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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...
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...
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 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...
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 UN Ocean Conference
Matangi Tonga Online
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June 11, 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 Oceans Conference in Nice, France...
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...
‘Survival’ at stake as Vanuatu uses ocean summit to press IC...
Modern Ghana
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Vanuatu is using this week's UN Ocean Conference in Nice to demand climate justice ahead of a landmark legal opinion from the world's top court – with climate minister Ralph Regenvanu telling RFI that faster action to hold big polluters...
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,...
Foreign Minister Focuses On Pacific Resilience During Visit To France
Scoop
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Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has taken part in two major international events in Nice, France this week, focused on Pacific resilience, prosperity and security. The sixth Pacific-France Summit,...
Ocean With David Attenborough: The Untold Story In Our Exclusive Interview
Innovation & Tech Today
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June 5, 2025
As the world prepares to celebrate World Ocean Day, National Geographic is making waves with the premiere of Ocean with David Attenborough—a feature documentary debuting June 7th on National Geographic and streaming globally the next day on...
‘Our Ocean is our heritage, our home and our future’
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Copyright: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Monitoring and Governance As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) gets underway in Nice France, Samoa’s Prime...
Starlink is transforming Pacific internet access – but in some countries it’s still illegal
The Conversation
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June 9, 2025
In the past few years, Starlink’s satellite internet service has become available across much of the Pacific. This has created new challenges for regulators in Pacific Island countries: some have promoted Starlink while others have banned it. What...
Pacific Islands focus: health sovereignty, polio outbreak and regional relationships
Croakey Health Media
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June 9, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: As we wait to hear whether Australia will co-host COP31 climate negotiations next year with Pacific Islands nations, Vanuatu’s climate minister Ralph Regenvanu has expressed disappointment about the Federal Government’s...
Pacific Tourism Organisation and FSM Yap Visitors Bureau Release Key Insights from International Visitor Survey
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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June 9, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)Yap Visitors Bureau (YVB) through the Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI), has released its latest International Visitor Survey (IVS) report...
Nikita fulfils childhood ambition
Samoa Observer
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The first in her family to attend university, Law and Arts graduate Nikita Sionetali-Tuitea had dreamed of becoming a lawyer since her primary school days. The University of Auckland graduate crossed the stage last month, receiving a conjoint...