Samoa’s election at the end of August may be seen as an opportunity for foreign partners to deepen engagement and offer new avenues of support. With robust democratic institutions and strong cultural ties to its …
The first stop of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip was Solomon Islands, where journalists have been complaining about their treatment since the government swapped diplomatic allegiance to Beijing from Taipei in 2019. …
Planet A A recent study on climate-change-related mortality, published in Nature Climate Change, found that an average of 37% of heat-related deaths in recent decades is directly attributable to human-induced climate change. The authors analysed …
In 2019, only a few months before Covid-19 hit, Samoa suffered a disastrous measles epidemic. The lessons from that epidemic have shaped Samoa’s hardline response to Covid-19 and offer important insights about maintaining public trust …
The beat AFP and Europol trap cyber rats Law enforcement agencies from Europe and Australia have dismantled an international cybercrime operation involving the use of malware known as ‘Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan’, or IM-RAT. …




