Oceania Papua New Guinea Six citizens will travel to Australia for specialised training to enhance Papua New Guinea's entry into the global organic market through a collaboration between the Australian government and Paradais Review Services, a PNG-based accreditation provider
Oceania Australia An enquiry will be set to modernise organ donation laws: current Australia's definition of death prevents organ transplants from using the latest technologies, key to the best results
Oceania Nauru Two stars of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters, Will 'Bull' Bullard and Cherelle 'Torch' George, embark on a sports diplomacy tour through Nauru and Fiji
Oceania Micronesia The country is seeking to expand its tuna industry by securing greater access to the international market and reforming its foreign investment policies
Oceania Samoa A proposal was made to set up a Drug Control Council, with the task of monitoring drugs entering national borders, with particular attention to ingredients used in the production of illicit drugs
Oceania Fiji Fiji needs to attract at least 20% of its yearly gross domestic product in investments to trigger the country's economic growth, stressed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce
Oceania Marshall Islands The naming ceremony and upcoming handing over of the first wind-propulsion, the SV Juren Ae, wa held in Korean shipyard; it's Pacific Island Sailing Supply vessel for domestic sea transportation in the Marshall Islands and in the Pacific Region
Oceania Nauru The country is considering exchanging Australian dollars for the Chinese yuan in the latest part of the region's banking diplomacy game
Oceania Papua New Guinea The integration of various cloud services, including the allocation of IP addresses, DNS, websites and e-mail solutions, for more than 140 government agencies has been accelerated by the Department of Information and Communications Technology
Oceania Solomon Islands The region's largest locally-led climate adaptation project was launched in Honiara under the name Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages
Oceania Tuvalu A groundbreaking dialogue on plastics took place during the fourth Clean Pacific Round Table; Minister of National Resources and Agriculture, Sa'aga Talu Teafa, emphasised the serious impact of plastic pollution on Tuvalu
Oceania Kiribati A recycling operation for used lead batteries in Kiribati, which removed 7000 tonnes of toxic waste from the island over a 20-year period, could be replicated and used in other Pacific nations to manage hazardous waste
Oceania New Zealand National datasets on rare diseases will be created as part of the Ministry of Health strategy to better support people living with these conditions