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Pacific Mini Games to Unite Region through sports and sister state partnerships
Island Times
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June 13, 2025
KOROR, Palau – Palau is preparing to host its largest-ever regional event, the 22nd Pacific Mini Games, with more than 2,000 athletes confirmed to participate—making it the most attended Mini Games in over a decade. Two thousand eighty-five...
Historic OFC debut for Kiribati
Football in Oceania
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June 11, 2025
Kiribati will take part in its first ever OFC Forum in Fiji later this month. The news was announced earlier this week in a press release, and is made possible by a partnership between the brands Young Pioneer Tours, Unchartered Football, Stingz,...
Kiribati's considerable kava consumption - and concerns
RNZ
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May 29, 2025
Vanuatu kava growers at work Photo: Hilaire Bule Kiribati was the world's largest consumer of Vanuatu kava in 2024. The Vanuatu Daily Post reported that last year the country imported 280 metric tonnes of kava from Vanuatu. Michael Louze, former...
Newcastle v Everton Live TV – Global channel listings on Sunday
The Mag
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May 22, 2025
Around the world, here are the channels you can watch Newcastle v Everton Live TV. The global TV listings are featured below for local (to you) coverage on Sunday (4pm (UK) kick-off). The Newcastle United players looking to make it seven home...
NMI weightlifters look to extend medal streak in Palau
Marianas Variety
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(Northern Marianas Sports Association) — Here’s some trivia: NMI weightlifters have reached the medal podium in their last five regional events, starting from 2014. In the Micronesian Games in 2014 in Pohnpei, the NMI Weightlifting Team collected...
Know your team
The Fiji Times
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June 11, 2025
PARA Athletics: A Journey of Perseverance Team Fiji’s Para Athletics contingent has been an unsung hero to Team Fiji’s Athletics program. The athletes, who have overcome significant physical challenges, have shown incredible dedication and...
Australia-PNG relations at 50: Pride, politics and the price of partnership
The Interpreter
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June 12, 2025
Papua New Guinea kicked off a festival of 50th anniversary independence celebrations last month with breathless fanfare that will run well into the rest of the year. The national milestone will fall on 16 September 2025. Billboards have sprung up...
Pacific tourism booms in the first quarter. Is it a blip?
The Pacific Island Times
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June 10, 2025
International travel has already exceeded global expectations this year and hopes are sky high heading into summer. As the northern hemisphere enters its summer vacation season, the southern and eastern parts of the globe are expecting a gold...
Sushi Wars: Maritime Food Security, Criminal Networks and Geopolitical Risk
Fair Observer
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June 10, 2025
The 21st century’s most overlooked security crisis is unfolding beneath the waves. The Stephenson Ocean Security (SOS) Project, a forward-looking initiative by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, seeks to illuminate the...
Women from 195 countries break record for equality song
Xinhua News Agency
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GENEVA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The Frequency School set a new Guinness World Record for the most nationalities contributing vocals to a single musical recording, with the release of the song "195" on Monday, highlighting global unity and gender...
The Frequency School Breaks GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM Title For The 195 Song Featuring The Most Nationalities
MENAFN
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June 2, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) The Frequency School co-founded by U.S. Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum music producer Maejor, Martina Fuchs, Kingsley M, Brandon Lee and Aaron Dawson produced this visionary, powerful and universal campaign and premiered...
Six new dames and knights in honours
Otago Daily Times
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June 1, 2025
A total of 188 New Zealanders who have made their mark on New Zealand have received awards for their services, in the King's Birthday Honours list released today. There are 88 women and 100 men drawn from areas including arts and media, business,...
Honolulu Civil Beat: Lifeblood for Pacific islands threatened as warming ocean drives tuna east
Spectrum Bay News 9 - Florida
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June 6, 2025
Editor’s Note: Here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, signs that climate change has arrived are all around us. We see it in our disappearing beaches, the flooding of our homes, the ever-looming menace of wildfire. For us, climate change is more...
Opening a new chapter in China-Pacific relations
CGTN
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, co-hosts the Third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers' Meeting with Kiribati's President and Foreign Minister...
Australia green-lights Woodside carbon bomb, despite climate concerns and Pacific plea
Islands Business
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May 29, 2025
A government minister in Kiribati is worried that the amount of kava being imported and consumed is threatening the country’s development and peoples’ way of life. The concern was sparked by a Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper report saying Kiribati...
2025 Indianapolis 500: Full Race Day Schedule, Start Time, Lineup, Performers and How to Watch 109th Indy 500
Time Bulletin
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May 24, 2025
The 109th Indianapolis 500 is the biggest single-day sporting event in the world, and since all grandstand seats are sold out, it’s too late to buy a ticket to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. On Sunday, May 25, 2025, the 109th Indianapolis 500...
What Time Is The Indy 500? How To Watch The Marquee Race Of The Year
Forbes
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The grandstands are sold out for the 109th Indianapolis 500. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)Getty Images INDIANAPOLIS – The largest single day sporting event in the world is Sunday’s 109th Indianapolis 500 and it’s too late to buy a ticket...
COP31: an opportunity to widen climate conversations to include cultural and heritage protection
Croakey Health Media
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June 5, 2025
If Adelaide is selected to host COP31, it will be an opportunity to centre the lived experience of climate breakdown, which is evident across South Australia, according to the authors below. “Climate change is not only a scientific and technical...
Ocean With David Attenborough: The Untold Story In Our Exclusive Interview
Innovation & Tech Today
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June 5, 2025
As the world prepares to celebrate World Ocean Day, National Geographic is making waves with the premiere of Ocean with David Attenborough—a feature documentary debuting June 7th on National Geographic and streaming globally the next day on...
King's Birthday Honours: Dai Henwood, Tim Southee and Jude Dobson among those recognised
RNZ
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June 1, 2025
Clockwise from top left: Dr Maxine Ronald, Tim Southee, Ranjna Patel and Dai Henwood. Photo: RNZ / PhotoSport / Warner Brothers Discovery A total of 188 New Zealanders who have made their mark on New Zealand have been awarded for their services,...