Oceania Australia Swiss miner Glencore is considering shutting down two operations; though Mount Isa copper smelter and Townsville refinery directly employ 550 people, Dyno Nobel’s Hill 500, 17.000 jobs in the downstream activities in North Queensland could be in jeopardy
Oceania Micronesia Under new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeting numbers of potentially illegal aliens, latest unprecedented development is Micronesians being removed from the US to the offshore detention facility at the US Navy base in Guantánamo Bay
Oceania Vanuatu A seasonal worker from South Santo has invested around VT2,5 million, or €18.000, of his earnings, together with labour from community members, to build a gravity-fed water system for his village
Oceania Tonga The Tonga Women's Tennis has won the gold medal at the 2025 Oceania Tennis Federation Pacific Nations Cup, which took place earlier this July in Pago Pago, American Samoa
Oceania Papua New Guinea 9 rugby league players have been handed long bans form fields after a brawl broke out during a clash in Papua New Guinea National Rugby League Competition in Lae; 3 officials got 12 months suspension and the two clubs involved were fined over $6000
Oceania New Zealand One person has died and several others were stabbed in Hamilton city centre in a “disorder incident” at nighttime; Alexandra St between Collingwood and Hood Sts in the 7th largest town in NZ remained cordoned off in the morning
Oceania Samoa The second death of a child due to dengue fever has led authorities to extend school closures: all Early Childhood Education programs and Primary School classes for years 1 to 7 will be suspended until 25 July in a number of districts
Oceania Samoa The Samoa United Party, led by caretaker Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa, officially launched its election manifesto, confirming 26 candidates for the upcoming general election
Oceania Kiribati First National Employment Policy and Action Plan has been validated by the Government to transform local employment landscape; developed with the International Labour Organization support, it outlines a roadmap for inclusive and sustainable employment
Oceania Papua New Guinea The pervasive levels of violence in Papua New Guinea have become the priority of the Institute of National Affairs: executive director Paul Barker said that alongside increasing the number of police, the wider community must be taken in
Oceania Tuvalu Government decided that the US visa ban for Tuvaluans and the need to satisfy US requirements within 60 days was an "administrative and systemic error" and wants written confirmation from the US there will not be any restrictions placed on its citizens
Oceania Micronesia A MoU to expand the use of cargo through Nauru Airlines' Central Pacific route has been signed together with Palau and Marshall Islands to solve logistical, economic and geographic challenges faced by all of these small nations
Oceania Nauru Two landmark air carrier cooperation agreements involving Nauru Airlines were signed during the Micronesian Islands Forum in Majuro, one with Air Marshall Islands and one expanded use of Nauru Airlines cargo services with Palau, FSM, Marshall Islands