Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine (right) greets then President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. Heine is currently one of only two women heads of state in the Pacific region. Credit: Office of the ...

We have a lot of evidence to go on, and I believe the chances are 9 out of 10 that it’s Amelia’s plane, but we won’t know ...

In a busy year of Pacific Island elections, a worrying gender disparity is evident. This has implications for the quality of democracy in the region.

Samoans could elect their first woman prime minister later this month in the rerun of an April general election that was ...

SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press the ...

It wasn’t only because of missionaries from the West, says a Tongan Australian theologian. Christian overseas missionaries were more successful in Oceania—the region spanning the Pacific Islands, ...

Beauty pageants remain serious business in the Pacific, but contestants are thinking twice before entering due to online ...

Tiger sharks were mostly seasonal visitors, especially mature females. Their peak residency was in the Austral summer (November to April), and they largely disappeared during the cooler months.