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Lost at sea: How Tuvalu’s plight holds lessons for the future
The Interpreter
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June 22, 2025
What happens when a country ceases to exist? Where do its people go, who no longer have a citizenship to protect them? Statelessness usually follows conflict, or the dissolution or unification of a country, such as occurred with the Soviet Union,...
Judge Brown highlights legal duty to address IUU
The Islandsun
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June 25, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has highlighted legal duty as one tool for addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific region. A press...
China irks NZ as its influence spreads in the South Pacific
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
World News | China Irks NZ as Its Influence Spreads in the South Pacific
Latestly
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
ITLOS Judge Highlights Legal Duty To Strengthen Fisheries Enforcement At Judicial Symposium
Scoop
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HONIARA, 20 JUNE 2025 – As the Judicial Symposium 2025 wraps up today in Honiara, one of the standout moments of the three-day gathering was the keynote address delivered by Honourable. Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for...
From deterrence to disarmament
Nepali Times
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June 22, 2025
22 June 2025Katsuhiro Asagiri in Santa Barbara Marking 80 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, peace advocates, diplomats, educators, and atomic bomb survivors from around the world gathered for the ‘Choose Hope’ Symposium recently in Santa...
Dmakeiukl Rangers begin drone training to strengthen conservation efforts in Palau
Island Times
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June 20, 2025
On June 6, rangers from the Dmakeiukl Alliance took part in a hands-on drone training to enhance the monitoring and protection of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in Palau. The training is part of a broader effort to strengthen the rangers’...
Pacific relationship will ‘remain constant’: Peters
Otago Daily Times
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June 22, 2025
Few people are as well placed to comment on the shifting sands of international politics in the South Pacific as Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who is about to address the Otago Foreign Policy School on that topic. Political editor Mike Houlahan...
New Zealand halts aid to Cook Islands over China deals
The Manila Times
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June 19, 2025
WELLINGTON — New Zealand's government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China. New Zealand "paused" the payments and would not resume them until the Cook...
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New Zealand halts millions of dollars in aid to Cook Islands over deals with China
Firstpost
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June 19, 2025
The self-governing Cook Islands, a country of 17,000 people, has a “free association” relationship with its former colonial ruler New Zealand, which provides budgetary assistance as well as help on foreign affairs and defence read more New...
NZ’s furious act towards tiny island nation
The Geelong Advertiser
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June 19, 2025
New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China. New Zealand “paused” the payments and would not resume them until the Cook Islands took...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...
From Deterrence to Disarmament: Global Advocates Call for Justice and Peace
Inter Press Service
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June 19, 2025
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, Peace, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Chie Sunada of SGI (left) moderates the first panel discussion, “From...
Soccer milestone for RMI
Marshall Islands Journal
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June 19, 2025
KAREN EARNSHAW Five years ago the Marshall Islands Soccer Federation received a huge boost in the form of a small group of British soccer fans and experts who had discovered that the Marshall Islands was “the last nation on Earth without a...
Shared Seas, Shared Future: Africa’s strategic role in Global Ocean Protection
Daily News Tanzania
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June 12, 2025
ON June 18th 2023, a submissible called Titan, operated by Ocean gate expeditions, became global breaking news when it tragically imploded, about 4000 metres below the North Atlantic Ocean surface, during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, that...
Judicial Symposium 2025 Opens in Honiara
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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June 18, 2025
HONIARA, 19 JUNE 2025 – Judicial Officers across the Pacific and international fisheries legal experts are gathering in Honiara over a three (3) days Symposium. This marks yet another significant regional event co-hosted by the Honourable Chief...
Matariki celebrated with events across London
1News
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Matariki is being celebrated on the other side of the world to the Pacific, with educational and performance events taking place in London. Storytelling workshops are being held at the National Maritime Museum in the afternoon Friday (local time)...
Chief Justice Palmer opens Judicial Symposium 2025
The Islandsun
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June 19, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Chief Justice of Solomon Islands Sir Albert R. Palmer opened the Judicial Symposium 2025 at the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Conference Centre in Honiara yesterday. The three-day Judicial Symposium is being co-hosted by the...
The Key Role of Journalists in Amplifying Women’s Issues by SPC Mereseini Rakuita, Principal Strategic Lead – Pacific Women and Girls
Pacific Community (SPC)
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"Two in every three Fijian women experience some form of violence in their lifetime from their spouse or partner… Two in three... That could be you. The woman sitting beside you. Someone in your newsroom. In your family. In your village. You, as...
The Pacific Islands: America’s Power Vacuum and China’s Offensive
The Diplomat
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June 17, 2025
The United States has traditionally provided significant assistance to Pacific island countries. Many of these countries and regions still use the U.S. dollar as their currency and, absent their own armed forces, rely on the U.S. military for...