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Pacific urged to ‘stand together as a region’ against ‘external forces’
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 11, 2025
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has urged Pacific nations to “stand together as a region” against “external forces” seeking to “coerce, cajole and constrain”. Peters is in France attending a range of meetings with world...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
Pacific nations urged to 'stand together as a region' against 'external forces'
RNZ
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June 10, 2025
Winston Peters, French President Emmanuel Macron and Vanuatu Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu at the 6th Pacific-France Summit in Nice, France, June 2025. Photo: Jo Moir / RNZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters has urged Pacific nations to...
Set to Boil: A Silent South China Sea No Longer
19FortyFive
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April 28, 2025
The South China Sea is potentially a flashpoint for a regional armed conflict and a global war. The People’s Republic of China, now ramping up military production, looks to extend territorial ambitions into the South China Sea, which threatens...
Internet restrictions in overseas territories: Slower speeds, higher prices compared to France -
APA
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The Baku Initiative Group (BIG) has conducted a study on the deliberately implemented policies regarding the state of the internet, speed indicators, pricing policy, and digital restrictions in France’s overseas territories, APA reports. The study...
What 86% Of Ultra-Luxury Travelers Want, And How 3 Trips Get It Right
Forbes
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Aerial view of the Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia. The Brando 86% of ultra-luxury travelers define a vacation as a way to disconnect from work fully. Nearly all, 97%, plan to travel specifically to reduce stress, anxiety or fully unplug,...
UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters
Mongabay
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June 19, 2025
The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of thousands of species that live in marine waters and the communities that depend on the sea for work or sustenance. New...
How Cruisers Can Help Solve the Derelict Boat Crisis
Cruising World
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June 24, 2025
A half-sunken sailboat—one of many derelicts that endanger ecosystems and burden local communities—lies forgotten in a remote anchorage. Courtesy Wayne Williams, S/V Hope Imagine your anchor is set in a pristine anchorage. The sails are flaked,...
U.S. Rolled Back, While Small Island Nations Propose the Largest Ocean Reserve in History
The Victoria Advocate - Texas
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June 23, 2025
As of June 2025, just 2.7% of the global ocean is classified as fully or highly protected, according to The Marine Protection Atlas, while total marine protection is only 8.4%. The rollback of U.S. protections in April 2025, most notably the...
Scottish brothers on world record bid now closer to astronauts than humans on earth
The Herald (Scotland)
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May 23, 2025
Right now, they are approximately 2,700 nautical miles from Lima and the nearest inhabited land to them is Marquesas Island in French Polynesia, 1,150NM away. It means the International Space Station, which orbits around 400km above sea level, is...
This Bora Bora resort has overwater bungalows with plunge pools, hilltop spa and private island
AOL
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Courtesy of Conrad Bora Bora Nui Aerial view of the Conrad Bora Bora Nui. Conrad Bora Bora Nui The resort is located on a secluded island in the Bora Bora lagoon, and its guests have exclusive access to a picture-perfect palm-fringed private...
Pacific news in brief for 20 June 2025
RNZ
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June 19, 2025
An NGO carrying out testing on drugs at an event - including this this bag of cocaine, in Colombia, in 2021. Photo: AFP/ Juan Pablo Pino New Caledonia - cocaine The French Directorate General of Customs says 67 kilograms of cocaine has been seized...
Marine protections are having a ‘moment’ but did policymakers at the UN Oceans Conference seize it?
ENDS Report
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The Ocean with David Attenborough released last month, showed first-of-its-kind footage of the devastation caused by bottom trawling fishing, a method that involves dragging towed nets along the ocean floor. The film contrasted archival footage of...
The 19 best IHG hotels in the world
The Points Guy
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June 16, 2025
With over 6,600 hotels across more than 100 countries — close to a million rooms in all — and a robust pipeline of more than 2,200 properties in development, IHG Hotels & Resorts has a worldwide presence and continues its rapid pace of global...
New SNIJ Climate Coalition Gives Voice to Underrepresented Island Territories
I News Cayman
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June 19, 2025
Members of the Island Innovation team at #GSIS2025 in Saint Kitts and Nevis, last month. Express your interest in the Global Sustainable Islands Summit 2026 in Gran Canaria next year. Last week, the Island Innovation team attended the UN Ocean...
Off the beaten path: Sleeping in a Malaysian palm tree
The Newnan Times-Herald - Georgia
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My hotel in Kuala Lumpur was no more than 100 yards from the world’s tallest twin-tower buildings–the Petronas Towers. These two giant, parallel structures are connected by the iconic Skybridge that runs between the 41st and 42nd floors. During...
Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 22, 2025
Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....
Young Pacific leaders talanoa on Ocean Health
TP+
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May 19, 2025
John Pulu | Presenter/ Reporter/Director A youth leadership conference for young Pacific People was held in French Polynesia earlier this year. Focusing on ocean prosperity, security and sustainability, it was part of the ‘Young Pacific Leaders...
Global Ocean Summit in Nice ends with a raft of pledges for marine protection
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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June 18, 2025
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) pushed for stronger language on “loss and damage.”PHOTO/ Pablo_Marx, Flickr By PATRICK MAYOYO and Agencies newshub@eyewitness.africa The port of Nice echoed with the sound of foghorns on Friday – a brassy...
‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 20, 2025
McDiarmid and Haazen returned to Mejatto a year after the 1985 evacuation, and stayed for three months. When we land this time, there is a joyful reunion between the pair and several locals, including “aunties” now in their 40s and 50s who were...