A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel ... increasingly spilling over into local hands, feeding drug addiction ...

Diminishing Growth amid Global Uncertainty: Ramping up Investment in the Pacific (October 2024) The World Bank’s October 2024 Pacific Economic Update provides an assessment of the economies of the ...

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Five Pacific nations on Thursday plotted how to prosecute a pivotal UN court case that aims to hold climate-polluting countries to account and safeguard their islands' survival. The International ...

Earlier this month, Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Baron Waqa attended the South Pacific Defence Ministers meeting in Auckland. He said it was important that “peace and stability in the ...

SYDNEY, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Pacific Island nations are at risk of becoming bases for global criminal gangs, a report by the United Nations drug authority said on Friday, as criminal activity surges ...

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The leader of one of Taiwan’s last diplomatic allies in the Pacific said his nation is under increasing pressure from China to end its support for Taipei. Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr ...

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NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — We are offering the following stories which have been selected by Agence France-Presse''s chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week A surge of drugs is ...

Pacific Island Nations at Risk of Becoming Footholds for Global Crime Gangs, Says UN By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pacific Island nations are at risk of becoming bases for global criminal ...