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Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
Odisha Diary
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA, June 17, 2025 — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released today in Honiara, projects...
Slowing growth faces Pacific, need for more inclusive workforce highlighted
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released on Tuesday in Honiara, projects regional growth...
Island nations are protecting our oceans. The G20 must catch up
Context
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The President of the Marshall Islands tells world’s biggest emitters to act as cyclones and record high tides endanger her country. Hilda Heine is President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. As world leaders prepare to gather for the third...
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 island states need multifaceted approach to renewables transition
Energy Monitor
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June 27, 2025
A report has stated that small island developing states (SIDs) in the Pacific, excluding Papua New Guinea, spend more than $1bn annually on fossil fuels, which is nearly 80% of their total energy costs, despite their low greenhouse gas emissions....
Report highlights lack of birth studies
Marshall Islands Journal
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June 5, 2025
GIFF JOHNSON A new report on the US nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of United States study into important health concerns voiced by Marshallese that make it impossible to have a clear understanding of the...
China irks NZ as its influence spreads in the South Pacific
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
World News | China Irks NZ as Its Influence Spreads in the South Pacific
Latestly
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
What sharks are worth—and why that matters
Mongabay
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June 25, 2025
Stefanie Brendl, founder of Shark Allies, transitioned from shark tourism to advocacy after a pivotal free-diving encounter with a tiger shark, leading her to champion the world’s first shark fin trade ban in Hawaii. Her legislative work has since...
Military bill neglects Hawaii’s needs, Case says
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 13, 2025
U.S. Rep. Ed Case is blasting military appropriation legislation that is moving through the House of Representatives as “shortchanging” priorities critical to Hawaii, including environmental cleanup and military infrastructure. On Wednesday,...
How the reorganization of the US Department of Health impacts the US Territories
Pasquines
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June 26, 2025
In late March, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan to streamline the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and cut an estimated 10,000 full-time jobs. This...
Alessio Vinassa on DAOs: The Future of Business
Finbold
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June 27, 2025
How Web3 and decentralized governance are redefining company structures for a global economy The corporate blueprint we inherited from the industrial era—centralized hierarchies, top-down control, and rigid legal frameworks—is increasingly out of...
Over 60 States across regions pay tribute to women human rights defenders
International Service for Human Rights
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June 27, 2025
Crucially, the statement highlights not only the positive contributions of women human rights defenders, and the threats they face, but it also focuses on their needs and the indispensable resources required for them to deliver transformative...
ADB’s Director General for Pacific in Honiara
Solomon Star
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June 25, 2025
Director General (DG) of the Pacific Department within the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) is on a five-day visit to the Solomons. Emma Veve who was appointed to the position in late February 2025 arrived in Honiara on Monday and has been visiting...
UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters
Mongabay
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June 19, 2025
The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of thousands of species that live in marine waters and the communities that depend on the sea for work or sustenance. New...
UNOC3: World Leaders Recognize Urgent Need for Ocean Action
Inter Press Service
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June 9, 2025
Africa Climate Wire, Aid, Biodiversity, Caribbean Climate Wire, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Natural Resources, Pacific Community Climate Wire, Small Island Developing...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...
‘Our Ocean is our heritage, our home and our future’
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Copyright: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Monitoring and Governance As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) gets underway in Nice France, Samoa’s Prime...
The Sunshine Blog: Influence Peddling By The Numbers
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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June 24, 2025
Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i. Bloc heads: The Blog was thrilled to see a new analysis published Monday that takes another...
Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 22, 2025
Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....