Pacific Beat

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

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

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

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

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

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.