NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

The United States has traditionally provided significant assistance to Pacific island countries. Many of these countries and regions still use the U.S. dollar as their currency and, absent their own ...

The Pacific Islands are of intensifying geostrategic interest. Sitting between Asia and the Americas, the region is one of the world’s most dependent on aid. It acts as the custodian of large swaths ...

Pacific Islands Forum Troika Leaders – Chair of the PIF and Prime Minister of Tonga ‘Aisake Valu Eke, the incoming Chair and Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele, Prime Minister of the ...

TOKYO — On the first day of the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, which opened in Tokyo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held separate meetings with the leaders of four Pacific island countries ...

A decades-old Pacific organisation for environmental protection said the United States must go through a formal process to ...

The South Pacific Ocean is the world's largest marine habitat, containing critical breeding grounds and migratory routes for 11 of the world's great whale species. The Cook Islands, Fiji, French ...

Amanda H.A. Watson receives research funding from the Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Pacific Research Program. Atishnal Elvin Chand does not work for, ...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...