NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...

The Pacific Islands region in the Southwest Pacific has emerged as an area of keen interest to major powers, largely due to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) expanding engagement in the region.

For much of India’s modern foreign policy, the Pacific Islands have not been a central strategic focus. Shifts in global trade, connectivity, and regional competition are now elevating the region’s ...

Sea levels are rising faster in the western tropical Pacific because of where the melting ice from western Antarctica heads, warmer waters, and ocean currents, UN officials said. Highlighting seas ...

The reliance of island countries and territories on imported oil is expected to hit economic growth and increase inflation ...

The vast Pacific Ocean spans one-third of Earth’s surface, dotted with thousands of islands scattered across distances that ...

As strategic competition intensifies across the Pacific, emerging regional voices are redefining what security, partnership, ...

This year’s Pacific Islands Forum marked the beginning of a more dangerous era as Pacific leaders tried to find common responses to both the climate crisis and sharpening geostrategic competition.

Low-lying atolls in the Pacific Ocean have long been considered some of the most vulnerable areas to climate change, as rising sea levels threaten to submerge them. But over the past decade, ...

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