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Take Control of Your Cash Flow: Proven Strategies for AR Leaders
CFO Dive
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Water pollutants 'close' to crisis levels near Sydney, researcher finds
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 6, 2025
An urban water scientist is raising concerns about the quality of treated effluent discharged at sewage treatment plants (STPs) operating in the catchment that provides Sydney's drinking water. University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Ian...
Drowning nations: Kiribati and the South Pacific’s fight for survival
Irish Examiner
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August 29, 2025
When the tide comes in on Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, it often spills straight into people’s homes. Saltwater seeps into wells, flooding gardens where staple crops like taro once thrived. Families wake to waves crashing closer and closer to...
Waitt Institute founder honoured in Vanuatu as coral reef study released
Pacific News Service
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Vanuatu President Nikenike Vurobaravu has awarded the country’s highest civilian honour to international ocean conservationist Ted Waitt, coinciding with the release of Blue Prosperity Vanuatu’s findings from the most extensive coral reef study...
Power of Vanuatu volcanoes draws scholar halfway around the world
The Pacific Island Times
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August 1, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff (University of Auckland)-- The major eruption of Vanuatu’s Kuwae volcano in the mid-1500s continues to echo through generations, first through oral stories, and now through scientific research. University of...
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Croakey Health Media
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August 28, 2025
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 22 – August 28, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 29, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
What do you do after your student project has gone to the ICJ?
The Spinoff
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August 27, 2025
Solomon Yeo grew up in the Solomon Islands. At university, he became inspired by the possibility of international law to spur climate action. Now the International Court of Justice has made a ruling, what comes next? In 2019, Solomon Yeo was in...
The LDC graduation conundrum
Daily Star
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August 28, 2025
The least developed countries (LDCs) have been struggling to graduate to developing nations for years. But at the same time, these countries fear losing preferential trade, exports, and employment. So, they hesitate and step back even after...
Can the Asia-Pacific Region Deliver Clean, Affordable Energy by 2030?
Inter Press Service
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August 28, 2025
Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment Opinion Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is United Nations...
The third world’s LDC conundrum
Daily Star
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August 28, 2025
The least developed countries (LDCs) have been struggling to graduate to developing nations for years. But at the same time, these countries fear losing preferential trade, exports, and employment. So, they hesitate and step back even after...
Solomon Islands outlines key priorities as Forum Chair
The Islandsun
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August 28, 2025
BY NED GAGAHE Co-Chair of the National Organizing Committee for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting Colin Beck has outlined key priorities such as political leadership, peace and security, economic development, and climate change as central...
Fifteen new local projects launched under the Kiwa Initiative to…
IUCN
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The newly awarded projects are spread across ten Pacific Island countries and territories; New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Palau, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, and Wallis & Futuna. Together, they reflect...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers Meeting concludes in Honiara with strong regional commitments
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Ministers to the PWWA Ministers Forum- Photo credit: Solomon Islands Government The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded yesterday in Honiara, with Ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories...
Pacific Water Ministers Meeting Concludes with Strong Regional Commitments
Tavuli News
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August 27, 2025
Wednesday 27 August 2025, Honiara – The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded yesterday in Honiara, with ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories committing to urgent action to strengthen water and...
The UN’s Krazy Kangaroo Klimate Kourt
Townhall
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August 23, 2025
Vanuatu and other “climate vulnerable” island nations claim they are threatened by rising seas and worsening typhoons caused by fossil fuel use. In response to an emotional petition from them and law students at the University of the South...
Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers Meeting concludes
Solomon Star
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August 27, 2025
The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded on Tuesday in Honiara, with Ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories committing to urgent action to strengthen water and sanitation across the region. The...
Australia tops new list of most expensive passports in the world - but here's the list of countries it will get you into without a visa
Daily Mail
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August 24, 2025
By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 | Updated: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 The Australian passport has been revealed as the most expensive in the world for the second year in a row, but research suggests...
Pacific Journalists trained on climate reporting and AI at AIBD
NBC PNG
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CNN Indonesia climate journalist Dewi Safiritni says climate change is the biggest threat to humanity (NBC News: Solomon Sumb) Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity at the moment, and especially for small island developing states, where...