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[Source: Pitas Picture/Facebook] Ba Methodist High School is bracing for a tough challenge in today’s Pacific Schools Rugby League Championship as it prepares to take on Tonga Junior Boys. The match kicks off at 2pm, with the hosts calling on fans to come out and support the team. Team manager Tawake Waqanovo says the players have trained hard in recent weeks and are expecting a strong contest against the visitors. The championship will mark Ba Methodist’s first experience in regional competition.Article continues after advertisement “The boys know that this is no ordinary competition, and that we are playing against the…
[Source:Fiji Football Association/Facebook] The national men’s football side will play Vanuatu in Port Vila today in their first of two FIFA international friendlies. Coach Stephane Auvray wasted no time and got down to business, and they completed their final training session yesterday ahead of this afternoon’s match. Auvray says the Vanuatu matches will provide an ideal platform to assess players under international conditions and determine who possesses the qualities required for the next phase of Fiji football. He believes the squad has trained well so far; however, by next year, the level of performance and expectations at training will be…
About 100 Solomon Islands nurses are already contributing to health services in Vanuatu. Photo: Vanuatu Vanuatu is to recruit another 100 nurses from Solomon Islands as it tries to address a major shortage of health workers. The Vanuatu Daily Post reports the Acting Director General of Health, Santus Wari, saying the recruitment needs funding to be confirmed before it can go ahead. Solomon Islands has been assisting Vanuatu’s health workforce in recent years, with its nurses filling vacancies and helping with training. It is part of a broader cooperation agreement between the two Melanesian countries. Dr Wari said about 100…
[Source:World Rugby] Fiji Airways Men’s 7s recorded its second pool win at the HSBC SVNS World Championship in Bordeaux, France. The Osea Kolinisau-coached side defeated Great Britain 26-12 with a solid performance in the second half. Great Britain earlier beat South Africa 19-14. It was 14-7 at halftime with Filipe Sauturaga and Apete Narogo scoring tries. Narogo, scored a second-half double in their 31-12 over Kenya. George Bose, who could have got on the scoresheet in the first spell, didn’t miss after the break when he ran 70 meters to score their third.Article continues after advertisement Narogo was later sent…
[Fiji Rugby/Facebook] A brave effort from the Fiji Airways Fijiana 7s was not enough after going down to Australia 19-7 in their second HSBC SVNS World Championship match in Bordeaux, France, this morning. The Fijiana had the opportunities to cause a major upset but failed to execute their chances. The Aussies started with a bang and got three successive tries to lead 19-nil before Mariana Talatoka sprinted away to score a converted try on the stroke of halftime. Fijiana earlier beat Japan 24-12 in its first game.Article continues after advertisement They play Brazil at 11:32 tonight in their final pool…
Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine Photo: Facebook / Pacific-Community-SPC Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine has told a high-level forum in Japan that island states need greater access to finance, and technology to better manage their oceans. Heine is among a handful of Pacific leaders – including Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo, and Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr – attending the two-day Island States Ocean Summit in Tokyo this week. “For my country, the ocean is not simply a resource. It is our identity, our livelihood, our history, and our future,” Heine told…
The Daily Guardian | June 05, 2026 Palau has continued to stand by Taiwan despite sustained pressure from China, which has allegedly used economic coercion, cyberattacks, and criminal influence operations in an effort to force Palau to sever diplomatic ties with Taipei, as reported by The Taipei Times. – According to The Taipei Times, Taiwan’s Presidential Office announced that Vice President Hsiao Bikhim would travel to Palau from Saturday through Wednesday next week at the invitation of President Surangel Whipps Jr Whipps has repeatedly stated that Beijing has urged Palau to abandon Taiwan.Speaking in an interview in April, he said…
Fiji Men’s Cricket assistant head coach Jone Seuvou is calling for more exposure and gametime for their national side’s before gearing up for major international tournaments. Unlike many other countries they usually compete against, he says Fiji usually has close to no friendly matches against neighbouring countries throughout the year. The only place national teams usually get gametime is from local tournaments, but this is not enough to give them tough competition to prepare for international events like Olympic Qualifers. “It’ll be no use if we just keep playing against local teams here because there’s no real competition here, and…
[Source: Reuters] Residents attacked an Ebola burial team in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province this week, forcing responders to abandon a coffin and raising fears of further transmission, the health ministry said. The assault took place on Monday in Katana, a town controlled by AFC/M23 rebels some 30 km (19 miles) north of the provincial capital Bukavu, according to the ministry and the head of a local hospital reached by Reuters. It targeted a “safe and dignified burial team” — specialised responders trained to handle highly infectious bodies under strict protocols to prevent contagion. The body was…
Fiji Airways Men’s 7s rep, Apete Narogo, scored a second-half double as they beat a spirited Kenya outfit 31-12 in their first HSBC SVNS World Championship pool match in Bordeaux, France. It took the national side just 15 seconds after kick-off to score through Terio Tamani. A mistake at the breakdown less than a minute later saw Kenya capitalized and score, and in the process Fiji was reduced to six men after Kavekini Tanivanuakula was sent off for diving on the tryscorer after the try was scored. Fiji then went 100 meters to score through George Bose after some brilliant…