Category: Pacific News

By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific Correspondent AUCKLAND (TVNZ ONE NEWS)—A transnational crime expert is warning of alarming methamphetamine trends emerging across the Pacific. Associate Professor Jose Sousa-Santos from Canterbury University’s Pacific Regional Security Hub said a recent 4.8kg meth bust in Fiji showed how non-traditional criminal syndicates were now able to operate in the region. Several […]

NICE (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) —The world is falling dangerously behind in its race to protect the ocean. A new peer-reviewed study released by Dynamic Planet and National Geographic Pristine Seas offers a blunt assessment: to meet the global target of protecting 30 percent of the ocean by 2030, the world must establish 85 new coastal […]

Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Journalist Palau’s president says the US order to fast-track deep sea mining is not a good idea. Deep sea mining frontrunner The Metals Company (TMC) has since confirmed it will not apply for a mining license through the International Seabed Authority (ISA), instead opting to apply through US regulations. Surangel Whipps Jr. said the […]

HONIARA (ABC PACIFIC) — The Solomon Islands government blocked a group of Taiwanese officials from entering the Pacific country earlier this year, stirring fresh concerns in Taipei that it might be locked out of a key regional meeting in Honiara later this year. Solomon Islands will host the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in September, […]

GENEVA (UN NEWS CENTRE) — For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try. This is especially true among youth users: it’s one of the main reasons young people experiment with tobacco or nicotine products in the first place, according […]