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Pacific celebrates the voices of women in fisheries at the Fisheries...
Pacific News Service
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Women working behind the scenes across the Pacific fisheries sector were celebrated in Niue last night, as the latest edition of Moana Voices was honoured during the opening ceremony of the 24th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Pacific Tourism Organisation Releases Tourism Data Reports in Cooperation with Tourism Solomons
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 22, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with Tourism Solomons and with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture (MTC) and the Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO), released the completed 2024 International...
Honouring the legacy of cultural icon, the late Nancy Kareroa-Yorke
Cook Island News
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August 9, 2025
Nancy Kareroa-Yorke (far left) with some of her students. Next to her is one of her students, who joined the group at the age of seven. The young dancer is now 23 years old. “Her (Nancy's) legacy lives on in her young dancers.” 25080615 A...
With Five Eyes on China, FBI Bulks Up in New Zealand
Consortium News
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August 7, 2025
Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency’s Wellington operation to “counter the CCP” as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific. Demonstrators in Aukland on Saturday protest against the F.B.I. expanding its...
Film aims to inspire 'queer' Pacific youth to confidently embrace their true selves
Pacific Media Network
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A Wellington artist says representation is crucial within the Pacific households, especially for young Pacific queer people. Christopher Ulutupu, of Sāmoan-Niuean descent, says many young queer Pasifika face various challenges growing up. Ulutupu...
Pacific news in brief for 1 July
RNZ
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July 1, 2025
Niue government buildings Photo: RNZ/ Sally Round Niue - budget Health, education, social welfare and government salaries have receives a boost in the Niue government's new NZ$12.5 million (US$7.6m) deficit budget. Last week, the island's finance...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 1 – August 7, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 8, 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,...
Your voice will be heard- opening message at inaugural Pacific
Television Niue
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August 7, 2025
By Gustava Esther Pavihi Thursday 7th August, 2025, Taumeasina– More than twenty young people from across the Pacific are in Samoa this week for the first Pacific Youth Dialogue on Loss and Damage with the theme ‘Providing our Pacific youth with...
Empire In The Antipodes: Why The FBI’s Wellington Office Is A Threat ToAotearoa – Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
The Daily Blog
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August 3, 2025
On 31 July 2025, the FBI officially opened its first standalone office in Aotearoa New Zealand, based in Wellington’s U.S. Embassy. For most of the mainstream media, this development was reported with a mixture of bureaucratic neutrality and mild...
University of Auckland Pathway Supporting Pacific Aspirations
TP+
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August 5, 2025
The third cohort have completed the micro-credential course ‘Improving Wellbeing Outcomes for Pacific Families’. Photo: University of Auckland / Supplied The University of Auckland aims to help grow Pacific leadership through a course supporting...
Meet 25 young people changing Aotearoa and the world
The Spinoff
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July 17, 2025
From poets to Paralympians and policymakers, this year’s YWCA Y25 list celebrates some of Aotearoa’s most inspirational young people Illustrations by Kerilyn Clarke. Every year, the pool of nominees for Y25 grows bigger and stronger. In its six...
Caribbean court strikes down St. Lucia’s anti-homosexuality law
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 29, 2025
Ruling in case of Caribbean island leaves 64 nations with anti-gay laws Kenita Placide, executive director of the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) The number of nations with anti-homosexuality laws dropped to 64 today,...
Eat Pacific Cookbook wins Global Award
Samoa News
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July 9, 2025
LISBON, Portugal — In a celebration of Pacific food, identity, and culture, the Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, Eat Pacific, has been awarded the Best South Pacific Book in the World 2024 at the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards...
Te Teko’s Zena Elliott claims major NZ art award
Te Ao Maori News
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A Te Teko-raised artist has won a major New Zealand art award. Zena Elliott (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Whānau ā Apānui, Ngāti Rangitihi) — who recalls being raised on fruit from neighbours’ trees and liquorice from the local store in the small...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 25 – July 31, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 2, 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,...
Caribbean nation of St. Lucia strikes down its anti-sodomy law
LifeSite
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July 30, 2025
News St. Lucia joins Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Dominica, which in recent years decriminalized consensual homosexual acts. (LifeSiteNews) — The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court struck down St. Lucia’s colonial-era law...
Pacific news in brief for 3 July
RNZ
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July 3, 2025
This handout photograph released by Buckingham Palace on 25 January , 2025, shows Britain's King Charles III, posing for a photograph in the library at Balmoral, Scotland in Autumn 2024. Photo: MILLIE PILKINGTON / AFP Niue - Moana Mahu King...
How Samoa's ballroom scene is uplifting Pacific Rainbow+ youth
Samoa News
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July 24, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On a warm Tuesday night in Fugalei in Apia, Samoa, the air hums with anticipation as a local hall fills with young people. With the Boom Kaisi Ball just days away, Pacific Rainbow+ youth have gathered for a series of...
Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone
Asia Pacific Report
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June 2, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, Iliesa Tora, and Christina Persico A New Zealand-born Niuean educator says being recognised in the King’s Birthday honours list reflects the importance of connecting young tagata Niue in Aotearoa to...