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Fiji Pocket Guide: The Largest and Most Comprehensive Travel Guide to Fiji Relaunched with 800 Updated Articles
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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December 11, 2024
FijiPocketGuide.com, the largest travel guide ever written about Fiji, has been relaunched with a monumental update, now featuring 800 detailed articles covering seven island groups. This extraordinary resource remains completely free for...
The great debate on phones in schools
Sunday Observer
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November 30, 2024
70 The cellular telephone or rather its modern incarnation – the smartphone – has become almost an extension of our body. It is 24/7 with us, giving us updates about our near and dear and also about the wider world. It enables us to do a thousand...
Solomon Islands coral discovery “reinforces” urgent need for global action on…
Pacific News Service
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As COP29 unfolds in Baku, Azerbaijan, with world leaders engaged in critical discussions on climate finance, a groundbreaking discovery in the Solomon Islands serves as a stark reminder of the critical need for urgent action. A team of scientists...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – Nov. 15-20, 2024
Pacific Islands Report
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November 20, 2024
Editor’s Note: As COP29 draws to a close, we are prioritizing stories from the 2050 Strategy’s Climate Change and Disasters and Ocean and Environment thematic areas at the top of this week’s roundup. This temporary adjustment highlights the...
Regional Plant Pathology And Entomology Workshop Enhances Biosecurity Capacity In The Pacific
Scoop
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24 October 2024 Image/SuppliedThe United Nations Food Agriculture Organization estimates that 20 to 40 per cent of annual global crop production is lost to plant pests and diseases. With increased trade and movement across borders, the risk of...
Rarotonga Treaty could be ‘undermined’ if Pacific leaders don’t oppose Japan’s nuclear dump
Pacific News Service
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An international law expert says Pacific leaders, including Australia and New Zealand, could be undermining the objectives of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, otherwise known as the Rarotonga Treaty. Duncan Currie said regional leaders...
Pacific Community calls out urgency of climate Loss and Damage finance for frontline island nations
Pacific Community (SPC)
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This feature is a collaboration between IPS News and the Pacific Community. Written by Catherine Wilson Credit: IPS Advancing development of the new Climate Loss and Damage Fund was a key call by Pacific Island nations at the COP29 United Nations...
Health report reveals challenges in Pacific systems
Pacific Media Network
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A Pacific health leader says underfunding, staffing shortages and the impacts of climate change are significant challenges faced by the sector in the region. Sir Collin Tukuitonga, Director of Te Poutoko Ora A Kiwa (Centre for Pacific and Global...
Pacific Community Calls Out Urgency of Climate Loss and Damage Finance for Frontline Island Nations
Inter Press Service
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December 10, 2024
Asia-Pacific, Climate Change Finance, Climate Change Justice, Conferences, COP29, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, PACIFIC COMMUNITY, Pacific Community Climate Wire,...
The travesty of the ICC warrants
Politicsweb
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December 4, 2024
Thursday, 05 December 2024 05/12/24 OPINION The travesty of the ICC warrants Sara Gon | 04 December 2024 Sara Gon assesses the latest front in the ongoing lawfare against Israel Lawfare against Israel − the travesty of the ICC warrants 4 December...
Plastics treaty negotiations update – Institutional arrangement, preamble, scope and principles
Pacific News Service
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Delegates from Pacific countries have travelled far and wide this week to attend the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment...
China-Taiwan Weekly Update, October 30, 2024
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Editors: Dan Blumenthal and Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute Data Cutoff: October 28, 2024 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The...
Solomon Islands coral discovery “reinforces” urgent need for global action on ocean protection amidst COP29
Pasifika Environews
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November 15, 2024
As COP29 unfolds in Baku, Azerbaijan, with world leaders engaged in critical discussions on climate finance, a groundbreaking discovery in the Solomon Islands serves as a stark reminder of the critical need for urgent action. A team of scientists...
Siosiua Utoikamanu named USP Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council
Matangi Tonga Online
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December 6, 2024
The University of the South Pacific has named a Tongan, Mr Siosiua Tuitalukua Tupou Utoikamanu, as the new Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council for a three-year term. The Acting Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council, Emeritus Professor Pat Walsh...
Pacific Islands on the Brink: NASA’s Alarming “Irreversible Sea Level Rise” Forecast
SciTechDaily
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October 9, 2024
Pacific Island nations such as Kiribati — a low-lying country in the southern Pacific Ocean — are preparing now for a future of higher sea levels. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home...
COP29: ‘We’re made to come here and almost beg to survive’
Pacific Media Network
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As the 29th Conference of the Parties COP29) wraps up in Baku, the Pacific delegation is navigating a familiar mix of hope and disappointment. Central to the negotiations was the issue of climate finance, a primary focus for this year’s COP. Dr...
Health team attend meet in Philippines
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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December 2, 2024
THREE PNG health officials have attended the Philippines-Pacific for Sustainable Health Force and Health Security Conference in the Philippines. The three-day conference of the new Philippine-Pacific Health Initiative of the Philippine government...
Solar Eclipse 2025: Dates, timings, places from where the eclipses can be seen and how to watch safely
The Times of India
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A solar eclipse is known as Surya Grahan in India, It happens when the Moon places itself between the Earth and the Sun, partially or totally covering the Sun's light. This alignment not just creates a breathtaking sight, casting a shadow on Earth...
Palau says China ICBM test a ‘direct threat’, seeks U.S Patriot missile system
Islands Business
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November 15, 2024
A ship’s mast stands in the atrium of Porirua’s Pātaka + Art Museum. Projected on its three sails is a 12-minute audio-visual story of how Tokelauans were abducted into slavery, lured on board a Peruvian slave ship under the guise of trading...
Smart Bed Statistics 2023: The Latest Trends and Insights
Hollywood Gazette
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August 26, 2024
Smart Bed Statistics 2023: The Latest Trends and Insights August 20, 2024 — Introduction Appreciating the years of growth for smart beds in the global marketplace, it is expected that their demand will continue to rise in 2023. The evolution of...