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The drugs, with a street value of FJ$2billion, were seized in January 2024 during a raid on a vacant house under construction in the tourist down of Nadi.

Rae is expected to become a severe tropical cyclone later on Monday.

Two cyclones have formed in the Pacific region one in Fiji waters, and the other in the Coral Sea.

Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Prime Minister Rabuka's decision and is demanding the Fijian government "immediately reverse this provocative decision."

Pacific Blue Line collective, made up of women, youth, faith-based, and environmental organisations, is demanding "for an outright ban on deep sea mining" as Pacific leaders meet in Fiji.

Fijian police commissioner Rusiate Tudravu says the force is focused on "disrupting, destabilising and dismantling" home-based illicit drug production labs in the country.

The BPNG board said it has not been presented with any material to doubts about the integrity of Elizabeth Genia. Audio

The president of the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville says recent flare-ups of gun-related violence are unacceptable.

The Cook Islands prime minister says he is aware of the strong interest in the outcomes of his visit to China.

The Solomon Islands government has lifted the 'stop notice' that restricted judges of the recent Miss Pacific Islands Pageant from leaving the country.

Leiataualesa Jerry Brunt has been at the centre of controversy following the crowning night of the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands, which was won by Samoa's Litara Ieremia-Allan.

He is the country's fifth prime minister in four years and will lead a coalition government made up of five political parties.

The Samoa Victim Support Group is calling on Samoan families and communities to take child abuse seriously.

Laijipa Naulivou told local media that "this gay problem" was one of the reasons the women's national team was underperforming.

A US policy expert is calling Donald Trump's shut down of the United States Agency for International Development 'completely unprecedented' and alarming.

Laijipa Naulivou, the first woman to captain the Fijian women's rugby team, told the Fiji Sun that "being gay for women in rugby" is something she opposed during her playing days.

The People's Alliance Party has given the former Fiji Women and Children's Minister, who was sacked from Cabinet after the leak of a private video of her dancing naked, another chance.

"The strong bonds between Kiribati and New Zealand will enable a resolution to this unfortunate standoff," the Kiribati President's Office said on Monday.

As of 20 January, there have been 363 reported cases of whooping cough, with confirmed 24 cases.

The PNG leader told delegates at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit that his country has "a lot of stakes in the conversation on conservation".

The man who led two attempts to unseat Prime Minister James Marape last year is now back in his Cabinet.

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape has asked President Donald Trump to reconsider pulling out of the Paris Agreement.

The University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor says artificial intelligence could democratise education in the region. Audio

Permanent chief Dr Jemesa Tudravu says financial resources for HIV programs have decreased from US$2.1m in 2011 to US$516,540 by 2016. Audio

Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry expressed doubt that the government will achieve anything of substance before the general election in December 2026.