Oceania Tonga The undersea internet cable connecting the country to the rest of the world was repaired and restored five weeks after the eruption
Oceania Australia The country said it will list the entire Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as a terrorist organisation, the last Western nation to do so, placing restrictions on funding or providing other support
Oceania Nauru The education department started a home school program due to a shortage in the number of teachers this year
Oceania New Zealand Two young athletes from the South Island resort town of Wanaka bring the country to win the first and second gold ever in the history of the Winter Games
Oceania New Zealand The PM said protesters opposing coronavirus mandates were using "intimidation and harassment" as authorities appeared to take a tougher stance towards the convoy of protesters who have been causing turmoil in Wellington for almost a week
Oceania Solomon Islands To re-establish its presence in a strategic region and counter China's growing presence in the Pacific, the United States intends to reopen its embassy in the country, closed since 1993
Oceania Fiji A foreign investor is looking for locations in the Yasawa Group, the archipelago in the Ba province, to build a six-star hotel that would employ 4500 people, announced the Economy Minister, who stressed the government's efforts to provide jobs for Fijians
Oceania Palau Attendance was estimated a little less than 50%, Minister Dale Jenkins said of the first day back to school after four weeks of closure due to the Covid-19 outbreak
Oceania Kiribati Banaba Island, whose phosphate-rich soil has boosted agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, is now facing its own food crisis due to a severe drought and the quarantine of new supplies such as rice
Oceania Samoa Imports last December exceeded exports, causing a $100 million trade deficit, according to a recently released report by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics titled "Overseas Merchandise Trade"
Oceania Marshall Islands Laura village resident Nicky Komanta went house to house monitoring salinity levels in private groundwater wells for 7 months, ending in November, with data on 240 wells to study future impacts of sea level rise
Oceania Vanuatu A workshop launched by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophone (AUF) on the theme "innovation" starts today and will involve students from across Vanuatu to help them be more creative and productive
Oceania Micronesia Sarah Al Amiri, UAE Minister of State for Advanced Technologies, visited the country's pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, looking at investment opportunities including the technology, renewable energy, transport and tourism sectors