Oceania Palau As the Belau National Hospital is at risk because of the impacts of climate change, a committee has been set up to examine a suitable location for a new hospital building
Oceania Marshall Islands Tuna fishermen from purse seiners have been vaccinated against Covid-19; the Ministry of Health and Human Services administered 757 vaccines to commercial fishing crews in the past 3 months
Oceania Australia The UN's top climate adviser joins those calling on the country to rapidly phase out coal, still used so largely as to produce about 80% of the nation's electricity
Oceania Tuvalu The country is one of a dozen where there are no women serving in senior positions in government, such as Afghanistan after the recent Taliban coup, but also Saudi Arabia, Armenia and Yemen
Oceania Papua New Guinea The country has decided to grant a licence to a state-owned company to develop a gas field, preferring to keep control and income from the resources within the government rather than give a foreign private company the rights to develop the new project
Oceania Micronesia President David Panuelo said he will continue to work for his nation without fear despite an alleged death threat against him over his government's vaccination mandate
Oceania Nauru An Air Service Agreement was signed with Palau for the start of travel routes, thus increasing economic opportunities and mutual exchange between the two countries
Oceania Solomon Islands After 94 years as a branch of the Scout Association of the United Kingdom, the Solomon Islands Scout Association is now independent and is the 172nd member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
Oceania New Zealand Supermarket chain Countdown has temporarily removed knives from its shelves after a knife-wielding terrorist injured seven people in an Auckland shopping centre; PM Ardern has promised new anti-terrorism laws by the end of the month
Oceania Tonga The integrated delivery of public services in the country and Fiji, known as the REACH project, financially supported by Japan, is assisting government responses to the pandemic and raising public awareness on health themes
Oceania Palau Micronesian countries are looking to Palau as a leader in the success of the tourism bubble, stated the president of Nauru, pointing out that travel bubbles could be a model to emulate to reopen borders and welcome visitors during pandemic
Oceania Kiribati Enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine to inoculate all eligible people in the country have arrived and are stored, government affirms
Oceania Samoa More than 300 civil servants who are members of the Public Service Association gathered for a meeting closed to the public at Tuutuuileloloto Hall, Mulivai, exercising their right of association by coming together as a workers' union