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Pacific Islands News Roundup – September 19 – 25, 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 Islands will 'rise and fall' due to sea level rise - Trump official
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1News
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1News US correspondent Logan Church spoke with Doanld Trump’s energy secretary, who said we should stop being so worried about climate change. Then he met a Prime Minister whose nation is being swallowed by the sea. There is no confidence like...
Owner: New Zealand Government
CNMI, DOW leaders strengthen partnerships on Saipan, Tinian
Leaders from the Department of War, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands government, federal agencies, and community representatives gathered for a CNMI Stakeholders Meeting in Garapan, Saipan, Sept. 24-25. The two-day engagement confirmed...
Owner: American Government
WHO: Measles, rubella stamped out in Pacific island countries, but risks persist
By Pacific Island Times News Staff Measles and rubella have been eliminated in 21 Pacific island countries and other areas in the Western Pacific, the World Health Organization verified today. However, WHO's verification came with a caveat, noting...
Owner: Mar-Vic Cagurangan (Editor & Publisher)
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program socioeconomic monitoring component: summary findings for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2024
The Socioeconomic Component of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) collects socioeconomic data across all United States (U.S.) coral reef territories and jurisdictions to inform human dimensions indicators. These indicators fall...
Owner: Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)
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
This Pacific island banned Chinese investment, but things have changed
Eric George has seen decades of broken promises on his home island, Malaita. From bridges that have never been fixed, building projects that never came, or just the pot-holed roads in a perpetual state of disrepair. More recently, a US Aid...
Owner: Australian Government
World News | India Hosts FIPIC Foreign Ministers Meeting in NY, Strengthens Ties with Pacific Island Nations
New York [US], September 25 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hosted the Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) in New York, highlighting the progress of a 12-point action plan...
Owner: Aditya Pittie
India hosts FIPIC Foreign Ministers Meeting in NY, strengthens ties with Pacific Island nations
New York [US], September 25 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hosted the Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) of the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) in New York, highlighting the progress of a 12-point action plan...
Owner: The Tribune Trust
US announces $60M payment to Pacific Islands Forum for fishing treaty
By Pacific Island Times News Staff The U.S. government has promised to remit $60 million to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, representing the second installment for a 10-year economic assistance agreement associated with the South...
Owner: Mar-Vic Cagurangan (Editor & Publisher)
Familiar Tensions Emerge at the Pacific Islands Forum
Tension at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is not new. At the summit in 2018, China’s envoy started a spat with the host country, Nauru, which recognized Taiwan at the time. In 2019, at the summit in Tuvalu, Australia was the disruptor. The...
Owner: James Pach
VOLCANO WATCH: The Wild Job Of HVO Field Technicians
(BIVN) – This week’s Volcano Watch article was written by Miki Warren, a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineer: The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) monitors volcanic activity across the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa,...
Owner: Dave Corrigan
Asian American, Pacific Islanders: 'Where are the people of color?'
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Cape Cod Times - Massachusetts
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The Massachusetts Asian American Pacific Islander Commission held a listening session on Cape Cod to discuss community challenges. Attendees shared experiences with racism, microaggressions, and feelings of isolation in the community. A statewide...
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Volcano Watch: The wild job of HVO’s technicians
The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity across the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa, helping to ensure public safety and support scientific research. Behind the scenes, the work of field technicians is critical to this...
Owner: Todd Carpenter & Canso Investment Counsel
State Department publications riddled with omissions and inaccurate info on Pacific island entries
Photo courtesy of the State Department The Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Palau is named U.S. Embassy Koror, which refers to the capital of Palau. However, the embassy’s official website says the embassy is actually in Airia. In one...
Owner: Mar-Vic Cagurangan (Editor & Publisher)
Forget John Wick: Marko Zaror's New Film Affinity Is His Most Dangerous Yet - INTERVIEW
From the streets of Santiago to the sets of John Wick: Chapter 4 and Machete Kills, Chilean actor Marko Zaror has earned a reputation as Latin America's most physical action hero. But with his new film Affinity, he takes a dramatic turn. This...
Owner: Simon Kim
PNG and Vanuatu deals show Australia’s growing contest with China
Events around this year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) have shown how Australia and China are competing to win influence over the region, as the risk of war grows. Solomon Islands, the host of this year’s PIF, received more than $18 million in...
Owner: Solidarity Socialist Group
Pacific Islands News Roundup – September 12 – 18, 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
United will replace planes at Guam hub, upgrade lobby; same-day connections from Saipan to Hawaii starts Dec. 1
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Pacific Daily News
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United Airlines will replace its entire Boeing 737-800 fleet with Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft and upgrade its check-in lobby with new kiosks "transforming the travel experience on the ground and in the sky at its Guam hub," the company said in a...
Owner: Kaleo Moylan
Study: Hawaiian and Pacific Islander teens face heightened risk of sexual assault
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The Maui News - Hawaii
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A health survey has found that Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adolescents face the highest sexual violence risk in Hawaii. Nearly one in eight Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander girls reported being forced to have sex at some point in...
Owner: Ogden-Nutting Family