Oceania Papua New Guinea Continuing clashes between members of same Itokon clan living several km away from Wapenamanda town area have forced the Board and Management of PNG Air Limited to indefinitely suspend flights from Port Moresby to Wapenamanda Airport
Oceania Vanuatu The Vanuatu Intellectual Property Office has confirmed that Starlink has registered its trademark in Vanuatu and is in the process of obtaining a broadcast licence
Oceania Tuvalu Tuvalu's Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe, was received last week in Adelaide, Australia, to "discuss the common aspiration for a safe, prosperous and resilient blue Pacific"
Oceania Fiji Approximately 600 animals were desexed during the Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals' May clinic, says Shaneel Narayan, clinic and shelter manager of the SPCA
Oceania Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea-based Bank South Pacific has entered into a $60.000 agreement to become a bronze sponsor of the Solomon Islands 2023 Pacific Games
Oceania Tonga The Royal Agricultural, Fisheries, Tourism & Trade Show 2023 in Tongatapu was held with a team of Chinese agricultural experts, Chinese companies in Tonga and some Chinese entrepreneurs
Oceania Kiribati 13% of Kiribati's waste stream is plastic and recent studies indicate a plastic waste generation of 9,7 tonnes per day accumulating in landfills and the environment; the country has called for strong global commitment to solve the crisis
Oceania Solomon Islands The Adventist primary school in Tagibangara, northeast of Choiseul, benefited from a US$ 24.000 school improvement project involving the installation of a VSAT satellite internet dish, powered by a solar panel, a major technology upgrade
Oceania Micronesia Together with the Cook Islands, the country joined ministers from 56 countries to sign a ministerial declaration calling for an end to global plastic pollution by 2040
Oceania Marshall Islands New Marshall Islands Ambassador Anjanette Kattil was recently sworn in to begin her term as ambassador to Taiwan and non-resident ambassador to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore
Oceania Australia The final leg of the FIFA Women's World Cup Trophy Tour kicked off at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on 8 June to start the Australian Tour
Oceania Tuvalu Tuvalu has signed a technical cooperation agreement with Taiwan, which aims at expanding technical cooperation in areas such as digital transformation, information and communication technology and climate change
Oceania New Zealand The government has announced new measures to curb vaping among young people as it pushes to create a 'smoke-free generation'; new vape shops will have to be at least 300 metres from schools and vapers will have to change their branding