- CNMI governor formally requests Section 902 talks with US president (KUAM News)
- ‘We are headed in the right direction,’ says Palau president in State of the Republic address (Pacific Island Times)
- Guam and Palau sign state partnership administered by National Guard Bureau (KUAM News)
- Concerns raised over Kiribati judiciary after gov’t moves to expel Australian High Court judge (RNZ)
- PNG PM accepts invitation to attend Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting in Tokyo (Post-Courier)
- New Caledonia voter eligibility amendment faces fresh debate in French Parliament (RNZ)
- Former diplomat Jeremiah Manele elected as new Solomon Islands prime minister (ABC Australia)
- Fiji undertakes first national consultation on key regional initiatives for 2024 (PACNEWS)
- Samoa’s electoral commissioner reports missing records for 80% of names on 2021 electoral roll (Islands Business)
- Hawaiʻi is first US state to pass dual Gaza ceasefire resolutions (Asia-Pacific Report)
- Hundreds of ancestral remains held in Australian institutions with few plans for repatriation to Pacific Islands (ABC Australia)
- 'Pacific Islands are a very challenging place to roll out vaccines' - UNICEF (RNZ)
- Pacific Youth Council convenes in Fiji to chart new course for youth development (SPC)
- State of emergency sought for Guam hospital, governor asks National Guard chief to handle crisis (Pacific Island Times)
- Pacific Islands regional workshop convenes in Fiji to enhance teachers’ skills, knowledge (Fiji Village)
- Vanuatu’s human rights record to be examined by UN Human Rights Council working group (PACNEWS)
- Chinese medical team provides free medical services, medicine on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu (Vanuatu Daily Post)
- Cook Islands traditional canoe Vaka Marumaru Atua sets sail for FestPAC in Hawaiʻi (Cook Islands News)
- Samoa health ministry reports 34 new dengue cases, fumigation efforts continue (Talamua)
- Cook Islanders invited to discuss health bill, medical cannabis access (Cook Islands News)
- More than 1,000 families in Samoa to benefit from USAID-backed emergency response project (RNZ)
- Pacific Islands region sees abnormal impacts of El Niño and return to neutral conditions (PACNEWS)
- Pacific Islands delegates call for legally binding obligations in global plastics treaty (Pacific Island Times)
- NWS: Guam experiencing extreme drought, other parts of Micronesia subregion experiencing exceptional drought (Pacific Daily News)
- Fiji and Japan reaffirm partnership for sustainable fisheries with equipment donation, pledge (FBC News)
- IOM, USAID, USIP deliver disaster preparedness training in Lae, Papua New Guinea (PNG Post-Courier)
- Capsizing of Tuvalu boat carrying vaccines highlights climate change challenges, UNICEF says (Islands Business)
- Cook Islands PM calls for stronger ocean science at Ocean Decade Conference (Cook Islands News)
- Hazard alert issued to mariners while Tofua volcano monitoring continues in Tonga (Matangi Tonga)
- After Lāhainā wildfire, Indigenous peoples call for self-determination (Grist)
- Pacific job market shows resilience amidst challenges, ILO report shows (Islands Business)
- Australia's new Pacific Engagement Visa registration opens on June 3 (RNZ)
- Farmer demand for Pacific Islander seasonal workers is falling in Australia (ABC Australia)
- HK Airlines resumes Saipan service; hotel group ‘ecstatic’ about return of Chinese tourists to CNMI (Pacific Island Times)
- Bank of Hawaiʻi renews commitment to Palau, vows investment (Island Times)
- Vanuatu internal affairs minister raises concerns over ni-Vanuatu in Australian prisons (Islands Business)
- Korea International Cooperation Agency enhances support for Fiji’s development priorities (FBC News)
- Indonesian state electricity firm ready to provide power to PNG’s Wutung border post, nearby villages (Loop PNG)
- Samoa PM opens Samoa Tourism Exchange with more than 100 tourism partners (Samoa Observer)
- Hawaiʻi to receive $1 billion Google investment for undersea internet cable upgrades (HPR)
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This non-exhaustive news roundup is organized with the thematic areas of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent and its implementation plan.
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