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Mysterious Chinese billion-dollar proposed deal in Nauru sparks concern in Canberra
Island Times
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August 22, 2025
By foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic, Iris Zhao and Hugo Hodge In short: The government of Nauru and a mysterious Chinese company have signed an investment deal they say is worth $1 billion. The agreement could be in breach of a landmark...
Pacific Tourism Organisation Completes Major Digital Upgrade for Five Pacific National Tourism Organisations
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 21, 2025
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with Trove Tourism Development Advisors as its Lead Digital Specialists, has successfully delivered a transformative digital upgrade for five National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) whom are...
Gonsalves says NDP apologists, fellow-travellers suffer from contagious denial
St. Vincent Times
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August 20, 2025
THE POLITICAL DISEASE OF DENIAL The apologists and fellow-travellers of the opposition NDP are in a state of denial; they should avoid each other because this contagious political disease among this small, and shrinking band of rank opportunists...
Australia probing Nauru business deal with Chinese firm
Taipei Times
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August 19, 2025
Australia yesterday was investigating whether Nauru breached a security treaty by inking a lucrative business deal with a Chinese company. Nauru last week announced it had signed a US$650 million economic development agreement with China Rural...
Billion-dollar Chinese investment proposed in Nauru sparks concern in Canberra
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 19, 2025
Australia has pressed Nauru for more detail about a claimed billion-dollar investment agreement that it has signed with a mysterious Chinese company, as federal government officials scramble to ensure the Pacific nation is not breaching a landmark...
Australia probes Nauru-China business deal
Hong Kong Free Press
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August 19, 2025
Australia was Tuesday investigating whether Pacific microstate Nauru breached a security treaty by inking a lucrative business deal with a Chinese company. Nauru. File photo: SlimMars/Pexels. Nauru last week announced it had signed a US$650...
From warzones to tropical islands: Meet the 19-year-old solo traveller who has visited 118 nations
Euronews
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August 16, 2025
Solo travel has been on the rise for the last few years, boosted by Gen Z and millennials, leading to younger and younger travellers breaking world records. Arjun Malaviya, a 19-year-old from Westlake Village, California, has already been to 118...
Nauru secures $651M socio-economic development project with Chinese company
Marianas Variety
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YAREN/BEIJING (Government of Nauru/Pacnews) — Nauru Minister for Foreign Affairs Lionel Aingimea, and chairman of the China Rural Revitalization and Development Corporation, Zhang Yong signed on Aug. 5 a phase 1 investment project proposal valued...
Showcasing the ‘Hidden Treasures of the South Pacific’ to Australian travel trade
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 14, 2025
PTI Australia is supporting some of the Pacific’s most remote nations to strengthen their presence within the Australian travel trade through participation in the 2025 Treasures of the South Pacific (ToSP) Roadshow. By equipping travel agents with...
Travellers urged to be on alert for dengue, with soaring cases in the Pacific
New Zealand Doctor
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With dengue cases in the Pacific at their highest level in almost a decade, travellers are being urged to protect themselves from being bitten by mosquitoes that spread the sometimes deadly disease. There has also been a significant spike in...
‘What choice have I got?’: Lana built a life in Australia after years on Nauru – but now faces returning to the Iran she fled to keep it
The Guardian
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August 1, 2025
Lana and Scott* met in torrential rain: she was waiting for a bus, he offered her a lift. “We just kicked it off,” Scott remembers of the chance meeting on Nauru in 2015. He was a senior manager in construction, building Australia’s offshore...
Dengue Fever outbreak: More children die in Samoa, NZ govt updates advice
The New Zealand Herald
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August 1, 2025
“Before travelling in the Pacific, familiarise yourself with our advice for staying healthy on your trip.” a statement on MFAT’s SafeTravel website says. Important prevention measures include using insect repellent, wearing protective clothing and...
Canada has issued tsunami travel warnings for 38 countries after a massive Pacific earthquake
Narcity
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July 30, 2025
Canadians heading to dozens of destinations across the Pacific Rim are now being warned to take extra precautions — or reconsider their travel plans altogether — after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Russia on Tuesday night....
South Africa vs Australia streams: How to watch Rugby Championship 2025 live online from anywhere
TechRadar
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August 23, 2025
Are the Wallabies back? There's only one way to find out. Australia pulled off the most stunning result of the year last week, coming back from 22-0 down – they'd touched the ball twice when the Springboks scored their first try, and one of those...
How to watch Man City vs Tottenham today: live stream Premier League 2025/26 game, TV channels, team news
TechRadar
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August 23, 2025
The Man City vs Tottenham live stream is a heavyweight clash this early in the Premier League 2025/26 season, not least after the sides won their respective opening fixtures 4-0 and 3-0. City purred in winning by four goals at Wolves. An Erling...
Japan’s Ties to Pacific Island Nations Have New Significance 80 Years after World War II, as U.S.-China Rivalry in Region Grows
The Japan News
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August 22, 2025
The Yomiuri Shimbun Then Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, front center, welcomes Pacific leaders in Tokyo at the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM10) in 2024. By Yuko Mukai 8:00 JST, August 23, 2025 Eighty years ago, Japan lost its...
Imanuela Akatemia hosts historic education conference and student convention
Cook Island News
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August 22, 2025
Apii Imanuela Akatemia for the first time hosted two significant events – the Cook Islands Regional Educators Conference and a student convention – that brought “inspiration, training, and fellowship to both educators and students”. Both events...
Open letter to Israel foreign minister Sa’ar
Independent (Uganda)
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August 22, 2025
The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of its government COMMENT | JEFREY D. SACHS | Dear Mr. Minister, I write to you following your speech at the United Nations Security Council...
How to watch Bundesliga 2025/26: live stream guide, TV channels and free streams
TechRadar
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August 22, 2025
2025/26's Bundesliga live streams see Bayern Munich set out to defend their crown, as the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig try to stop them. Below we have all the information on how to watch Bundesliga 2025/26 season...
The world will end in 25 years, humanity will die and towns will become slaughterhouses: Oxford scientists' nightmare prediction, their proof it's inevitable and why billionaires in their bunkers should tremble
Daily Mail
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August 22, 2025
In a game of Russian roulette with a standard Colt revolver, the chances of instant death are one-in-six. Terrifyingly, that's the same as the odds of humanity being wiped out within 75 years – everyone dead in a cataclysmic and total breakdown of...