Campbell Cooney

Work will start soon on building Papua New Guinea's newest educational facility.

In Solomon Islands the annual Forum Ministerial Standing Committee on the Regional Assistance Mission RAMSI has wrapped up.

The Pacific's major aid donor nations, are being called on to stop looking at China as a strategic adversary in the fight for military dominance in the region.

Oxfam Australia says Australian mining companies operating overseas often fail to obtain permission from the indigenous land owners before commencing projects on their land.

A prominent dolphin exporter from Solomon Islands says he plans to resume live-exports next month.

The winner-takes-all final of the Oceania Football Confederation's Champions League will be fought out between defending champions Auckland City and fellow New Zealand team Waitakere United in Auckland on Sunday.

Cronulla Sharks chairman Glen Coleman has quit the NRL club, after just two months in the job.

China is reportedly planning a major summit of Pacific leaders in Guangzhou in November.

There'll soon be light past the end of the power lines in Samoa with a plan to provide solar lighting kits to small isolated villages.

A group in the Northen Marianas has attacked a proposal by the US military to conduct live fire training on Pagan Island saying it will damage the ancestral land of the indigenous Chamorro and Carolinian people.

Right now the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation is getting ready to begin a new round of research in the Pacific into the best way to eliminate bycatch of non-tuna species on Tuna Fishing boats.

Aid organisations working in the Pacific have expressed disappointment with Australia's aid commitment in its budget.

Concerns have been raised about the affect of locals living around the Ramu Nickel Mine in Papua New Guinea, of a recent alleged spillover from the mine.

The United Nation's heritage agency UNESCO has recognised a unique archive of Pacific languages.

Fiji's travel restrictions have led to a delay in the sitting of Tuvalu's Supreme Court.

The Solomon Islands government has criticised the early release online of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report into the ethnic tensions.

People living in the Torres Strait and along the South West Coast of Papua New Guinea are being warned they will feel the affect of Tropical Cyclone Zane over the next couple of days.

The Solomon Islands government has criticised the early release online of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report into the ethnic tensions.

Fiji's Youth for Democracy group has delivered a petition to the officer of the military backed Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama, demanding his government adopt the constitution written by Professor Yash Ghai.

Solomon Islands has laid to rest one of its mostly highly respected news men, with the funeral today of Walter Nalangu.