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Our voyage to Statehood, 60 years on: understanding the nature and practice of free-association as we reflect on our development journey
Cook Island News
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June 28, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown. SUPPLIED. This year, the Cook Islands marks 60 years of self-governance, an historic milestone in our voyage to statehood, by Mark Brown, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. In 1965, our people chose to shape our own...
Tjibaou on New Caledonia talks in Paris: “We want to resolve this now”
Islands Business
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June 30, 2025
Koror, Palau-It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational...
King stresses urgent need to ‘save our forests and protect wildlife’
The Times
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The King has spoken of the urgent need to “save our forests”, as he was presented with a photo of a thriving Amazon rainforest tree he planted 34 years ago with Princess Diana. “There is so much urgency” to protect forests, he said at a meeting in...
King hailed as nature ‘leader’ at event to drive private money into biodiversity
Suffolk News
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June 25, 2025
The King shook hands with a “gorilla” and was made a “care-holder” of an area of pristine Pacific ocean as he attended an event on driving finance into nature protection. Ministers, indigenous leaders and businesses and investors representing...
Niue, the tiny island selling the sea to save it from destru...
Modern Ghana
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On a remote raised coral atoll in the South Pacific, the tiny island nation of Niue is quietly protecting one of the world's most ambitious marine reserves. While global leaders at the UN oceans gathering in Nice debate how to scale up efforts to...
Protecting Paradise: The Story Of Niue
Daily Mail
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June 20, 2025
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 06:00 EDT, 20 June 2025 | Updated: 07:08 EDT, 20 June 2025 Nature documentary telling the story of a protected ocean reserve in the Pacific Year: 2025 Certificate: 15 Watch now on Disney+ After years of...
Unlocking Sustainable Finance, Key to Transition Pacific SIDS Economies
Talamua
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June 19, 2025
Apia, Samoa – 20 June 2025 – A timely policy dialogue held this week in Apia discussed ways to unlock sustainable finance solutions for Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This is recognition of the critical role sustainable finance...
Pacific Leaders Rally For Climate-Resilient Fisheries At Third UN Ocean Conference
Scoop
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NICE, FRANCE, 11 JUNE 2025 – Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent global action to protect the world’s largest tuna production region from the accelerating impacts of climate change. This message was reinforced at the 3rd UN...
Pacific leaders rally for Climate-Resilient Fisheries at UN Ocean Conference
Matangi Tonga Online
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June 11, 2025
Pacific leaders have issued a unified call for urgent global action to protect the world’s largest tuna production region from the accelerating impacts of climate change. This message was reinforced at the 3rd UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France...
PACIFIC JOURNOS MEET CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL, PRAISE CHINA
Solomon Star
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June 29, 2025
Beijing, China – SIX Pacific Islands journalists met with the Director of the Pacific Island Division, Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry on Foreign Affairs, Gu Xinqiang in Beijing and exchanged views within...
A drop in the ocean? Pacific nations tap local know-how for marine conservation
South China Morning Post
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June 27, 2025
Pacific island nations are racing to enhance marine conservation, establishing sweeping “no-take” zones and pledging to sustainably manage vast swathes of their territorial waters despite facing limited resources and geopolitical pressure. Among...
Paradise lost? One in three want to leave sinking islands behind
The Times
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They live among their gardens on tropical islands where the average temperature is a clement 28C but almost a third of people in the Pacific nation of Tuvalu want to flee by using a climate change escape visa. Australia has been offering the visas...
Thomas Wynne: Peace and agreement
Cook Island News
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June 28, 2025
Thomas Wynne. In 1965 Taru Moana said the following, “I te patu paepae ka kaue taenatini, ka poroaki ei kia ‘au – On the meeting ground, matters of disagreement can be discussed and resolved by peaceful means, writes Thomas Wynne. To be willing to...
Building Pacific capacities to support trade and market access
Pacific Community (SPC)
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To strengthen the skills of Pacific biosecurity, border control, exporter representatives and relevant stakeholders in using Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) databases and platforms, a regional capacity-building workshop is underway in...
Pacific News Briefs: Award-Winning Māori Short Film
Samoa News
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June 23, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An award-winning short film, which honors the resilience of Māori youth, has been named a finalist at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Written and directed by Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Porou, Niue,...
100 percent import tariff on vehicles 15 years or older
Television Niue
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June 27, 2025
The tariff for importing vehicles that are 15 years and older is 100 percent or $5,000 per vehicle, whichever is the highest amount according to a public notice issued earlier this month by the Customs department. To comply with the government’s...
Letter: New Zealand aid
Cook Island News
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June 26, 2025
Dear Editor, There is a claim by some doing the rounds, that New Zealand’s economy is struggling, and the aid freeze is just a convenient excuse to pull back funding. TBH (to be honest) think it through, that’s highly unlikely, budgeted foreign...
China in the Pacific – Joint statement of the Third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
The Fiji Times
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June 26, 2025
FROM May 28 to 29, 2025, the People’s Republic of China and Pacific Island Countries having diplomatic relations with China (hereinafter referred to as “All parties”) held the third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The...
George and Amal Clooney charm King Charles during Buckingham Palace reception celebrating global youth awards
TDPel Media
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June 25, 2025
It was a night where Hollywood elegance met royal tradition. George and Amal Clooney, known as much for their style and social causes as their A-list status, brought extra sparkle to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening. The couple turned heads as...
What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
Climate Home News
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June 17, 2025
The 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change famously does not name the controversial root cause of the very problem it is intended to solve: fossil fuels. In the year of its 10th anniversary, Gillian Cooper, political director of the Fossil...