Pacific Islands Forum
New Zealand is courting the United States to return as a major donor and diplomatic powerhouse in the Pacific after years of disinterest in the region from American administrations.
A new report about British involvement in occupied West Papua was tabled on Tuesday in the UK parliament. West Papua activists say the report, 'Bringing it All Back Home: the role of British companies...
With a climate resilience fund and a high-level agreement on regional peace in the bag, Pacific leaders will finish up multi-day talks at a private retreat.
Top Australian ministers are confident a security treaty can be signed with Vanuatu after the deal was scuppered days before it was set to be signed.
Regional unity at a time of rising competition between major powers has been stressed to a full house of Pacific leaders at key annual talks.
Australia's ties with Vanuatu will go to "the next level", despite the two countries failing to sign off on a long-awaited security and economic agreement, the prime minister says.
Pacific leaders are set for a more intimate gathering than usual at key annual talks, but excluding some heavyweight nations may prove counterproductive to goals of luring crucial funding for the regi...
A Sino-Australian tit-for-tat in Honiara as the two nations try to diplomatically out-muscle one another in the lead-up to this year's Pacific Islands Forum has been described as almost comical.
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is insidious across the Pacific, robbing small nations of hundreds of millions of dollars and risking the sustainability of legitimate operations throughout...
A Chinese corporation has pledged $A1 billion to Nauru, the Pacific Islands nation with a population of 12,000 says, as major powers including the United States push for influence in the region.
Australia has handed over a dozen armoured troop carriers to Papua New Guinea as the nations finalise a bilateral defence treaty. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles was in Port Moresby for the hando...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele says 21 donor countries, including the United States and China, will not be invited to the Pacific's top political meeting, a move that follows pressure...
Pacific police chiefs are scoping areas where additional assistance can be deployed as Australia helps scale up regional security responses by training local officers.