Solomon Islands News

Travelling on the USS Pearl Harbor, an amphibious dock-landing ship, Project HOPE volunteers will visit Samoa, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Solomon Islands.

USP students have revived a cross culture event which acknowledges and appreciates the many cultures that co-exist at its campuses.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Hon. Gordon Darcy Lilo will give a key note address at the 6th Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Global Conference, in Sydney, Australia this week.

Although France had undertaken to furnish information on French Polynesia in 1946, along with New Caledonia, this transmittal of information stopped the following year, as stated by the delegate of the Solomon Islands.

Australia's aid and defence spending in the Pacific has escaped the sweeping cuts to Government programmes announced in the latest Budget.

Honiara's rapid urban growth and increased urban waste have become the focus of municipal efforts to stem the spread of dengue fever.

Sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan handle boxes of relief supplies bound for the Carnival cruise ship C/V Splendor, which went adrift after an engine room fire in November 2010.

Business groups have largely reacted negatively to Australia's budget today and questioned whether its assumptions about economic growth prospects were too optimistic.

A brand new guest house for overseas medical and nursing students in Honiara, Solomon Islands, was officially opened this morning thanks to New Zealand building companies.

Honiara, May 13, 2013 Local tuna boat operators targeting albacore in the South Pacific are under threat of being pushed out of operation altogether due to the steady growth in numbers of subsidized foreign fishing vessels.

For years, female survivors of domestic violence in the Solomon Islands have been afraid of saying anything in public, unable to find a way to stand up to the oppressive abuse they experience on a regular basis at home.

The Solomon Islands economy grew by 4.8 per cent in 2012, but the growth was significantly lower than the 10.6 per cent growth of the economy in 201, said Central Bank Governor Denton Rarawa when he launched the bank's 2012 annual report today.

GEOGRAPHICALLY, THE ISLAND OF SHORTLAND, Faul Island and the mainland of Choiseul Province of Solomon Islands are very close to the North Solomons mainland of Bougainville, whereas the islands of Papua New Guinea are so far away.

RUBY Coffin and Mulan Kamoe took out the girl's under-15 doubles title during the International Tennis Federation West Pacific Qualifying Championship in Lautoka.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet said Thursday it will send an amphibious dock landing ship to six Pacific island nations over the next several months to provide humanitarian assistance and help people better prepare for disasters.

This screengrab shows the annular solar eclipse of May 9, 2013, close to the "ring of fire," visible in Australia.

This is the first of a 'Bougainville Manifesto' series of writings that I am creating at my own initiative to explore the Bougainville conflict from the pre-colonial era; through colonialism and into the boots of Papua New Guinea.

West Papuan journalist and peace negotiator Octovianus Mote and Pax Christi's Kevin McBride at AUT's WPFD address.

It's that time again where certain people on Earth are lucky enough to see an annular eclipse, or "ring of fire." People on the ground in much of Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands will be able to gaze toward the sky Thursday evening and witness the eclipse.

Stargazers will be in for a visual treat when the annular solar eclipse transforms the sun into a 'ring of fire' on 9-10 May.