A major newspaper in Solomon Islands received nearly US$140,000 in funding from the Chinese government.

The French President has told Vanuatu leaders he will provide financial assistance to the country and look into the dispute over two small islands between Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged New Caledonia to forge a common future after the most recent ‘no’ independence vote.

Ash fall from the erupting Mt Bagana in central Bougainville has collapsed a number of traditional houses.

A project has been set up to save a rare French Polynesian bird from extinction.

Vanuatu chiefs have called on its government to ask the visiting French President to acknowledge that the Matthew and Hunter islands belong to them and not to New Caledonia.

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a second summit with the leaders of Pacific island nations in September.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a defence cooperation pact signed with Papua New Guinea on Monday would expand the Pacific island nation’s capabilities and make it easier for the U.S. military to train with its forces.

A tsunami threat has been issued for Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southeast of Loyalty Islands.

The Solomon Islands has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a Chinese state company to upgrade an international port in Honiara in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank, an official of the island nation said on Wednesday.

An Australian university professor has been taken hostage in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has confirmed.