Paris.

The Asian Development Bank is to provide a $US2 million grant to help the Marshall Islands increase its renewable electricity generation.

The Marshall Islands Finance Minister says it is unfortunate his nation has been named on an EU tax haven blacklist.

The Marshall Islands has been spared damage from high tides and the effects of the recent supermoon but locals are on alert for next month.

A move by the United States Interior Department to give islanders displaced by US nuclear weapons tests complete control of a multi-million dollar trust fund has sparked a US Senator to intervene to…

A high-level meeting in Rome has warned that climate change poses an "alarming threat to food systems and food security in the Pacific islands."

The sobering statistic that the growth of one in three Marshall Islands children is stunted has propelled government to launch a major effort to improve early childhood nutrition and health.

An academic says Taiwan's supporters in the Pacific can expect significant new aid announcements during a visit by the Taiwanese president. Audio

Officials in the Marshall Islands say about $US1 million was illegally removed from the government's US-based trust fund and only some of it has been recovered.