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US Sides with Nauru on Deep-Sea Mining, Splitting Pacific Leaders
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
By: Bernadette Carreon NAURU – The United States has thrown its weight behind Nauru’s push to fast-track deep-sea mining, backing a Canadian partner’s bid despite warnings from other Pacific nations about risks to fragile ocean ecosystems. The...
Nowhere to run: Why Singapore needs to start protecting its coasts now
The Straits Times
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August 15, 2025
SINGAPORE – In one of the most climate-threatened corners of the planet lies a small island nation, its shores being eaten away by rising sea levels. Home to some 10,000 people, Tuvalu – located between Hawaii and Australia – is dealing with...
Nauru starts selling passports to fund climate action
The Manila Times
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August 7, 2025
SYDNEY, Australia — A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world’s smallest...
Nauru sells first passports to help fund relocations as sea levels rise
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 7, 2025
Australia's Pacific neighbour, Nauru, has sold its first passports as part of a program raising funds for the relocation of residents affected by rising sea levels. The tiny island nation launched the scheme in February but it only approved its...
Pacific microstate Nauru sells first passports to fund climate action
Inquirer
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August 7, 2025
This photograph taken on September 2, 2018 shows a beach view in Ewa on the Pacific island of Nauru. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse SYDNEY — A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to...
Pacific Islands Forum:
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
Leaders from 18 Pacific countries will gather in the Solomon Islands next month for the annual Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). But why is such engagement important? According to Sione Tekiteki, a former PIF adviser and senior...
Nauru seeks transform its economy by becoming a cryptocurrency powerhouse
RNZ
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July 27, 2025
Nauru's Command Ridge Virtual Asset Authority creates a licensing and regulatory scheme for digital asset transfers, including cryptocurrency lending and exchange. Photo: RNZ Pacific / AFP An Australian finance director has flown to Nauru with...
Nauru could earn millions after backing U.S deep sea mining pathway
Island Times
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July 22, 2025
KINGSTON/YAREN (RNZ PACIFIC) — Nauru is a step closer to mining in international waters under highly contentious United States legislation. The path has been set out in the nation’s new agreement with Canadian mining group The Metals Company (TMC)...
Friends to all: Nauru-Australia security treaty brings confidence and stability
The Strategist
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July 28, 2025
At a time when many Pacific leaders are expressing concerns about the impacts of geopolitical competition in their respective countries and the region, the government of Nauru, led by President David Adeang, has opted to sign a comprehensive...
New world-class health services will transform Nauru, says government
Marianas Variety
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A MONTH after the Government of Nauru announced a ground breaking strategic partnership with UAE company Global Mission Support Services or GMSS to take over the management and delivery of the country’s health services, the results have already...
Nauru could earn millions after backing US deep sea mining pathway
RNZ
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July 17, 2025
The Metals Company Photo: Facebook / The Metals Company Nauru is a step closer to mining in international waters under highly contentious United States legislation. The path has been set out in the nation's new agreement with Canadian mining group...
Pacific Islands race to contain 'largest dengue fever outbreak in a decade', as disease kills 18 people
Samoa News
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August 14, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dengue fever has struck countries across the Pacific, where health authorities have recorded 23,500 suspected cases and 16,000 laboratory confirmed cases this year. The mosquito-borne illness has killed 18 people,...
Tiny Nauru is causing big waves over mining
RNZ
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July 23, 2025
An image from the National Oceanography Centre shows a carnivorous sponge, photographed during an expedition to the NE Pacific abyss and found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). A recent executive order by US President Donald Trump could open...
New Zealand and Australian leaders discuss stronger military ties against China
World Socialist Web Site
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August 15, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon [Photo: AP/Jason Edwards, Finnish Government]Australia’s Labor Party Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with New Zealand’s right-wing National Party Prime Minister...
Pacific Islands Forum: Expert on why region’s ‘Mini-UN’ matters
Pacific News Service
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Leaders from 18 Pacific countries will gather in the Solomon Islands next month for the annual Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). But why is such engagement important? According to Sione Tekiteki, a former PIF adviser and senior...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 8 – August 14, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 15, 2025
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Pacific Islands race to contain 'largest dengue fever outbreak in a decade'
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
When all four of Taloa Lam Shong's children were struck down with dengue fever in Samoa, she was on high alert. "I was scared and worried, knowing dengue fever had claimed children's lives," she said. Nearly 8,000 people have been diagnosed with...
Leaked Treasury document shows housing the primary concern of Chalmers’ roundtable
Crikey
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August 13, 2025
ROUNDTABLE PICTURE BECOMING CLEARER Following endless kite-flying exercises, announcements that everything is on the table (followed by announcements that actually maybe not), claims the prime minister and treasurer had to have private talks to...
Biomanufacturing: Scale-up vs Scale-out Economics
BioPharma Dive
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4 major trends shaping today’s oncology market
BioPharma Dive
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