By Bob Makin and BMO News A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...

By Jane Joshua and Len Garae  in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in the Vanuatu capital of...

By Abraham Utama in Jakarta National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi claims Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the...

By Dan McGarry in Port Vila A group of 16 New Zealand-based travel agents, tourism industry representatives and media professionals were welcomed "back" to Vanuatu...

West Papuans in Port Moresby calling to Christians across the world to pray for peace for West Papua earlier this year. Video: EM TV Pray...

The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...

Global press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, reports the global media watchdog Freedom House in its latest...

By Ami Dhabuwala and TJ Aumua in Daku village, Tailevu, Fiji A 50-minute drive out of Suva city is Daku village, a community of 332...

Daku village, less than an hour's drive from Suva in Tailevu, near Nausori, on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is a living...

Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations. On April 24,...

The Pacific Islands, among the most vulnerable nations to the impacts of climate change, have displayed global leadership last weekend when the Paris Agreement...

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal. A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...

Research expeditions can involve newly discovered species. This video shows a pale-winged creature dubbed "the ghost fish". It was discovered by the Schmidt Ocean...

Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports on the Philippine army defending its operations against the armed Abu Sayyaf group in the south of the country...

By TJ Aumua in Suva Severe weather patterns and cyclonic activity have become increasingly hyperactive in the South Pacific with climate change as the key...

By Ami Dhabuwala in Suva The people of the Pacific have been handed a big challenge over the weekend – mobilise for urgent climate change...

By Sara Stavropoulos Ruatoria-born soldier Private Christian Hohepa has now travelled a long way since joining the New Zealand Army in 2013. On his first-ever trip...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...

I give my column space today to my favorite communication man, Professor Crispin C. Maslog. A former journalist with Agence France-Presse, Cris was director...

The signing of the Paris Accord on climate change at the United Nations. Video: PBS News Hour clip By Carole Landry in New York With their...

The International Federation of Journalists and the South East Asia Journalist Unions have joined international organisations Committee to Protect Journalists and Freedom House in...

By Julie Cleaver In Fiji, the number of reported domestic violence cases has increased. Police say in the first quarter of this year, it registered...