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Build fiscal buffers to strengthen economic resilience: World Bank
The Islandsun
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June 18, 2025
BY BEN BILUA WORLD Bank says countries in the Pacific including Solomon Islands must strengthen their economic resilience by building fiscal buffers to better withstand growing global shocks. Speaking on the current state of the global economy,...
Students safe, ministry confirms
The Islandsun
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June 18, 2025
BY NED GAGAHE Five Solomon Islands students in Israel are safe and well, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) confirmed this yesterday following an ongoing escalation of tensions between Israel and Iran in recent weeks. A travel...
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....
TOT program for ‘Knowledge Progress’ held in Gizo
Solomon Star
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June 16, 2025
A new Training of Trainers (TOT) program was held in Saeragi, West Gizo last week aimed at building climate-resilient food systems through community-based knowledge sharing. The training was part of a regional effort led by WWF Solomon Islands....
Pro-independence advocates urge MSG to elevate West Papua membership
Asia Pacific Report
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June 22, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Two international organisations are leading a call for the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to elevate the membership status of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) at their upcoming...
Story of the world’s first digital money
The National
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DID you know that someone once bought two pizzas for over K1 billion? It sounds crazy but it’s a true story — and it’s the beginning of something big: Bitcoin, the first-ever digital currency. Today, we hear about Bitcoin, USDT, ETH, Ripple, T4G...
Canadian foreign aid must be used efficiently, be transparent: minister
Global News
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June 26, 2025
The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient, more visible approach to development and humanitarian assistance to make the case for maintaining aid spending as the United States pulls back. “Those that are staying the...
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...
SI ends participation at UNOC3 in France
Solomon Star
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June 15, 2025
Nice, France — The Solomon Islands Government has officially concluded its engagement at the 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (UNOC3), held from 9–13 June 2025 in Nice, France. Led by...
Pacific Demands Ocean Action
Tavuli News
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June 16, 2025
The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, Hon. Jeremiah Manele, speaking for the Pacific Islands Forum at the UN Ocean Action Panel 10, has called for stronger global action to uphold international ocean law and tackle climate change impacts in the...
Ottawa's foreign aid chief prioritizes red tape, visibility as Canada resists cutbacks
Canada's National Observer
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June 26, 2025
The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient, more visible approach to development and humanitarian assistance to make the case for maintaining aid spending as the United States pulls back. "Those that are staying the...
Canada resists cutbacks
Castanet Kamloops
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June 26, 2025
Photo: The Canadian Press Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development), takes part in a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient,...
World's soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea
Phys.org
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June 24, 2025
On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've learned just about everything about them by now....
Oceans Conference Ends in Nice, France
Tavuli News
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June 14, 2025
The Solomon Islands Government has concluded its participation at the 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (UNOC3), held from 9–13 June in Nice, France. Led by Prime Minister Honourable...
Padezaka tribe conducts first carbon project audit verification
The Islandsun
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June 27, 2025
BY CHRIS ALEX Following the recent official signing last week of the Payment Ecosystem Service (PES) Agreement with the Natural Resources Development Foundation (NRDF) and Nakau, the Padezaka Tribal Association in South Choiseul has taken a major...
Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
Ottawa’s foreign aid chief eyes red tape, visibility as Canada resists cutbacks
CityNews Halifax
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June 26, 2025
OTTAWA — The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient, more visible approach to development and humanitarian assistance to make the case for maintaining aid spending as the United States pulls back. “Those that are staying...
Albanese’s travel diary fills fast as summit season begins
Sky News Australia
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June 21, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is preparing to attend more than half a dozen overseas trips or conferences by the end of 2025, Sky News Australia can reveal. Mr Albanese will attend the APEC forum in Korea, ASEAN summit in Malaysia, COP climate...
Clear government ownership structures can help boost SOE performance-PSDI
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (24 June 2025)—Pacific governments can improve the performance of their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and reduce fiscal risks by implementing clearer and more consistent government ownership and oversight arrangements, according...
Pacific island nations face tuna crisis as warming ocean drives fish east
Environmental Health News
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June 9, 2025
A warmer Pacific Ocean is pushing tuna eastward, threatening food security, government revenue, and livelihoods across small island nations dependent on the migrating fish. Nathan Eagle reports for Honolulu Civil Beat. In short: Tuna populations...