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The Pacific Tourism Organisation Hosts Two-Week Research Training for PNGTPA to Strengthen Tourism Data Capacity
From 16 to 30 September 2025, the Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) hosted a two-week research training program for the Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority (PNGTPA), aimed at strengthening PNGTPA’s capacity to manage and deliver...
Weaving Wisdom and Science: Pacific Voices Call for Ocean Protection
Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice, COP30, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Justice, Natural...
Owner: Inter Press Service (Non-profit)
The Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP) Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Journey: What are we doing differently?
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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The Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program (PHWP), being implemented across 15 participating countries1, provided a rare opportunity to reimagine how MERL can meaningfully contribute to ensuring sovereign warehouse storage and response...
Owner: Pacific Community
From Burning Man to Samoa: Thoughts on Belonging, Healing & Change
This year at Burning Man, my wife Mia (our camp lead) and I, together with friends under the banner of “Foamy Homies” (not Dr. Bronner’s), embraced a theme of trans solidarity in the midst of cultural confusion and oppression. Our camp name was...
Owner: Bronner Family
Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti reaches first stop on voyage to Samoa
Navigators from Te Kura Waka have passed Rangitāhuahua (Kermadec Islands), the first stop on their voyage to Samoa, after a week at sea. Nine crew members set sail from Tāmaki Makaurau last week aboard their waka hourua, Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti, as...
Owner: New Zealand Government
New in-country testing advances breast cancer care in Samoa and Tonga
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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The Pacific Community (SPC) is enhancing breast cancer diagnosis and management in the Pacific Islands, where it stands as the most common cancer affecting women. Through a vital new laboratory strengthening initiative, Samoa and Tonga are now...
Owner: Pacific Community
Sāmoa village elders still seeking restitution, want Manawanui wreck removed
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Pacific Media Network
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It has been almost a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sunk off the southcoast of Upolu in Sāmoa. But people living in affected coastal communities say their calls for fair compensation and the removal of the wreck continue to fall on deaf ears. RNZ...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Samoa elders still seeking compensation, want Manawanui wreck removed
It has been almost a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sunk off the southcoast of Upolu in Samoa. But people living in affected coastal communities say their calls for fair compensation and the removal of the wreck continue to fall on deaf ears. RNZ...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Cambodia Approves $7.8 Billion in Investment Projects in First Nine Months of 2025
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Cambodianess
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An aerial view shows the city skyline with high-rise buildings in Phnom Penh on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Suy SE / AFP) PHNOM PENH-- Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2025, a...
Owner: Mengly J. Quach
Samoa village elders still seeking compensation, want Manawanui wreck removed
It has been almost a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sunk off the southcoast of Upolu in Samoa. But people living in affected coastal communities say their calls for fair compensation and the removal of the wreck continue to fall on deaf ears. RNZ...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Life Sciences Cloud Content Migration: Separating Fact from Fiction
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BioPharma Dive
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Owner: Informa PLC
Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti sets sail to Samoa
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Te Ao Maori News
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A group of voyagers have spent the last ten years preparing for their journey to Samoa, guided by the traditional navigation methods of their ancestors. This week, they will set sail aboard the waka hourua Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti on their voyage, Te...
Owner: New Zealand Government & Te Putahi Paoho
Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)
Since 2014, Samoa’s “little dodo” has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List: related to the extinct dodo, an adult manumea, as it’s called locally, has not been photographed well in the wild, and its song has rarely been...
Owner: Rhett Ayers Butler
Pacific Islands News Roundup – September 26 – October 2, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Owner: East-West Center & University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Pacific news in brief for 3 October
Bougainville commemorated the 24th Anniversary of the Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA) on 30 August 2025. The BPA is a historic accord signed between the people of Bougainville and the Papua New Guinea government 2001. Photo: Autonomous...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Samoa Shipping Corporation: Vacancy – Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Samoa Shipping Corporation: Vacancy – Mechanical Maintenance EngineerSeptember 10, 2025Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More Related posts: JOB VACANCY : FINANCE ASSISTANT EATHU CASTING AND FORGING CO., LTD CBS Security Officer – Vacancy...
Owner: Mataeliga Pio Sioa
Cybercrime Investigation Training underway at Samoa’s Police Academy
17 September 2025, Apia Samoa Source: SPPCS. A Cybercrime Investigation Training is underway at the Samoa Police Academy at Tafaigata. Acting Deputy Commissioner Papalii Efo Moalele delivered opening remarks to launch the training on behalf of the...
Owner: Non-transparent
Laaulialemalietoa sworn in as Samoa's new PM
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Xinhua News Agency
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SUVA, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has been sworn in as new prime minister of Samoa, beginning his five-year term in office. The first sitting of Samoa's newly elected 18th parliament and swearing-in ceremony took place...
Owner: Chinese Government
Laaulialemalietoa announces his first Cabinet as Samoa’s Prime Minister
Prime Minister Hon Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt has announced his Cabinet for the 18th Parliament of Samoa, with two Deputy Prime Ministers to serve half a term each. In addition to the Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet...
Owner: Non-transparent
Next generation of global communications goes hand-in-hand with dispersed forces
Visit this page to watch the full discussion. The nature of warfare is changing in ways that are likely to make large footprints of forces more vulnerable and more dispersed ones more successful. And the nature of military communications is...
Owner: Stanley S. Hubbard