Vanuatu News

Vanuatu... search out the remote islands. A new small-ship cruise venture around some of the more remote of Vanuatu's 83 islands includes a close-up of the original "Bali-Hai" made famous in the stage and film musical South Pacific.

The Fiji Karate Federation has been given the green light to host the 2010 Open Karate Championship in Suva.

Railroads provided the steel thread that stitched a continent together during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Southern Railroad shops at Spencer, N.C., were among the sewing machines that kept the trains on track.

President Obama announced 7 new ambassadors today: James B. Foley, Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia Kenneth E. Gross, Jr.

Maine Native's 'The Last Cargo Cult' kicks off Penobscot Theatre Company's Northern Writes Play festival Mike Daisey, a Maine native who lives now in New York, is a playwright, author and monologuist who will perform his one-man show "The Last Cargo Cult" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at the Bangor Opera House to launch the Penobscot Theatre ...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 -- Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin today presented the instruments of appointment to four Malaysian envoys abroad.

Vanuatu has long been part of the vocabulary for me and my husband, Steve; an exotic-sounding shorthand for a more peaceful, less-frenetic way of life.

'Are you asking why the Vanuatu people are happy? Because we don't have strong affection for physical things, live a simple and humble life, and always respect each other.' The Republic of Vanuatu ranked at the top of a 2006 survey of 178 countries in the national happy planet index by the New Economics Foundation of Britain .

Pacific Ministers from Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Tonga with representatives from Niue, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia.

Vanuatu has long been part of the vocabulary for my husband Steve and I; an exotic-sounding shorthand for a more peaceful, less-frenetic way of life.

Former Oakland Athletics first baseman Troy Neel has pleaded guilty in Texas courtroom to fleeing to a tiny South Pacific island to avoid paying nearly $725,000 in owed child support.

You've probably heard the one about the guillotine not working during the French Revolution, so they decided they would have to cancel the executions.

Vanuatu - a string of more than 80 islands once known as the New Hebrides - achieved independence from France and Britain in 1980.

Some people apparently think so - and this story is almost too bizarre to be true.

Just a few hours flight away in the Pacific, Vanuatu is a hot-spot for Australian tourists.

An Evergreen couple has been ordered by the Colorado Division of Insurance to stop selling travel insurance because they are not licensed.

Update: 4:36PM TWELVE of the 22 Pacific Island countries invited to the Pacific Youth Festival have confirmed their attendance, says the Ministry of Youth.

Twelve countries have so far indicated their intention to attend the Pacific youth festival which will be held in Suva.

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Geography Area: Land --11,830 sq. km. archipelago of 83 islands. Comparative area --about the size of Connecticut.