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Operation Rai Balang 2025: FFA Members Hunt For Illegal Fishing Across 14 Million Square Kilometres Of Ocean
Scoop
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HONIARA, 21 MAR 2025 – Illegal fishing across 14 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean faced a strong crackdown during Operation Rai Balang 2025 (OPRB25) that concluded this afternoon. Twelve Members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries...
Sunk Costs: Shipwrecks and the Urgent Need for the Nairobi Convention
The Maritime Executive
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[By Sheridan Ward] It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the last decade, a global...
Cool roofs to combat extreme heat in India
Oman Observer
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March 10, 2025
Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as the hottest time of year approaches. The effort,...
Slums in India get ‘cool roofs’ to combat extreme heat
ARY News
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March 10, 2025
AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India’s western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as the hottest time of year approaches. The...
Indian slums get ‘cool roofs’ to combat extreme heat
Business Recorder
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March 10, 2025
AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India’s western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating over the last two months to try to keep their occupants cooler as the hottest time of year approaches. The...
Leadership or lip service? Australia's unkept climate promises hurting the Pacific
ColyPoint Observer
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December 6, 2024
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, established in 2019, aims to "accelerate a transition to renewable energy for everyone, end the expansion of coal, oil and gas, and equitably phase out existing production in keeping with what science...
Pacific news in brief for 6 March
RNZ
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March 6, 2025
The Republic of Nauru Photo: AFP Nauru - mining Nauru's president has used the Trump administration's pause in aid to highlight his hopes for deep sea mining. Pacific leaders have met in Fiji to discuss deep-sea mining, a potential economic avenue...
World’s largest coral discovered in Solomon Islands
Voice of America
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November 14, 2024
Washington — National Geographic scientists say they’ve discovered the world’s largest coral near the remote Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean — an undersea mass that is so big, it can be seen from space. The man who found it, Manu San Felix,...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – Feb. 28–Mar. 6, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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March 6, 2025
Political Leadership, Regionalism, Peace and Security Samoa PM Fiame survives second vote of no confidence (PMN) Pacific Islands Forum SG stresses unity and accountability at RMI Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day (PACNEWS) Vanuatu PM calls for...
14 Pacific Island countries receive a major grant to manage 1/3rd of the world’s tuna
Samoa News
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February 24, 2025
Suva, Fiji — A transformative US$107 million grant has been secured by Conservation International and the Pacific Community (SPC) to support 14 Pacific Island countries to safeguard the economic and social benefits they receive from tuna against...
Fitness is rooted in traditional CHamoru life
The Guam Daily Post
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I recently saw the statue of Chief Gadao along the beachside of Inalåhan Bay. I saw the statue of Chief Matapang at Hagåtña before Typhoon Mawar. According to the statues, both of the respected chieftains were very fit. It seems our island’s great...
Building strong foundations: supporting teachers in the Pacific to assess, report and track student readiness
Pacific Community (SPC)
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The critical role of school readiness has been in the center of attention as a foundation step in lifelong learning and success. While there is a long history of research on school readiness, defining it as a unifying concept taking into account...
Continuing hysteria in NZ over Cook Islands’ deal with China
World Socialist Web Site
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March 3, 2025
The New Zealand political and media establishment continued to ratchet up tensions with the Cook Islands over the past week, as more details were released about the small Pacific country’s recent agreement with China. Cook Islands Prime Minister...
SI successfully chaired 58th PIDC meeting in Samoa
Solomon Star
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March 13, 2025
The Solomon Islands successfully Chaired the 58th Pacific Immigration Development Community (PIDC) Board Meeting early this month. The meeting was convened on the 3rd – 4th March 2025 in Apia, Samoa. The Board Meeting was successfully succeeded by...
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Lace bug release in Vanuatu to combat hibiscus bur
SunLive
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July 29, 2024
Researchers from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research are undertaking the first global release of a lace bug species in Vanuatu at the end of July to combat the invasive hibiscus bur (Urena lobata ) shrub. The hibiscus bur lace bug (Haedus vicarius)...
Solomon Islands successfully chaired 58th PIDC Meeting in Samoa
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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March 12, 2025
Sponsored The Solomon Islands successfully Chaired the 58th Pacific Immigration Development Community (PIDC) Board Meeting convened on the 3rd – 4th March 2025 in Apia, Samoa. The Board Meeting was successfully succeeded by the PIDC strategic plan...
14 Pacific Island countries receive a major grant to manage one third of the world’s tuna in the face of the climate crisis
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Fololina Avia, received an ADB funded small business grant to expand her "Lady Edwina" fishing company and stall at the Apia fish market. Copyright Asian Development Bank/ Flickr Creative Commons The programme, with a total value of US$156.8 M –...
SPTO and PNG Tourism Promotion Authority release Key Findings from International Visitor Survey
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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March 11, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), through its Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI) and in collaboration with the Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTPA), has published the 2024 Papua New Guinea Annual IVS Report from the...
Foursquare Statistics – Usage, Market Share, Facts and Trend
Hollywood Gazette
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August 11, 2024
Technology is changing the world by means of portable devices a human can carry into his pocket. Mobile phones, tablets, and I-watches are replacements for laptops and PCs. Various app developers are making life easier, allowing us to order food...
Noro Community High School students off to Japan
The Islandsun
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March 11, 2025
Noro Community High School will be representing Solomon Islands at the 2024 JENESYS Program. The composition of the delegation consists of five year eleven (11) students and one (1) supervising staff. The delegation will leave on Tuesday 11th...