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Grand finalists set for High School Basketball
Solomon Star
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July 9, 2025
The finalists for the 2025 Advance Technologies High School Basketball Competition have been confirmed following a series of intense semi-final clashes on Sunday. In the boys’ division, defending champions Honiara Senior High School booked their...
A torpedoed US Navy ship escaped the Pacific in reverse, using coconut logs. Its sunken bow has just been found
CNN
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July 9, 2025
CNN — (CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. More than 80 years ago, the crew of the USS New Orleans, having been hit...
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
Foreign Policy
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July 8, 2025
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...
Lincoln County students, Yachats volunteer add 'Yaquina Neversink' to worldwide fleet of tiny research vessels
KLCC - Oregon
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November 30, 2024
This story was originally published on YachatsNews.com and is used with permission. Daniel Roeser admits there may have been a time or two this summer when his work helping assemble a five-foot-long autonomous miniboat felt a bit like drudgery....
Challenging Future For Children In 2050 Transformed By Extreme Climate Crises, Population Shifts, And Tech Disparities
Scoop
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Saturday, 30 November 2024, 11:07 pm Press Release: UNICEF NEW YORK/SUVA, 20 November 2024 – The future of childhood hangs in the balance if urgent action is not taken to safeguard children’s rights in a changing world, UNICEF warned in its...
National Geographic Scientists Discover ‘World’s Largest’ Coral–Size of 5 Tennis Courts
Good News Network
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November 18, 2024
Courtesy of Manu San Félix / National Geographic Pristine Seas (cropped) On an expedition to the Solomon Islands, divers affiliated with National Geographic have found the world’s largest single coral colony ever recorded. It’s longer than the...
SINM staff learn from Archaeological research project
Solomon Star
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November 12, 2024
SOLOMON Islands National Museum (SINM) staffers have learned a lot from the ‘Prehistory of the Solomon Islands’, a15-year Archaeology Research Project conducted in parts of Malaita, Central Islands and Guadalcanal Province. This archaeological...
New science lab for RC Nicholson College
Solomon Star
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November 15, 2024
It was a moment of celebration and recognition of the partnership and commitment between the governments of Australia, New Zealand, and Solomon Islands in the creation and construction of a new science laboratory at Reginald Chapman (RC) Nicholson...
world 'It's extraordinary': Scientists discover world's largest coral grown over 3 centuries
Asiaone
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November 14, 2024
SINGAPORE — Scientists say they have discovered the world's largest coral in the remote Solomon Islands and that it is thriving, despite corals in tropical regions increasingly under threat from global warming. Measuring 34m wide, 32m long and...
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See Staggering Photos of the World's Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean
Smithsonian Magazine
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A diver swims alongside the world’s largest coral colony, located in the Solomon Islands. Manu San Félix / National Geographic Pristine Seas Researchers have made a gargantuan discovery that’s as large as two basketball courts, visible from space,...
‘It is extraordinary’: Scientists find world’s largest coral grown over three centuries
The Straits Times
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November 14, 2024
SINGAPORE - Scientists say they have discovered the world’s largest coral in the remote Solomon Islands and that it is thriving, despite corals in tropical regions increasingly under threat from global warming. Measuring 34m wide, 32m long and...
Witness to History: Chinese scholars' deepened research on PICs underscores growing ties
Global Times
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Teachers at the Pacific Island Countries Research Center at Liaocheng University conduct research in Isabel Province in the Solomon Islands, in January 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Chen Dezheng Editor's Note: As the relations between China and Pacific...
World's largest coral discovered by scientists in Pacific Ocean
GEO TV
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November 14, 2024
Scientists have discovered the largest coral ever recorded in the south west Pacific Ocean and described it to be bigger than a blue whale. The mega coral, a combination of several connected tiny creatures that together form one organism rather...
New Research Finds Children In Asia-Pacific Suffer Mentally And Physically Due To Climate Change
Scoop
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Monday, 18 November 2024, 10:15 am Press Release: World Vision New child-led research canvassing the views of more than 2,500 children and young people in the Asia-Pacific region highlights the worsening impact of climate change on their lives....
Concept of ecological civilization 'inspiring'
People's Daily Online
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By Hou Liqiang and Yang Jun in Guiyang (China Daily) 08:45, July 08, 2025 This photo taken on July 5, 2025 shows a sign of the Eco Forum Global Guiyang 2025 in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province. [Photo/Xinhua] China's concept of...
SINU proud to support professional growth of school leaders
The Islandsun
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June 27, 2025
BY INDY MAEALASIA THE country’s own Solomon Islands National University (SINU) says it is proud to contribute to the professional and academic growth of educational leaders. Addressing dozens of school principals attending the School Principal...
Forau highlights importance of research for policy development
Solomon Star
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November 9, 2024
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI), Dr Luke Forau has emphasized the crucial role of research in supporting the development of government policies. Dr Forau was speaking at the opening of the inaugural CBSI–Asian...
Improving care for people with dementia through co-creation of action plans in the Western Pacific region
British Medical Journal
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Emily Tan Tan Ong, board member with lived experience12, Satoko Hotta, professor3, Dy Suharya, Asia Pacific regional director4, Chris Lynch, deputy chief executive4, Katrin Seeher, mental health specialist5 1Patient representative, Alzheimer’s...
Witness to History: Chinese scholars' deepened research on PICs underscores growing ties
Global Times
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Teachers at the Pacific Island Countries Research Center at Liaocheng University conduct research in Isabel Province in the Solomon Islands, in January 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Chen Dezheng Editor's Note: As the relations between China and Pacific...
Minister of Public Service attends UN Forum
The Islandsun
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June 26, 2025
BY LORETTA B MANELE Minister of Public Service, Francis Sade has represented Solomon Islands at the 2025 United Nations Public Service Forum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. According to a press statement from his ministry, the forum was held from June...