IMF, ADB set sights on damning US$37m Solomon Islands aid audit Report by auditor general found mismanagement and potential fraud in COVID-19 pandemic package payments.

Philippine court convicts 4 police officers for killings in Duterte drug war Victims’ families see convictions as “partial victory” in holding former president accountable for bloody anti-drug ...

Papua New Guinea’s opening of an embassy in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem has been condemned by Palestinian officials and by the Pacific island country’s opposition leader, who said it was a reckless ...

Unexploded WWII bombs plague Palau amid US military build-up UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new defense ...

US Coast Guard gets enhanced powers in Samoa’s waters Coast Guard officers will be able to board and inspect vessels without a Samoan law enforcement officer present.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s defense commitments to America’s Pacific territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands and that any attack on them ...

Negotiators for the Thai government and southern insurgents agreed to hold meetings later this month and in March to discuss an “improved” roadmap to peace as well as a Ramadan and Songkran ceasefire, ...

China discovers 100 million-ton oilfield in South China Sea: report The announcement came days after the U.S., Philippines, Japan staged naval training near a contested shoal.

Indonesian commission documents human rights abuses linked to new capital, other projects Komnas HAM lists 1,675 total cases stemming from land disputes, environmental damage since 2022.

Philippine official on Chinese incursions: Not ruling out another South China Sea lawsuit China has pushed Philippines “to the wall” leaving it with only drastic options to stop intimidation, official ...

Residents of one of the largest informal settlements in Papua New Guinea’s capital fear eviction and homelessness next year when a major road will be built through their community. Port Moresby and ...

Indigenous Orang Asli people who live in two villages in Kelantan are suing the government of the northern Malaysian state for allegedly allowing firms to run mining, logging and plantation operations ...