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Vanuatu advances digital ID as Algeria prepares eSIM rollouts
Homepage > News > Business > Vanuatu advances digital ID as Algeria prepares eSIM rollouts Vanuatu is making significant progress with its attempts to launch a national digital identity system for residents of the Pacific island nation, launching...
Owner: Calvin Ayre
The Time for a Decade of Island Resilience is Now
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Energy, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion The Rock Islands, Palau. Credit:...
Owner: Inter Press Service (Non-profit)
Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as U.S-owned exploration vessel docks in Cook Islands
RAROTONGA (GREENPEACE) — Holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana” Cook Islands activists confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, peacefully protesting the emerging threat of deep-sea mining. Four activists...
Owner: Islandtimes Palau
Cook Islanders confront U.S-funded vessel over seabed mining threat
RAROTONGA (PMN) — Four Cook Islands activists in kayaks confronted a United States-funded exploration vessel as it returned to port in Rarotonga on Wednesday, holding a banner that read “Don’t Mine the Moana.” In a bold act of oceanic resistance,...
Owner: Islandtimes Palau
Vanuatu Minister of Agriculture sets 10 million kava plant target by...
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Pacific News Service
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Vanuatu Minister of Agriculture, Ian Wilson, has announced an ambitious national target to plant 10 million new kava plants by 2030 as part of efforts to boost production. Kava is usually planted one metre apart, so about 10,000 plants can grow on...
Owner: The Pacific Islands News Association Ltd
Commonwealth Launches Landmark Guide To Build Trusted Data Systems For Agriculture And Food Security
Press Release – The Commonwealth Developed through three years of collaboration with governments, experts and partners across the Commonwealth, the guide sets out a five-year roadmap for building trusted, interoperable and independently governed...
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UN Punts on Shipping Carbon Tax
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The Patriot Post
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After a little-noticed UN proposal for “international tax cooperation” sponsored by African nations passed last year, some of its initial fruit was a proposal to enact a global tax on shipping. As described by the editors of the Wall Street...
Owner: Mark Caldwell
Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions hits major hurdle
Photo by Tom Fisk via Pexels A landmark global deal to cut greenhouse gases emitted by the shipping industry has fallen through following interventions by the US and Saudi Arabia. More than 100 countries had gathered in London on 17 October to...
Owner: Kevin Sorkin
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to U.S pressure
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Pacific News Service
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Under intense pressure from Donald Trump’s government, countries have postponed plans to force shipowners to start paying for the damage they do to the climate. U.S officials were accused of “bullying” and “intimidation”, as nations met in London...
Owner: The Pacific Islands News Association Ltd
Fiji Concludes the Management and Conservation of Blue Carbon Ecosystems (MACBLUE) Project with closing event
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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The MACBLUE project partners, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),...
Owner: Pacific Community
Cook Islanders confront US-funded vessel over seabed mining threat
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Pacific Media Network
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Four Cook Islands activists in kayaks confronted a United States-funded exploration vessel as it returned to port in Rarotonga on Wednesday, holding a banner that read “Don’t Mine the Moana.” In a bold act of oceanic resistance, the group targeted...
Owner: New Zealand Government
Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as U.S exploration vessel enters port
Greenpeace Australia Pacific RAROTONGA, Wednesday 22 October 2025 — Cook Islanders holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana” have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the emerging threat of...
Owner: The National Tribune Australia
Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as US-owned exploration vessel docks in Cook Islands
Avarua, Rarotonga, Holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana” Cook Islands activists confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, peacefully protesting the emerging threat of deep sea mining. Four activists in...
Owner: Greenpeace (Non-profit)
Singapore-based executive resigns amid us sanctions over Prince Group ties
The executive director of Singapore-based FSM Holdings has stepped down following allegations from the United States linking him to a Cambodian transnational scam syndicate tied to Prince Holding Group, a conglomerate recently labeled a criminal...
Owner: Luis Pereira
Meet The Mysterious Man Accused Of Orchestrating A $14 Billion Crypto Scam
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Zee News
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$14 Billion Crypto Phantom: Chen Zi is 37 years old but faces accusations of masterminding a vast cyber-fraud empire. The scheme has ensnared victims across the globe. With thin beard and a boyish face, he appears younger than his age. Despite his...
Owner: Subhash Chandra
Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship Strengthens Leadership in Food and Energy Resilience
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East-West Center
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A program of the East-West Center and Doris Duke Foundation, the fellowship convenes emerging leaders from 13 countries to explore sustainable solutions for food and energy security. The East-West Center and the Doris Duke Foundation will launch...
Owner: East-West Center (Nonprofit)
Shipping Emissions Charge Vote Delayed Amid US Pressure
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has postponed a crucial vote on implementing a global charge for shipping emissions, a decision that underscores the influence of the Trump administration on international climate negotiations. This...
Industry Voices Disappointment and Concern as IMO Postpones Global Shipping Carbon Tax Vote
Governments at the International Maritime Organization decided to postpone for one year the adoption of what would have been the world’s first global carbon pricing system on international shipping at the Extraordinary Session of the Marine...
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Vanuatu Tourism Office Unveils New Digital Gateway: www.vanuatu.travel
PORT VILA, VANUATU – October 15, 2025: Friday 10th October 2025, marks a significant and exciting milestone for the Vanuatu Tourism Office (VTO) as it proudly announced the launch of the upgraded destination website for Vanuatu. The CEO, Mrs Adela...