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Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
Odisha Diary
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA, June 17, 2025 — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released today in Honiara, projects...
World Bank slashes Pacific growth forecast
FBC News
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The World Bank is projecting regional growth to fall to 2.6 percent this year, down from 5.5 percent in 2023. In a report of an economic update, it says that economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth,...
As economic growth slows, Pacific Islands should boost women in jobs, says World Bank
WKZO - Michigan
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June 17, 2025
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Less than half of working age women are employed across the Pacific Islands due to outdated laws and other barriers, the World Bank said in a new report on Tuesday, and said closing the gender gap could boost...
Vanuatu leads charge for world’s largest Indigenous-led marine reserve at UN summit
Pacific Media Network
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Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging Pacific nations to support a vast cross-border marine sanctuary that could cover over six million square kilometres. He hopes the Melanesian Ocean Reserve will be a model for other...
Vanuatu Media Women Inspired By Fiji
Fiji Sun
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June 16, 2025
“Don’t be afraid to get out there, be respectful and aware of how people are being sensitive. And welcome critics, because that’s the only way you can learn and grow.” Media representative from Vanuatu Stephanie Tebi (left), and Sussie Kilman...
America’s Power Vacuum and China’s Offensive
The Diplomat
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June 17, 2025
The United States has traditionally provided significant assistance to Pacific island countries. Many of these countries and regions still use the U.S. dollar as their currency and, absent their own armed forces, rely on the U.S. military for...
Hidden in a Blue Mountains cave are artefacts that change the story of a nation
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 16, 2025
The terrain in the upper Blue Mountains is impassable in sections. It's where eucalypts climb high and scribbly gums, banksia and wattles thrive. Survival in this environment today would be tough — which makes a recent archaeological discovery all...
Live: Defence argues lack of motive weakens case against Erin Patterson
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 17, 2025
7m agoTue 17 Jun 2025 at 6:08am Need to be brought up to speed? We're getting very close to the end of this mammoth trial. The jury has heard a lot of evidence over the past eight weeks and ABC reporter Judd Boaz has been keeping track of it all...
Calls to close gender gap in Pacific Island employment
Otago Daily Times
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June 17, 2025
Less than half of working age women are employed across the Pacific Islands due to outdated laws and other barriers, the World Bank said in a new report on Tuesday, and said closing the gender gap could boost economic growth. The World Bank...
Vanuatu Anticipates New Era With Climate Change Reparations
Inter Press Service
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June 11, 2025
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Slowing growth faces Pacific, need for more inclusive workforce highlighted
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
HONIARA — Economic growth is slowing across the Pacific as countries face weak global growth, natural hazards and climate related shocks. The World Bank’s flagship Pacific Economic Update, released on Tuesday in Honiara, projects regional growth...
Diaspora Bank Threatens Lawsuit Over Ghana’s Crypto Warning
News Ghana
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June 13, 2025
The African Diaspora Central Bank has demanded the Bank of Ghana retract its 10 June warning about unauthorized digital currency operations, threatening legal action if the central bank refuses. The dispute centers on conflicting claims about the...
Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan Among 36 Nations in Line for US Travel Bans: Report
The Diplomat
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June 17, 2025
Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan are among the 36 additional countries whose citizens could be banned from entering the United States under a proposed expansion of the Trump administration’s travel ban. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a...
36 more countries may be added to Trump’s travel ban
West Hawaii Today - Hawaii
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June 17, 2025
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering expanding President Donald Trump’s new travel ban to as many as 36 additional countries, most of which are in Africa, according to a June 14 cable reviewed by The New York Times. This month,...
Vanuatu calls on world leaders to drop lip service and fulfill climate pledges
The Pacific Island Times
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June 9, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff Plans, promises and declarations without corresponding actions are pointless, according to Vanuatu’s climate official, who called on world leaders to make their climate pledges “a binding legal duty.” “Protecting...
Australia overtakes China in the Pacific as America vacates the lane
The Interpreter
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June 17, 2025
Something interesting is happening in how Australians think about their own country’s influence in the Pacific. According to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll, 39 per cent of Australians now see Australia as the most influential power in the Pacific...
Urgent action, solidarity needed in fight against malaria in Asia-Pacific
Xinhua News Agency
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BALI, Indonesia, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region called for urgent action and solidarity in the fight against malaria during the 9th Asia Pacific Leaders' Summit on Malaria Elimination, held in Bali, Indonesia,...
Ocean Summit, Chaired By Costa Rica And France, Ends With Agreements But Without Clear Funding
MENAFN
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June 17, 2025
(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) The UN ocean summit concludes Friday in Nice with progress toward better protecting the high seas, but without clear promises of funding. After bringing together some 60 world leaders, the meeting also closes with tougher...
Influencer not disqualified from Vanuatu 'golden passport' due to no conviction - OCCRP editor
RNZ
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June 11, 2025
A Pacific editor for the newsroom that found online influencer Andrew Tate has Vanuatu citizenship says Tate was not disqualified from getting the "golden passport" because he has not been convicted. Tate, a self-described misogynist, faces...
Vanuatu Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu On UN Ocean Conference
Scoop
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“It is time to move beyond voluntary pledges to making climate action a binding legal duty.” Statement from Ralph Regenvanu, Minister of Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology & Geo-Hazards, Energy, Environment and Disaster Management for the...