Pacific Beat

If you begin to notice a bumper crop of mangos growing in in your part of the Pacific, it could mean cyclone season is just around the corner.

Celebrations are underway in Vanuatu to mark the 25th anniverary of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

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

The ethnic tension in Solomon Islands in could have been avoided if Australia had decided to intervene early.

As moves to begin negotiations over re-opening the Rio Tinto owned Bougainville copper mine pick up pace Papua New Guinea is beginning to look ahead at what that could mean.

Kiribati has given notice that it will be applying for membership of the United Nation's G77 group of nations.

Papua New Guinea's busiest port in the industrial city of Lae in Morobe province has re-opened following a twenty-four hour shutdown by disgruntled stevedore companies.

A major test of the Pacific's tsunami warning system is underway across the region.

Two fishermen from Kiribati have survived more than three weeks at sea before being rescued by a US fishing boat.

There's no relief in sight for the drought affected region of the northern Marshall Islands.

Australia needs to deploy its armed forces closer to home.

Journalist, Gratien Tiona was a celebrity of sorts yesterday - he was the first person from Vanuatu facing a terrorism charge and he'd lost his job too.

An ecology lecturer from Deakin University in Melbourne hopes to suspend infra-red video cameras in trees in Papua New Guinea for a round the clock study of two endangered species of tree kangaroo - the tenkile and the weimang.

The vanilla industry in Tonga has just received two significant boosts.

Lawyers for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom have accused the US government of launching a flawed prosecution against their client with "frightening" implications for all internet users.

The former Kiribati Opposition Leader, Rimeta Beniamina, is facing criticism over his defection to the government.

Fiji's coup installed military government has called the country's union movement selfish and irresponsible for backing an international campaign aimed at potential tourists.

A US-based West Papuan activist group says it believes six protestors were killed by Indonesian security forces about a week ago.

Papua New Guinea's island of Bougainville is due to hold a referendum on independence some time between 2015 and 2020.