The World Bank will prioritise climate change resilience when working with Australia and New Zealand on their Pacific engagement programmes. Its vice president for East Asia and the Pacific, Victoria...
An Indonesian fishing vessel suspected of illegally fishing in Australian waters has been apprehended off north-west Western Australia in an operation undertaken by the AustralianBorder Force (ABF) Maritime Border Command...
The new head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has played a central role in expanding China’s global seafood reach and will now get to...
Governments have approved programmes and projects worth almost $1 billion to tackle growing threats to the natural world - and to help some of the Earth's most vulnerable people adapt...
Goundar Shipping Limited's (GSL) Director, George Goundar, is outraged that not all his vessels will not be able to sail out today, as ordered by the Maritime Safety Authority of...
Roberto Azevêdo, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), recently went on record about the importance of completing by year-end the WTO negotiations for the elimination of fisheries subsidies that contribute...
The Bonn Climate Change Conference was expected to advance work on several issues to facilitate implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, due...
Fisheries ministers from around the Pacific have endorsed a new strategy for a safer more robust regional tuna fishery. Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of the climate crisis, stopping...
One of Fiji's largest passenger vessel fleets providing inter-island services within Fiji has been grounded due to Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji (MSAF) assertions the fleet is in violation of...
The United Nations continues to let politics cloud its judgement and is failing to prevent tragedies, the President of the Marshall Islands says. Hilda Heine addressed the UN Human Rights...
The Cook Islands traditional voyaging canoe, Marumaru Atua, has made a grand return to her resting place off Rarotonga. In September 2017, the vaka was damaged by fire. Extensive fundraising efforts...
Tourism New Caledonia says hundreds of jobs are at risk over the reported attack on a yacht near Ouvea this week. The organisation said the circumstances need to be clarified...
