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Key Outcomes of the Honiara Summit
Pacific News Service
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The Honiara Summit, hosted by the Government of the Solomon Islands and organised together with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the Pacific Community (SPC), and...
Combining local wisdom with scientific methods
The Islandsun
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March 8, 2025
By Loretta B Manele Combining local wisdom with scientific methods is said to be key in creating a framework for better outputs. Rhea Moss-Christian, Executive Director for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) spoke about...
Unprecedented pressure and resilience in Pacific media sector, new research reveals
Pacific News Service
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Despite progress in the Pacific’s media sector, new research reveals it remains fragile due to digital disruption and continued loss of advertising revenue following the COVID-19 pandemic. The State of the Media: Pacific research study involved...
Tulagi Hospital Improvement Project boosts Solomon Islands healthcare
Hospital Management
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November 4, 2024
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services, in partnership with the World Bank, has launched the Tulagi Hospital Improvement Project and a new incinerator facility at a handover ceremony, according to SIBC News. The new incinerator facility will...
8 graduate from Chinese Universities
Solomon Star
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July 4, 2025
Eight Solomon Islands students have recently graduated from various universities across China in June 2025. On Friday, 20th June, the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Barrett Salato, attended the graduation...
National Geographic Pristine Seas brings scientific and filmmaking capabilities in Solomon Islands expedition
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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October 22, 2024
More than 15 scientists and filmmakers begin an expedition last week to study the health of the Solomon Islands’ Ocean environments, from shallow reefs to the deep sea. The month-long expedition — a partnership between National Geographic Pristine...
Solomon Islands issue license to Starlink
Islands Business
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August 30, 2024
As the oceans face devastating change from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, Pacific governments are preparing for the Third United Nations Ocean Conference, to be held in France in June 2025. Speaking on the sidelines of this...
Fiji pushes for science-backed marine conservation
FBC News
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March 2, 2025
[Source: Fiji Government/Facebook] Pacific leaders gathered in Honiara to address the escalating threats to the region’s fisheries. Overfishing, climate change, illegal fishing and pollution continue to harm ocean health and undermine livelihoods...
New Coronation poll finds lead for republic in Solomon Islands- PNG and Tuvalu would vote to stay with the crown
Pacific News Service
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More voters in the Solomon Islands would choose a republic in a referendum tomorrow than would stay with the Crown, according to new research from Lord Ashcroft Polls – while most in Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu say they would vote for their...
Bishop Norman Palmer School science lab reopens after renovation
Solomon Star
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March 3, 2025
AFTER several years of being out of use due to termite infestation, the Science Laboratory at Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM)-owned Bishop Norman Palmer Anglican School in East Honiara, has been renovated and is back in service. The...
Logging marriages 'like instant coffee' in Solomon Islands, with girls 'sold' into relationships
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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October 18, 2024
Flying across the hundreds of islands that make up Solomon Islands, it's almost impossible not to see them. Patches of muddy and desolate ground in an otherwise lush and pristine green forest. They are logging zones, and in Solomon Islands they...
Stronger Fisheries Governance Discussed at Honiara Summit
Solomon Times
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February 26, 2025
Pacific Leaders highlighted the need for collective action to implement sustainable fisheries policies, improve stock management, and ensure food security for Pacific communities. The second day of the Honiara Summit discussions centred on...
5.0-magnitude quake hits Solomon Islands -- GFZ
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Solomon Islands at 0141 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 6.68...
Movers & Shakers: Victoria’s childcare system reviewers, Jones to the OECD
The Mandarin
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July 10, 2025
DCCEEW secretary revealed, DAFF secretary takes IPAA ACT presidency, NSW appoints Safe Work commissioner, latest ambassadors get postings. Senior Executive Service Band 2 The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has...
PM opens Honiara summit 2025, urges foreign members to safeguard blue Pacific continent
The Islandsun
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February 26, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele officially opened the Honiara Summit 2025 at the Friendship Hall yesterday morning. Delivering his keynote address, Manele welcomed heads of government, the Secretary-General and Special Envoy on...
Conference unites 15 Pacific universities
The National
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THE Pacific Islands Universities Regional Network (PIURN) conference brought together 15 member universities from the Pacific Island countries and Territories to the PNG University of Technology in Lae, Morobe. PIURN coordinator Mathilde Souchon,...
20 highest risk vessel wreckages in Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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October 13, 2024
There are 20 very high environmentally risky shipwrecks in Solomon Islands, it was revealed. The revelation was made during the recent ‘Strengthening Marine Pollution Incident Resilience in the Pacific Islands’ last week. In his presentation, the...
FAMIL: With destinations jaded by overtourism, the Solomon Islands offers a chance to build differently
Travel Weekly
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Speaking to the acting CEO of Tourism Solomons, Dagnal Dereveke, one thing is abundantly clear: the Solomon Islands is not trying to be something it is not. When I ask the obvious question, ‘How does the Solomon Islands compare to its Pacific...
Japan disappointed by Solomon Islands PM Sogavare’s statement at UNGA
Pacific News Service
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Japan has expressed its disappointment on Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare’s statement at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week against the discharge of the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) treated water....
Scientists in Bali find what could be the world’s largest coral colony
Mongabay
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December 17, 2024
When a massive coral colony was recently discovered in the Solomon Islands, it was believed to be the largest in the world. Then last week, scientists found an even bigger one in the waters off the Indonesian island of Bali. Coral restoration...