Oceania

A national drug rehabilitation centre will be set up, after cases treated at St Giles Psychiatric Hospital have doubled over the years and drug abuse and addiction have increased to unprecedented levels

Black Construction Corp celebrated its 65th anniversary in the Micronesian islands and beyond with military construction projects and major works in island communities

Kiribati Assembly Speaker Tangariki Reete held talks with China's top legislator Zhao Leji to renew bilateral relations

Considering both cold and flu, influenza cases are rising at the Belau National Hospital, especially in children and adolescents aged 15 years and under

Ebeye students recently took part in a robotics event at Jabro Gymnasium, where they were trained to build and programme robots from scratch

The government is introducing legislation to terminate a diplomatic lease for the Russian embassy near Parliament House in Canberra on national security grounds

The community is apprehensive over the disappearance of an 80-year-old man from Samoa, still missing after a two-month search

Some defendants in trials can have their names withheld from public view under 'name suppression' rules, which protect not only the victims, but also the accused and the conduct of the trial

Telstra, a leading telecommunications company, is celebrating Change Maker Week, a global initiative to give back to the community; as part of this, Digicel Nauru, one of Telstra's companies, organised several activities to support the local community

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

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

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"