The disaster highlights the often precarious conditions for Thailand’s migrant workers.

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

Campaigners want an international agreement to limit the production and supply of plastics.

Land clearance was underway even before the feasibility study was completed

Military-led project also risks stirring resentment in easternmost Papua region, researchers say.

Solomon Islanders queued to vote in the rain and under a boiling sun, undeterred by fickle weather on election day and optimistic their voices will matter in the economically-lagging nation where China and the United States are in a sharp-elbowed…

The upcoming Solomon Islands election will decide if Manasseh Sogavare, its combative, pro-Beijing prime minister can secure a consecutive term and entrench the Pacific island country’s recent shift into China’s orbit. For many observers, the April…

John Palmer says he got a wheelbarrow, a small solar panel and a sheet of corrugated roofing after voting for his member of parliament two elections ago in 2014. Besides that, he can’t figure what the government or his local politician have done in a…

For an attention-grabbing speech to the 2022 U.N. climate conference, a Tuvalu cabinet minister stood on one of the atoll nation’s smallest islands and predicted it could be the first to be submerged by rising seas. The filament of land, known as Te…

Finance minister who took part in unauthorized launch of cryptocurrency exchange was replaced in September. 2023.11.29 Apia, Samoa (Stephen Wright/BenarNews) When the first direct tourist flight from China to Samoa landed in the Pacific island…

At a slickly choreographed event in Hong Kong on April 26, the island nation of Samoa was introduced to a vision of its future: cryptocurrency and stock trading epicenter of the South Pacific. Chinese officials and businessmen made speeches – their…

This recent undated photo shows a land reclamation project underway in Tuvalu’s capital and most populated atoll Funafuti. Mostly funded by the United Nations Development Programme, the reclamation will create the highest elevation land in Funafuti.…

Tuvalu is the world’s fourth smallest country, four times smaller than #disneyworld, and it’s at risk of disappearing under rising sea levels.The UNDP projects that by 2050, half of this nation’s main atoll will be flooded by tidal waters. To…

20 orang penganut Ahmadiyah tinggal di negara terkecil di dunia. Mereka mendapatkan hak atas ibadah dan memeluk agama. Salah satu agama paling dipersekusi, menemukan tempat berlindungnya. BenarNews Indonesian official site:…

Egianus Kogoya gestures while sitting on a captured Susi Air plane in the central highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, Feb. 7, 2023. The kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot in Indonesia’s volatile Papua region is the latest in a series of…

An apartment building in a compound of high-end residences in Bangkok is seen in this Jan. 18, 2022 photo. The Pacific island nation of Nauru rented a home in the compound for its consul-general to Thailand, his family and staff, but Chinese…

A security guard checks vehicles entering and exiting a compound of high-end residences in Bangkok, Jan. 18, 2022. The Pacific island nation of Nauru rented a home in the compound for its consul-general to Thailand, his family and staff, but Chinese…

This one-lane bridge links Auki, the capital of Malaita province in the Solomon Islands, to areas to the north, Nov. 21, 2022. China’s money isn’t welcome in Malaita, a fiercely independent province of the Solomon Islands led by a politician who says…

Papuans demonstrate against the Indonesian government in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta, Aug. 28, 2019. Pacific island nations have tempered their protests against Indonesia’s rule in its volatile Papua region, a possible sign that…

Parliamentary committee could recommend vote among lawmakers or referendum to adopt Māori name WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The first European contact with indigenous Māori ended with four sailors killed and a hasty retreat. But it led to an identity for…