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Dr Alan Biribo, a seasoned neurosurgeon who has spent years devoted to championing health outcomes for Fijians, was recognised at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) 2024 Annual Scientific Congress

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SYDNEY - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters. Kiribati has not publicly announced the policing deal with China, which comes as Beijing renews a push to expand security ties in the Pacific Islands in an intensifying rivalry with the United States. Kiribati, a nation of 115,000 residents, is considered strategic despite bein

SYDNEY, Feb 23 — Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing...

Pacific nations, especially Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, are among the most vulnerable nations to be nearly entirely inundated by rising sea levels.

Conservation International is supporting a policy paper that is to be tabled to Cabinet, seeking the Government to recognize the Lau Seascape as a

The US has been racing to reopen embassies and deepen links with Pacific countries in the wake of a Solomons security pact with China

A key Pacific leader told Penny Wong last year that the region's respect for Indigenous culture "is what sets us apart from the rest of the world".

There are concerns the World Bank and ADB are giving contracts to low-price bidders who then demand more when budgets blow out