9 April 2024. A former ANZ Samoa bank manager has been sentenced by the Supreme Court to more than six years in jail, for theft of what the judge called 'a record amount before the courts'.

24 March 2024. The former deputy prime minister of the Cook Islands and two others in his administration have been sent to prison for a range of fraud charges.

22 March 2024. The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, will embark on official visits to Samoa and the Kingdom of Tonga from 25 March 2024.

19 March 2024. Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has reportedly revealed he stopped an official travel for his Women's Minister Lynda Tabuya due to undisclosed "pending issues", just days after she told Parliament she was not attending a high-level UN meeting in New York because she was prioritising the parliamentary session.

13 March 2024. All Samoan citizens, including those who reside overseas, can be prosecuted once they enter the country if they do not undergo a compulsory election registration.

5 March 2024. The MP representing Goroka in the Papua New Guinea national parliament, Aiye Tambua, has been charged with 26 sexual offences.

3 March 2024. A fractious meeting of world trade ministers in Abu Dhabi ended with little to show for the time and money spent early Saturday morning New Zealand time.

1 March 2023. As the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) nears its conclusion, Pacific Island countries have been calling on the biggest subsidisers to halt subsidies to overcapacity and overfishing, and to pledge to lower bad subsidies in future, this week.