Oceania

Luganville City Council is completing digitalization, so that business owners and residents can pay their taxes, permits and bills electronically

Seven members of the UK emergency medical team currently in the country were released from quarantine this week and began their work yesterday in response to Covid-19 at provincial level

Thanks to the Kokoda Track Foundation, one of the few kindergartens in the Northern Province, operating in the local community hall for about eight years, now has a new double classroom

A month after anti-epidemic supplies arrived in the capital Tarawa, the country appears to have returned to non-alarming pandemic levels, the WHO website shows

SP PNG Hunters have revealed BSP Financial Group Ltd as the club's official kit sponsor for the 2022 Hostplus Cup season, thus committing to rugby and community development in the country

4,0% unemployment rate in February 2022 showed a further decrease from January's 4,2% and is at its lowest since August 2008

The country has received the first of two Guardian-class Patrol Boats, delivered through the Pacific Maritime Security Program, highlighting how Australia is not only a partner, but also a close friend for the State

Following first accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges of the US to Northern Islands High School in Wotje, it gave its stamp of approval to Marshall Islands, extending its accreditation for a new 6-year period, the longest

Form 6 and 7 students in Vava'u and Tongatapu will return to school today; as of the end of 2021, most students had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and only fully vaccinated teachers will be allowed to teach in the schools

Fiji's long-standing contribution to international peace and security has made the region proud, as was pointed out by Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific

Miss Nauru Beauty Pageant 2022 has been postponed to 21 May in order to coincide with the Government’s Constitution Day and centenary anniversary celebrations for the Nauru Congregational Church Women’s Fellowship on May

Samoa's patrol boat Nafanua II, which was gifted by Australia two years ago and severely damaged in a grounding last August, is beyond repair and has been tagged for disposal by the Australian government

The Australian High Commission in Tuvalu has joined the Fuligafou non-governmental organisation in supporting its work to plant and restore coral in the Funafuti lagoon