A report has found that Papua New Guinea’s daily newspapers often displayed a “deference” to the office of prime minister in their stories.

Vanuatu Health authorities have another challenge to deal with after a local outbreak of malaria in Sola, which is in the northern province of Torba following Tropical Cyclone Harold.

Pacific islanders living in the United States have an infection rate two to three times the average in at least four American states.

Papua New Guinea has reported its eighth confirmed case of COVID-19, in Eastern Highlands province.

The Covid-19 stimulus package passed by Samoa’s Parliament last week may have come too late for some hotels and their workers.

There’s been no communication from the Vanuatu islands hardest hit by the powerful Tropical Cyclone Harold.

Cyclone Harold, the most powerful storm in the Pacific in at least two years, has made landfall on the Vanuatu island of Santo, with winds gusting as high as 235km/h.

Dozens of people are reportedly missing at sea in Solomon Islands after a passenger ferry ignored maritime warnings and embarked on an island crossing during Cyclone Harold.

The Solomon Islands government has extended a school closure notice, previously only for institutions in the capital Honiara and Guadalcanal, to the rest of the country.

There has been another confirmed Covid-19 infection in French Polynesia, raising the total to 35.

It’s the first recorded death from COVID-19 in the Papua region and adds to fears that a looming surge in cases could overwhelm the health system on both sides of New Guinea.

The Australian High Commission in Solomon Islands has issued a notice advising any Australian intending to return home that today will be the last commercial Solomon Airlines flight to Brisbane for a while.