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Niue, the tiny island selling the sea to save it from destru...
Modern Ghana
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On a remote raised coral atoll in the South Pacific, the tiny island nation of Niue is quietly protecting one of the world's most ambitious marine reserves. While global leaders at the UN oceans gathering in Nice debate how to scale up efforts to...
BEN MORGAN: Iran. A win for the US?
The Daily Blog
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June 24, 2025
Holy shit look at what NZDF could have been like: Detail structure and equipment for a NZ Defence Force in 2030 if military spending had been constant at 5% GDP since 2015 ChatGPT said: If New Zealand had maintained military spending at 5% of GDP...
Fiji and Japan sign agreement on project for improving cyber security capability in the Pacific
Fijivillage
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Fiji and Japan sign agreement on project for improving cyber security capability in the Pacific Permanent Secretary of Policing Berenado Daveta and JICA Fiji Office Resident Representative Satoshi Wakasugi signed an agreement on the record of...
‘The Pacific Islands!’ Dahlia Malaeulu’s favourite place to read
The Spinoff
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June 24, 2025
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Dahlia Malaeulu, publisher at the award-winning Mila’s Books, and author of Mataali’i, which is finalist for the...
Melanesian Spearhead Group discusses Middle East conflict - Marape
RNZ
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June 23, 2025
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says the Middle East conflict was discussed at the recently-concluded Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) meeting, Photo: Fiji Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Facebook Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James...
Harmony at the International Day of Yoga celebration at USP Samoa
Talamua
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June 22, 2025
By Dwayne Mahimkar* Apia, Samoa – 23 June 2025 – Samoa is among the first in the world to celebrate the 11th International Day of Yoga, held at the USP Samoa campus in Alafua early Saturday morning. Around 30+ people partook in this year’s Yoga...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
New Zealand: Digital Innovation Powers Maritime Navigation
OpenGov Asia
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June 19, 2025
The New Zealand Government is making a significant move to modernise its maritime infrastructure through the largest upgrade to navigation services in more than 30 years. With NZ$ 28.6 million allocated in Budget 2025, this investment focuses on...
Regional collaboration enhances Lower Secondary Assessment tools
Pacific Community (SPC)
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With the dawn of a new decade in 2020, Pacific assessment experts united to ensure that quality assessment papers are collaboratively created and based on statistical evidence. Since then, the Pacific Community (SPC) has played its custodian role...
Largest Maritime Navigation System Upgrade In Decades
Scoop
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Hon Chris Penk Minister for Land Information Hon James Meager Associate Minister for Transport The Government is making New Zealand more attractive to international shipping lines with the first major investment in navigation services in more than...
What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
Climate Home News
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June 17, 2025
The 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change famously does not name the controversial root cause of the very problem it is intended to solve: fossil fuels. In the year of its 10th anniversary, Gillian Cooper, political director of the Fossil...
Pacific media freedom:an update on rankings
The National
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Media freedom is a crucial element of a functioning democracy. In the Pacific Islands, media freedom levels differ. This post analyses is the latest media freedom rankings for Pacific nations and suggests two ways the re-elected Albanese...
Pacific Leaders Rally For Climate-Resilient Fisheries At Third UN Ocean Conference
Scoop
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NICE, FRANCE, 11 JUNE 2025 – Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent global action to protect the world’s largest tuna production region from the accelerating impacts of climate change. This message was reinforced at the 3rd UN...
Honouring Tukuitonga: New era of leadership in Pacific health at the Auckland University
Pacific Media Network
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Health leader and Pacific advocate, Sir Collin Tukuitonga, says Aotearoa New Zealand is facing a “terrible” political environment that “clearly attacks equity and fairness”. He urges academics, researchers, and the Pasifika community to continue...
King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List – Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
The Daily Blog
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June 2, 2025
The New Zealand Order of Merit DNZM To be Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Ms Ranjna Patel, ONZM, QSM, JP For services to ethnic communities, health and family violence prevention Emeritus Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart,...
Nations vow to cut shipping noise as sea life struggles to b...
Modern Ghana
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Marine mammals struggling to feed their young are abandoning key habitats as underwater noise from human activity grows louder – a threat that's now been recognised by dozens of countries in an international push for quieter oceans. At the UN...
Te Ipukarea Society: The ocean is our life
Cook Island News
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June 14, 2025
The Story Plus Activity Guides is available from the TIS website. TIS/ 25061350 As Oceans Week draws to a close, we celebrate that nearly 40 countries are now calling for a moratorium on Deep-sea Mining (DSM). Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) president,...
King's Birthday 2025 Honours List
Scoop
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The New Zealand Order of Merit DNZM To be Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Ms Ranjna Patel, ONZM, QSM, JP For services to ethnic communities, health and family violence prevention Emeritus Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart,...
King’s Birthday Honours 2025: The full list - knights, dames and all other recipients
The New Zealand Herald
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June 1, 2025
Emeritus Distinguished Professor Alison Stewart, CNZM, for services to plant science and the arable sector Catriona Ruth Williams, MNZM, for services to spinal cord injury research and equestrian sport Knights Companion (KNZM) Mark Leslie Smith...
Advocate to restore citizenship (Western Samoa ) Act 1982 amongst Pacific peoples recognised in King’s Honours List 2025
TP+
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June 1, 2025
Kings Honours List 2025. Pasifika people are among the 88 recipients who have been recognised for the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List, for their service and contribution to the country. Congratulations goes to: Member of the New Zealand Order of...