Kiribati

Kiribati says the Green Climate Fund is providing $US28 million dollars for the country's biggest ever water project.

A programme which spreads infected mosquitoes to control dengue and other diseases is showing success in parts of Fiji, Kiribati and Vanuatu.

Tonga suffered a narrow 7-5 defeat against Trinidad and Tobago this morning in a high-octane women's futsal match at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

It's been a tough start for Pacific Islands athletes at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

Two missing Kiribati fishermen have been found by a New Zealand Defence Force aircraft.

The New Zealand Defence Force is helping search for two i-Kiribati fishermen who have been missing since Tuesday.

Kiribati and Nauru have urged the United Nations to recognise Taiwan saying the General Assembly's theme of global leadership and shared responsibilities calls for them to do so.

The Kiribati government has launched the country's first ever nation-wide disability action plan.

Climate activists in Kiribati say they want more support from Australia and New Zealand for the Pacific's new focus on climate change as a security threat.

Leaders at all levels of Kiribati society have been invited to publicly sign two pledges on climate action and fighting corruption at an event in Tarawa today.

Australia will help the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency with a new aerial surveillance programme to fight illegal fishing.

The Kiribati parliament has passed the first reading of its National Identity Registration Bill.

The Kiribati president Taneti Maamau says an investigation into the sinking of the Kiribati ferry, MV Butiraoi, is now complete, and commissioners are writing up their report.

Kiribati's main trust fund is close to reaching its goal of a billion Australian dollars.

Kirbati's infrastructure minister says a multi-million dollar project to tar seal roads and runways in the outer islands will start early next year.

The opposition in Kiribati says it's stunned the Speaker of Parliament has declared a motion of no confidence in him to be out of order. Audio

The Kiribati parliament has been told that people who died on MV Butiraoi in January have not been officially recorded as dead yet.

The Kiribati Institute of Technology has been accredited as a higher education provider by the Pacific Board for Educational Quality.