A detailed rundown of the 2025 slate of the Utah Film Center’s Utah Queer Film Festival

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the curtain raiser of the 2025 Utah Queer Film Festival, see this link. The theme of fearless queerness permeates the slate of six feature-length documentaries and 40 short films in this year’s Utah Queer Film Festival slate. In...

SI pledges USD $1m to Pacific Resilience Facility

Washington D.C.,- Pacific leadership and solidarity were on full display last week as the Government of Solomon Islands and Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) announced a pledge of USD $1 million [SBD8m] to the Pacific Resilience Facility...

U.S. Intelligence Is Being Blinded by Trumpian Politics

Since 1997, the U.S. intelligence community has published the unclassified “Global Trends” report every four years to assess different scenarios for our global future and their likely impact on the United States. We can state confidently, having...

☢️ Why Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament Is a Lonely Pursuit for African States

By Kudawashe Mapako Next year’s Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons gives African states an opportunity to turn lofty disarmament pledges into real action. Kudakwashe Mapako says these states...

Washington Stands Firm Against United Nation's world Proposed Global Carbon Levy on Shipping Emissions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — October 16, 2025 — In a stark display of the Trump administration's "America First" foreign policy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a vehement rejection Wednesday of a United Nations-backed proposal that the U.S....

Micronesia's worst fears realised as WWII shipwrecks leak

Swimming amid the shipwrecks of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon is like diving into a time machine. A ghost fleet of ships and aircraft, once part of a formidable Japanese naval base, dot the floor of the state of Chuuk's shallow waters. They lie amid...

Assad’s shadow fleet linked to stealing Ukrainian grain

When a red-decked cargo vessel was spotted earlier this year loading grain at a Russian-occupied port in Ukraine, few realized that the ship’s story stretched far beyond the Black Sea. What seemed like another case of sanctions-busting maritime...

SI amongst world’s top fish consumers

The Solomon Islands has been ranked 33rd in the world for fish consumption per capita in 2025, according to the latest global data on fish consumption by country. According to Fish consumption by country 2025, the data shows that an average person...

Peleliu’s Camp Beck Sold to Palau Government for U.S. Military Use

Peleliu’s historic Camp Beck and surrounding lands have been sold by the Peleliu State Public Land Authority to the national government for $11.8 million, with documents showing the site will be made available to the U.S. military for indefinite...

Pacific Tuna Forum wraps up with call for balance, innovation, and...

The two-day Pacific Tuna Forum, held in Denarau, Nadi, Fiji, wrapped up Wednesday with powerful closing remarks from Dr Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen, Chairperson of the Pacific Tuna Forum 2025. The Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of...

Growing Fiji–Australia business relationship

THE President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Dr. Hilda Heine, delivered a strong and emotional statement at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling on the UN to finally take responsibility for decisions that harmed...

Reimagining Commercial Underwriting in the Age of AI

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The Daily View: The MEPC is getting nasty

THE GLOVES are off at the IMO. The US and Saudi Arabia have dominated talks at the MEPC so far, as they try to quash by any means possible the majority in favour of the global Net-Zero Framework. Whether they succeed in killing the two-tier carbon...

'The Diplomat' Season 3 Ending, Explained

In the finale of The Diplomat season 3, Kate faces yet another geopolitical dilemma: what to do about the Russian submarine in parked in U.K. waters that may or may not have a nuclear weapon onboard. She and her husband Hal try to work out a plan,...

New programs highlighted

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Commerce “shot two birds with one stone” by hosting two ceremonies the same day. The first event last Thursday was the handover ceremony of the new “state-of-the-art” x-ray machine at the Amata Kabua...

Marshalls biggest budget endorsed, quarterly resident payments begin

BY GIFF JOHNSON Marshall Islands Correspondent MAJURO, Marshall Islands — The Marshall Islands Nitijela (parliament) approved its largest-ever national budget in September, setting in motion plans to spend $769,342,435 during the fiscal 2026 year...

How will the US government shutdown affect the Pacific?

President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine, and President of the Federated States of Micronesia David Panuelo, US President Donal Trump and President of the Republic of Palau Tommy E. Remengesau. Photo: Faceook/ US Embassy...

How will the US government shutdown affect Pacific?

President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine, and President of the Federated States of Micronesia David Panuelo, US President Donal Trump and President of the Republic of Palau Tommy E. Remengesau. Photo: Faceook/ US Embassy...

Walking miles in their shoes: New Beginnings to make pilgrimage for homelessness from Bentonville to Fayetteville

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. A group of Northwest Arkansas residents will travel more than 30 miles by foot during a three-day pilgrimage from Bentonville to Fayetteville starting Thursday in...

Senator Schatz: U.S needs to ‘step up’ engagement in the Pacific Islands

In an online news conference with Pacific Islands journalists Wednesday, U.S Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i) said the United States needs to “step up” engagement in the region in order to help tackle the “catastrophic” effects of climate change,...