IMF, ADB set sights on damning US$37m Solomon Islands aid audit Report by auditor general found mismanagement and potential fraud in COVID-19 pandemic package payments.

Beijing calls attention to its Micronesia projects with ubiquitous China Aid signs but rejects scrutiny.

Students in Indonesia’s Papua region protest free-meal program, demand free education instead Authorities responded with force, including the use of tear gas and warning shots.

Philippine court convicts 4 police officers for killings in Duterte drug war Victims’ families see convictions as “partial victory” in holding former president accountable for bloody anti-drug ...

Mass killing and ‘cannibalism’ video mar start of PNG’s 50th anniversary year Tribal violence during the New Year highlights increasing lawlessness and lack of police resources.

Papua New Guinea’s opening of an embassy in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem has been condemned by Palestinian officials and by the Pacific island country’s opposition leader, who said it was a reckless ...

Indonesia’s Prabowo revives transmigration, deploys troops to Papua to ensure food security New president’s efforts to feed Indonesia could lead to additional violence in the restive region, analyst ...

Guam at decolonization ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood Local legislature to debate non-binding resolution to become 51st state of the U.S.

Election 2025: Earthquake aftershocks expose high cost of Vanuatu’s democracy Vanuatu’s self-sabotaging political class has left the country struggling to deal with social and economic shocks of ...

Climate ‘flashpoint’ looms for Trump’s China-centric focus on Pacific: US analysts Deepening U.S. engagement with the Pacific is now firmly a consensus issue in Washington.

China discovers 100 million-ton oilfield in South China Sea: report The announcement came days after the U.S., Philippines, Japan staged naval training near a contested shoal.

Pacific leaders, Japan agree on Fukushima radioactive water discharge Monitoring will continue for decades while the contaminated waste is released from the Fukushima nuclear plant.