There is a back-to-the-future atmosphere in the Pacific at present. Across the region, nations and territories are reckoning with history and its legacies as they try to forge a path forward in very ...

South Pacific island has mistakenly appeared in publications for past century. Nov. 23, 2012— -- Sandy Island was nowhere to be found when Australian scientists reached the South Pacific location ...

Often described as “America’s best kept secret,” the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is so much more than the U.S. backdoor to Asia. The Marianas Visitors Authority works to position the ...

According to a map provided by Japan’s Defense Ministry, joint air and missile defense training events will take place in the Sea of Japan—also called the East Sea in South Korea—the East China Sea ...

An international team of researchers has used geochemical fingerprinting to reconstruct long-distance voyages between central and western Pacific Islands during the last millennium A.D. Polynesian ...

A “worldwide catastrophe” is imperiling Pacific Islands and the world must respond to the unprecedented and devastating impacts of rising seas “before it is too late,” the United Nations chief has ...

SYDNEY, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Pacific Islands Forum has endorsed a plan to boost police numbers among its members, cutting the need to rely on external forces in a crisis, with China security ally ...

President Biden botched a simple acronym while speaking to leaders from the Pacific Islands on Monday in his latest verbal blunder. Biden, 80, got stumped as he was trying to dictate the abbreviation ...

The major agreement to emerge from this week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders’ meeting has been the establishment of a new $270 million Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI). The initiative will have ...

It’s long been understood that human settlement contributes to conditions that make Pacific Islands more susceptible to wildfires, such as the devastating Aug. 8 event that destroyed the Maui ...