The Pacific Islands Challenge

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips into conflict will also be shaped by choices...

Land, sea and air surveying for Kiribati’s future

By David Crossman The Republic of Kiribati is one of the most remote nations in the world, comprising of 33 atolls and coral islands spread over 3,441,810 square kilometres of ocean, including all four quadrants of the Earth. Kiribati has...

Blood Thinners & Anti-Obesity Shots Dominate Medicare Drug Spending

From diabetes injectables to blockbuster blood thinners, a handful of drugs account for a sizable share of Medicare’s pharmacy bill. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, ranks the most common drugs by total Medicare spending in...

Ranked: America’s Most Common Drugs by Medicare Spending

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WHO launches first climate-health strategy in Fiji to protect lives and secure the future

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first-ever regional strategy for climate and health action. The landmark plan was unveiled this week during a major health summit in Fiji, one of the Pacific island nations most acutely...

Ranked: Countries With the Most Years in Poor Health

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Timing, Targeting, & Technology: Your New Collections Playbook

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Ranked: Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025

Ranked: 35 Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025 See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key...

Taitague presses military leaders for direct communication with the legislative branch

Sen. Telo Taitague confronted a Joint Region Marianas representative at last week's Pacific Island legislators meeting, demanding to know why the military briefs the governor's office but bypasses the legislature. The exchange happened during the...

Inside the country with visa-free entry for almost everyone - and the most beautiful beaches in the world

Tucked in the western Pacific Ocean is a country made up of more than 600 islands scattered across an expanse of ocean - five times the size of France. The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an archipelago composed of both high volcanic...

Integrating DNA Sequencing and AI for AAV Genome Integrity

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Albanese calls on Turkey’s Erdogan to break impasse on hosting COP31

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has written to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to break an impasse and allow Australia and the Pacific to host the COP31 in 2026. As it stands, Australia and Turkey have been locked in an ongoing stand-off...

A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers

Samuel Abayateye, a 38-year-old fisheries observer from Ghana, vanished from the Marine 707 in 2023 while monitoring tuna catches. Six weeks later, a mutilated body washed ashore near his home, but authorities have never released DNA results or an...

OPINION | Courts, coups, constitutional crises in the Pacific

I have in mind here some of the radical critics of “juristocracy” and “constitutionalism”, such as Ran Hirschl and Martin Loughlin, who have emphasised the dangers of judicial encroachment into the political sphere. To what extent has that been...

An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?

An odd shape in the South Pacific that has sparked the latest push to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time came to light in a backyard in California. US Navy veteran Mike Ashmore was at home in 2020, scrolling through satellite images...

WHO supports access to safer and affordable surgery framework

With climate change increasing surgical site infections and disrupting healthcare systems, the World Health Organization is supporting a regional framework to improve access to safe and affordable surgery in the Western Pacific. This was...

Monitoring chemicals helps to track global progress

A new Global Environment Facility program is supporting the expansion of work to monitor the distribution of long-lasting chemicals and mercury: toxic substances that present major risks to human and environmental health. The Global Chemicals...

Michael Smolens: Against the wind, students seek climate change accountability

They keep trying. Students locally and around the world have been taking to the streets and courthouses attempting to pressure governments and polluters to get more serious about reducing pollution and taming global warming. They’re acting like...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – October 24 – 30, 2025

Political Leadership and Regionalism, Peace and Security ‘Real Action’: Pacific voices growing louder over West Papua’s escalating crisis (PMN) China backs Fiji’s Ocean of Peace vision (Fiji Sun) Cook Islanders confront US-funded vessel over...

Closing the Gap: Managing Journal Entry Risk in the Record-to-Report Process

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