Asian Development Bank Offers Help to Pacific Countries Hit by Iran War

Asian Development Bank President Masato Kanda, speaking at a press conference in February 2024 in his then capacity as ...
Asian Development Bank

Meeting of Governors of Pacific Developing Member Countries with ADB Management at the 59th Annual Meeting – Masato Kanda

Opening remarks by Masato Kanda, President, Asian Development Bank, at the Meeting of Governors of Pacific Developing Member Countries with ADB Management, 3 May 2026, Samarkand, Uzbekistan ...
UNESCO

Building Resilient Futures: Pacific Countries Advance Climate-Smart and Life Skills Education

The Pacific stands on the frontlines of climate change, and our young people require not only academic knowledge, but also ...
Post Courier

ADB ready to mobilise support for Pacific countries impacted by the Middle East crisis

The impact of the conflict in the Middle East is expected to dominate discussions this week at the Asian Development Bank’s ...
The Diplomat

Navigating Taiwan’s Pacific Identity: Challenges for Lai Ching-te’s Hawaiian Shirt Diplomacy

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s recent Pacific tour to Hawai‘i, Guam, and Taiwan’s remaining Asian diplomatic partners – the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Palau – was more than a calculated diplomatic ...
Washington Times

China’s unwarranted exclusion of the U.S. and Taiwan from Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, under mounting pressure from Beijing, recently reaffirmed Taiwan’s exclusion from the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. The decision marks ...
Reuters

Public debt expected to fall in most Pacific countries -World Bank

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Public debt in most Pacific countries is expected to fall in the next 12 months as countries move towards the gradual unwinding of COVID-19 stimulus and the fiscal situation ...
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Pacific nations Tonga, Vanuatu and Tuvalu face sweeping US travel bans — and it's not clear why

Utah-based immigration lawyer Laura Lui doesn't see how Tonga — with a population of 100,000 — could be a threat to the United States. So she was baffled to see her home country on a list of 36 ...