Late last week, a proposed security treaty between China and a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific sent shock waves across the ocean.

A draft security cooperation agreement, between China and Solomon Islands, has been leaked on social media.

The Samoa Government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 in the community.

The Kingdom of Tonga is to go into a five-day lockdown from Wednesday night as COVID-19 begins to spread in the community.

Kiribati has recorded its highest daily increase in new COVID infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive cases to 629.

The Kiribati Government has extended its state of disaster by another month as the remote Pacific Island nation’s COVID-19 infections climbs to almost 400.

A 57-year-old Tongan man being hailed a real-life Aquaman for surviving 27 hours at sea.

Tonga faces a long road to recovery, with most of the population affected by the violent eruption and tsunami that followed, and many areas still scrambling to restore basic necessities.

Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has announced a full lockdown for the island nation from Saturday night after a further five passengers on a direct flight from Brisbane tested positive for COVID-19.

The first foreign aid planes have arrived in Tonga, bearing much-needed supplies for the Pacific nation which was left devastated by a volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami on Saturday.

New Zealand and Australian aid planes and ships are due to arrive in Tonga carrying much-needed supplies for the disaster-struck nation.

Teams are working desperately to clear ash from Tonga’s main airport runway in an effort to get vital supplies to the region following a volcanic eruption.