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Samoa police probe voter fraud ahead of August polls
RNZ
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June 17, 2025
The Office of the Electoral Commission conducting voter registrations in Auala, Vaisala, Fagasa, and Sataua in June. Photo: Office of the Electoral Commission - Samoa Samoa police are investigating multiple cases of voter fraud, the Samoa Observer...
AOSIS, LDCs say progress is too slow at Bonn climate negotiations
St. Vincent Times
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June 25, 2025
On Tuesday 24th June, the United Nations negotiating bloc for small island developing states, AOSIS, joined the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) at a press conference to raise the alarm on stalled talks in key areas at the UN 62nd Meeting of the...
Samoa Prepares For Snap Election In August As The Pacific Watches
Lekmak
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June 16, 2025
Samoa is facing a period of significant political upheaval following the collapse of Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa’s government, triggering a snap general election scheduled for August 29, 2025. The dramatic turn of events was set in motion...
Unlocking Sustainable Finance, Key to Transition Pacific SIDS Economies
Talamua
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June 19, 2025
Apia, Samoa – 20 June 2025 – A timely policy dialogue held this week in Apia discussed ways to unlock sustainable finance solutions for Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This is recognition of the critical role sustainable finance...
Decades of climate uncertainty: Cook Islands grower speaks
Cook Island News
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June 18, 2025
After more than 30 years of farming on her Takuvaine plantation, Jean Tekura Mason says climate change has disrupted everything she understood about farming. “I’ve been a planter, gardener for over 30 years basically and what I’ve noticed over...
Shirley Botchwey
The Round Table
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July 11, 2025
Listening to Sir Ronald Sanders’ magisterial lecture in July, on the life and legacy of Sir Shridath Ramphal, it was hard not to think with sympathy of our new Commonwealth Secretary-General, H E Shirley Botchwey. Her challenge now, to revive and...
University of Newcastle ranked 2nd in World for Climate Action
The University of Newcastle Australia
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The University of Newcastle’s strong commitment to sustainability has been recognised globally, with the university ranking second in the world for Climate Action in the 2025 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. Solar panels on the University's...
Poutasi Development Trust project gets a Boost from National Bank of Samoa
Samoa Global News
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June 18, 2025
The work of the Poutasi Development Trust (PDT) project has received a boost from the National Bank of Samoa. The Poutasi project, run by community leader afioga Tuatagaloa Joe Annandale, is a charitable organisation in Samoa focused on the...
PNG RED CROSS’S ‘WALKING DICTONARY’ RETIRES AFTER 32 YEARS OF SERVICE
PNG Haus Bung
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July 11, 2025
Today the 11th of July 2025 is the day Janet Philemon will close her office door at the Papua New Guinea Red Cross for the last time. It will mark the end of a 32-year journey through some of the toughest times in PNG Red Cross Society’s history,...
Global Voices: 40 Years on from the Bombing of Rainbow Warrior
Samoa Global News
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July 10, 2025
The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace, By: David Robie. The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy. But a greater tragedy...
UNOC3: Nations adopt declaration to support implementation of goal to conserve, sustainably use oceans
Down to Earth
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Nations also agreed to strengthen the provision of scaled-up resources in these countries, including public, grant-based and concessional finance, non-debt instruments and other concessional finance from multilateral development banks like the...
Australia rallies behind the Pacific in Push for Ambitious Plastics Treaty
Pacific News Service
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Australia has reaffirmed its commitment to working with Pacific island countries to secure a legally binding, meaningful and effective global treaty to end plastic pollution by 2040. Representatives progressed efforts during the Pacific Regional...
Navy’s Pacific Partnership mission kicks off 6-month run with Pearl Harbor stop
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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The USS Pearl Harbor, a 600-foot-long amphibious dock landing ship that will serve as flagship for the Pacific Partnership mission, is moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on July 10, 2025. (Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes) JOINT BASE...
UTOS declares SAT$10.95m dividend
Talamua
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July 10, 2025
Apia, Samoa – 11 July 2025 – The Unit Trust of Samoa (UTOS) has announced a dividend payment of 08 sene per unit to its unitholders for the financial year ending 30″June 2025. The annual dividend distribution is a testament to the Trust’s...
Coca-Cola announces stunning results of innovative customer reward program: 'We're delighted'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 10, 2025
"That number has more than doubled." by Antonella Gina FleitasJuly 10, 2025 A recycling program in Samoa is showing what's possible when a community comes together for the planet. According to Packaging Europe, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners...
UTOS Announces Total Divided Distribution of over $10 Million for its Unit Holders
Samoa Global News
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July 9, 2025
10 June 2025, Apia Samoa. The Unit Trust of Samoa is pleased to announce that it has closed off another successful and profitable financial year. The Unit Trust of Samoa (Trust) is pleased to announce a dividend payment of 0.08 sene per unit to...
Major progress – but still gaps – in shark and ray conservation
Dive Magazine
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July 10, 2025
A pair of blacktip reef sharks (Photo: Kimberly Jeffries/WCS) A new study led by scientists from Florida International University (FIU) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has found that there has been substantial progress in implementing...
Australia Commits $15 Million to Boost Palau’s Renewable Energy Project
Island Times
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July 11, 2025
By: Eoghan Olkeriil Ngirudelsang KOROR, Palau (July 10, 2025) — Australia has pledged $15 million to support the next phase of Palau’s transition to renewable energy, with funds designated to secure a battery energy storage system for the nation’s...
They need to listen and act now: Pacific countries ramp up…
Pacific News Service
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Pacific countries have taken a critical step to finalise their priorities as they ramp up the call for a high-ambition treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. Ahead of the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental...
Pacific leaders address U.S deportation distress and regional unity at Micronesian meeting
Island Times
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July 11, 2025
MAJURO (PMN) — The latest wave of deportations of Pacific people from the United States was among a range of issues discussed at the recent Micronesian Islands Forum in the Marshall Islands. The three-day summit brought together leaders from...