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PNG’s literacy rate ‘lowest in Pacific’, but government plans boost to...

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Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant
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Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

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Author Byron Clark Clark believes Pacific nations are “less susceptible to climate change disinformation
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PNG woman journalist hit by stray bullet during Moitaka shootout

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Razed office buildings and boarding houses in West Papua's Dogiyai Regency, Central Papua Province, which caught fire on Monday 31 July 2023
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Papuan police investigate spate of fires razing offices, houses in Dogiyai

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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

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