Activists say better leadership must come from Australia, accused of ‘climate fraud’ over its continued expansion of gas and coal projects.
Activists say better leadership must come from Australia, accused of ‘climate fraud’ over its continued expansion of gas and coal projects
A report said the competition for shipping lanes, ports and seabed minerals may not bring ‘tangible benefits’.
Years after Curtin stood up to Churchill and Keating rejected the “US deputy” label, Australia seems to have lost its backbone.
President Xi Jinping made the pledge along with promises of economic support in a meeting with Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
In a candid speech, the Malaysian-born foreign minister highlighted the need for more diverse leadership and deeper ties with Asia.
Beijing may have realised it had been a ‘bit insensitive’ after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka revisited police deal, analyst says.
The nation of roughly 120,000 residents switched ties from Taiwan to Beijing in 2019, and is considered strategic despite being small, because it is relatively close to the US state of Hawaii.
‘Shared security challenges’ tackled by two allies as ministerial consultations feature each country’s top defence and diplomatic officials.
Among the areas of concern highlighted by Pacific island nations was Japan’s release of treated radioactive water.
A report by an asylum seeker support group found one-fifth of the remaining refugees are “so unwell their lives were at imminent risk”.
Analysts think Tokyo will answer the island nation’s appeal for help monitoring Chinese vessels, as it has done so with others in the region.
The Pacific nation’s PM announced the funding after talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, hailing China’s ‘transformative’ presence.
Scientists say a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month may be an elusive whale that has never been seen alive.
The visit to Australia will be a critical moment for Britain’s king as he tries to shore up support for the monarchy at home and abroad.
China donated a presidential building complex in Vanuatu, while Australia and New Zealand inaugurated an airstrip in neighbouring Solomon Islands, amid competition for influence in the Pacific.
Christian Tein, head of the CCAT group, will be sent almost 17,000km to France with the group’s communications chief Brenda Wanabo.
The reform would have allowed people living in New Caledonia for at least 10 years to vote in local ballots – unfreezing electoral rolls that have gone unchanged since 2007.
Cassowaries are flightless birds only found in Australia, New Guinea and some Pacific islands. Only 4,500 of the endangered birds remain in the wild.
World leaders taking part in sports events is nothing new, but it is rare for one to walk away with a medal from an international competition.
The UN report said that growth in productivity has slowed, hurting incomes and undermining the purchasing power of the region’s 2 billion workers.
Monday’s update came as overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous interior raised fears that tonnes of rubble involved in the landslide could become dangerously unstable.
Local officials had initially put the death toll at 100 or more. Only five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered so far.
The latest fatality was a blow to hopes for calm after Macron’s visit, which some officials had seen as heralding an end to more than a week of violence that has now killed seven people.
The Red Cross estimates the number of injured or dead could be between 100 and 500.
The president held talks with local leaders on the French-ruled Pacific island amid deadly protests sparked by the controversial measure.
