"My name was on a handwritten piece of paper," she told the ABC. Ms Kanas was part of the Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant held last weekend. The event, this year hosted by Solomon Islands ...

Renewed efforts by the United States and China to strengthen their ties in the Pacific has thrown the spotlight on the islands scattered across the vast Pacific Ocean. While the US has long enjoyed ...

Tie-break vote in contest leads to claims of rigging, death threats and judges being prevented from leaving the Solomon Islands The Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant was supposed to show that ...

A Samoan judge in the Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant is being kept in Solomon Islands while pageant organisers investigate accusations of vote rigging. The judge says he has done nothing ...

New Zealand is considering the use of specific ‘strategic trust’ or national security clauses in agreements with Pacific Island nations, in an effort to counter China’s growing influence in the region ...

Leader of Cook Islands flies to Beijing to negotiate a security deal despite New Zealand warnings The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a ...

Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the ...

Fiji has been announced as the host for the 2026 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant, although Fiji did not participate in the 2025 competition, and in past recent years. The decision was revealed at the ...

It is a continuation of the 20-year South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project (SPSLCMP) The 14 Pacific Island countries participating in the project are the Cook Islands, Federated States ...

US aid freeze impacts Pacific Islands' clean energy, cooking, water projects Pacific aid organisations unable to pay staff US aid cuts risks losing influence to China, analysts warn China is ...

At the heart of the matter is a major deal set to be signed between the Cook Islands and China this week ... of China’s growing influence in the Pacific, which has alarmed the United States ...

Trump is one of the world’s most polarising figures. He can bring excitement; he can trigger anxiety. Even Pacific island leaders can’t be indifferent to the result of the US presidential elections.