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Pacific Islands News Roundup – June 20 – June 26, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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June 28, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Books that bring the plantation to life
Borneo Post
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June 29, 2025
After spending over three decades in the plantation industry, I’ve come across a handful of books that didn’t just inform me, they inspired me. These aren’t just pages filled with facts and anecdotes; they’re stories that speak directly to the...
FFA Director General welcomes judicial symposium participants
The Islandsun
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June 19, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Director General Noan Pakop has welcomed chief justices, high court judges and international fisheries legal experts for the Judicial Symposium 2025 currently underway in Honiara. The symposium brings...
World's soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea
Phys.org
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June 24, 2025
On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've learned just about everything about them by now....
The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court
Rolling Stone
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June 27, 2025
There is no English equivalent for the word the women of Yakel use to describe the shame they feel when they are unable to carry out their customary duties. It is not exactly embarrassment. It is not simply sorrow. It is something deeper — a...
Why the UN Ocean Conference 2025 Was Make-or-Break for Marine Protected Areas
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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June 24, 2025
The 2025 UN Ocean Conference put Marine Protected Areas at the heart of global ocean action, but global progress hinges on whether the United States steps up to lead. From June 9–13, Nice, France, hosted the third United Nations Ocean Conference,...
Story of the world’s first digital money
The National
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DID you know that someone once bought two pizzas for over K1 billion? It sounds crazy but it’s a true story — and it’s the beginning of something big: Bitcoin, the first-ever digital currency. Today, we hear about Bitcoin, USDT, ETH, Ripple, T4G...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
Pacific leaders call for peace amid Middle East tensions as Melanesia eyes regional solidarity
Pacific Media Network
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Pacific leaders have voiced their worries about the ongoing political unrest around the world, especially the conflicts involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. The concerns were shared during a meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group...
Building resilient education systems: Shifting from deficit-driven to strengths-based approaches to resilience
Pacific Community (SPC)
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In recent years, education systems around the globe have grappled with unprecedented disruptions, ranging from pandemics and natural disasters to climate change, political instability, wars, and migration. These challenges have exposed the...
China in the Pacific – Joint statement of the Third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
The Fiji Times
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June 26, 2025
FROM May 28 to 29, 2025, the People’s Republic of China and Pacific Island Countries having diplomatic relations with China (hereinafter referred to as “All parties”) held the third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The...
Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
Ports key to economic growth:PNG Ports
The National
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PNG Ports Corporation managing director Neil Papenfus says ports are the gateways to economic growth. Papenfus said during the 40th Australia-PNG Business Forum in Port Moresby yesterday that under the 30-year Port Infrastructure Master Plan,...
8 ultra-luxury cruise holidays worth splurging on
The New Zealand Herald
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June 26, 2025
Circumnavigation of Antarctica | Ponant Be part of history aboard one of the world’s most modern and luxurious icebreakers as it makes a ground (and ice) breaking journey. Departing from Ushuaia in January 2028, Le Commandant Charcot will spend 30...
Newborn screening project for congenital hypothyroidism at NRH launched
Solomon Star
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June 24, 2025
The National Referral Hospital (NRH) and collaborative partners launched on 12th June, the Newborn Screening Project for Congenital Hypothyroidism. It is a milestone for Newborn Screening and a crucial step towards ensuring the health and...
Deseret News archives: Of the 4 Borgstrom brothers, ‘To them belongs page of history’
Deseret News - Utah
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June 26, 2025
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 26, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. All who serve in the military deserve our sincere gratitude. Those families who have wonderful...
Rarely seen endemic Mariana butterflyfish captured on video
Marianas Variety
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Mariana butterflyfish APRA, Guam — Last month, during Ocean Exploration Trust’s exploration of Ahyi Seamount (a shallow submarine volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Corps of Exploration aboard exploration vessel...
“ASAN Khidmet" joins UN Public Service Forum 2025
Azertag
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June 25, 2025
Baku, June 25, AZERTAC An Azerbaijani delegation led by Jeyhun Salmanov, Deputy Chairman of the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, participated in the United Nations (UN)...
Fiji and Japan sign agreement on project for improving cyber security capability in the Pacific
Fijivillage
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Fiji and Japan sign agreement on project for improving cyber security capability in the Pacific Permanent Secretary of Policing Berenado Daveta and JICA Fiji Office Resident Representative Satoshi Wakasugi signed an agreement on the record of...
Kumul Consolidated Holdings MD details SOE reforms and privatization efforts
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 25, 2025
Professor David Kavanamur, Managing Director of Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KCH), today presented an update on the progress and strategic direction of Papua New Guinea’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) during the State Owned Enterprise Roundtable...