Geraldine Coutts

If you don't know by now that social media is sweeping the globe, where have you been hiding?

Reports are emerging from Apia that a majority of members of the governing Human Rights Protection Party are calling for the resignation or sacking of Finance Minister, Faumuina Tiatia Liuga.

New Zealand has named its team for the UCI Paracycling Road World Cup and Road World Championships in Canada later this year.

US President Obama's promise to reform immigratrion laws may have benefits in Hawaii.

The Pacific Disability Forum has joined forces with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to help identify more accurately the needs of the disabled in the Pacific.

The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia is being marked in Fiji this week with a peace vigil and a Pride Party.

Vanuatu's Prime Minster Moana Carcasses Kalosil has been vocal in his support of West Papua and its bid for a seat at the Melanesian Spearhead Group table.

There's a National Day of Mourning today for the plight of women in Papua New Guinea.

Australia's leading medical research organisation, the Burnet Institute is about tp tackle Papua New Guinea's greatest health problem - maternal and child death.

Fiji's interim government and the PNG government are moving closer to a joint military peacekeeping agreement .

The Oceania Football Confederation is running a course to teach coaches how to teach their skills to up and coming coaches.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Renewable energy is 'good' and fossil fuels are 'bad'.

Vanuatu can only consider itself truly independent once it can offer spealised surgical services without relying on overseas donors.

Fiji's cabinet has approved defense cooperation between the Fiji Military and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

This week has seen the Pacific mark World Tuna Day.

Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has announced that his government will provide 100,000 dollars for the emergency supply of desalination units for the Marshall Islands, following continued severe droughts which have severely reduced agricultural capacity and risk endangering local lives.

The Papua New Guinea Open is under way at the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club.

The first round of semi-finals is getting under way this weekend in the Oceania Football Confederation's Champions League, It will see Amicale take on Waitakere United, and Auckland City up against Ba.

Some Pacific media leaders are using World Press Freedom Day to call for greater self-regulation in the form of a Pacific Media Ombudsman.