Oceania Palau Twenty-three Palau High School students experienced what it means to produce, publish and tell a story as journalists during a six-day workshop conducted by members of the Palau Media Council as part of a project called "Nurturing Future Journalists"
Oceania Papua New Guinea The Sponsor Portal, launched by the PNG Immigration and Citizenship Authority, merges the work permit and resident work visa: when applying for permission to work, it will be combined with an approval letter which is the permit to enter and work
Oceania Palau INTERPOL's General Assembly voted to admit the Republic of Palau as a new member country, bringing the total membership of the organisation to 196, a request approved by a majority of more than two-thirds of the votes
Oceania Micronesia Ava and Lawson Duce, two Canadian BYU students, are teaching at Akoyikoyi School in Chuuk to foster opportunities for children and youth in Chuuk which are extremely limited
Oceania Vanuatu Milroy Cainton, who works as an information and communication technology consultant, spent a week in China with the aim of introducing the Greater Bay Area, known as the Chinese Silicon Valley, to Vanuatu
Oceania Solomon Islands The permanent representatives of Solomon Islands and the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations signed a joint communiqué in New York to formally establish diplomatic relations between the two countries
Oceania New Zealand New Zealand's new right-wing coalition government is abandoning a world-leading plan to ban smoking for future generations, in a move that health experts say is a setback that will cost the country billions of dollars in health care
Oceania Nauru The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission will consider adopting a management procedure for skipjack tuna, but members of the Nauru Agreement Parties are hesitant to commit to it
Oceania Kiribati With a +14 GMT time making it the easternmost country of all, Kiribati is the first country to wake up today with a coverage of 100 dedicated lines in our website
Oceania Fiji Fiji has witnessed a significant decline in its workforce, with over 50.000 people leaving for overseas in the past 19 months, stated the Permanent Secretary of Fiji's Ministry of Finance at the Top Executive Conference in Nadi
Oceania Marshall Islands Two studies on the Marshall Islands conducted by the global fish value chain development initiative FISH4ACP show that investing in cold storage facilities and tuna loading equipment can turn the Marshall Islands into a tuna containerisation hub
Oceania Samoa Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment completed a two-week survey around Upolu and Savaii to document the presence of humpback whales as well as other whale and dolphin species in Samoan waters
Oceania Tonga A ground-breaking ceremony took place in Matatoa, Tofoa, marking the start of construction of a new National Early Warning and Emergency Response Centre under the Pacific Resilience Programme project