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Pacific microstate sells passports to fund climate action
Bangkok Post
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August 7, 2025
Nauru offering ‘climate resilience citizenship’ for $105,000 PUBLISHED : 7 Aug 2025 at 10:45 SYDNEY - A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying,...
Pacific Microstate Sells First Passports To Fund Climate Action
International Business Times
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August 7, 2025
A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of the world's smallest nations, has a novel plan...
Nauru grants first citizenship through investment scheme
RNZ
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August 5, 2025
The Nauru citizenship by investment scheme allows investors to secure Nauru citizenship for US$105,000 within four months of their application. Photo: RNZ Pacific/123RF Nauru has announced its first "climate citizens" - people taking up...
GGCC2025 To Unite East And West At Landmark Investment Migration Summit In Singapore
MENAFN
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August 8, 2025
(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Hong Kong, China--(Newsfile Corp. - August 7, 2025) - Globevisa, the world's largest investment migration consultancy, will host the Globevisa Global Citizen Conference (GGCC2025) from October 22 to 24, 2025, at the...
Australia and New Zealand’s Pacific approach diverges
The Interpreter
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August 8, 2025
The non-alignment style of diplomacy adopted by the Pacific Islands has proven to be a pragmatic approach to securing their interests. Dealing with all partners – be it China or the United States – has delivered tangible benefits. However, the...
Australia close to signing 'ambitious' pact with Vanuatu worth $500m
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 11, 2025
Australia and Vanuatu are close to signing an "ambitious" new strategic pact that will see the federal government plough about half a billion dollars into the Pacific island country over the next decade. Vanuatu's Council of Ministers is widely...
Full List Of Countries Hit By US President’s New Trade War Levies
Daily Independent
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August 7, 2025
1 US president Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs for dozens of countries have come into force as he continues to escalate his global trade war. Last week Trump announced higher import duty rates of between 10 per cent and 41 percent for multiple...
Bullseye return for Cup
The Guardian (Australia)
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August 7, 2025
DARTS teams from around the continent converged on Swan Hill RSL for the return of the Swan Hill Cup last weekend. Nine women’s teams and 11 men’s teams from Australia and the islands, including Nauru, competed. Yodas won the women’s competition...
Fisheries conservation and sustainability focus of seminar in Marshall Islands
RNZ
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August 6, 2025
Speaking to the opening of a National Ocean Symposium Tuesday, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine called for communities throughout the Marshall Islands to get active in protecting their ocean resources for current and future generations....
Editorial | CARICOM and the deep seabed
The Gleaner
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August 6, 2025
At last month’s 30th Session of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica reaffirmed its support for a strong, rules-based regime for the mining of metals from the deep ocean floor. “The determination of member...
German family Nauru's first ‘climate citizens’ under investment program
The Pacific Island Times
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August 5, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff Nauru has welcomed a German family of four who became the first new citizens under the island nation’s Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program. The program, announced at COP29 late last year, provides...
UN urges Australian government to halt deportation of man to Nauru
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 5, 2025
The United Nations has urged Australia to halt plans to deport a man to Nauru while it investigates the human rights implications of his case. Australia is seeking to deport three people released under the NZYQ decision to the tiny Pacific nation...
Etna awakens
Taipei Times
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August 11, 2025
2025-08-08 Nauru has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island in the Pacific Ocean. Nauru, one of the world’s smallest nations, has a novel plan to...
What will happen when the small Pacific states disappear under the sea?
The Business Times Singapore
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August 5, 2025
WHAT happens when climate change meets the 21st-century version of the Great Game? The destiny of the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu may hold some clues. This country has a population of just 10,643 at last count and is located midway between...
The Amazon Challenge: Security and Cooperation Against Transnational Crime
Dialogo Americas
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August 5, 2025
The Amazon basin, where Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador converge, faces a severe security crisis. Transnational organized crime operates in 54 of the 75 border towns in this region, representing an alarming 72 percent of the areas bordering...
Albanese government in the dark over US threat to deport Iranian to Australia
WAtoday
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August 6, 2025
Asked about any agreement with the US to accept deportees, the spokesperson said: “There have been no new agreements made with the Trump administration on immigration.” An old agreement struck in 2016 between former leaders Malcolm Turnbull and...
Arrest warrant for Fiji DPP
Islands Business
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August 5, 2025
A SAMOAN family has lost a second child to dengue fever in a matter of days. The two-year-old boy died just days after his nine-year-old brother, taking the dengue death toll to five. Samoa has been battling a rising occurrence of the disease...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 25 – July 31, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 2, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
President Trump announced a 19% Export tariff on Pakistan
Dispatch News Desk Pakistan
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August 1, 2025
Monitoring Desk: US President Trump announced a 19% tariff on Pakistani exports. The latest country-wise tariff is hereunder: Countries and Territories Reciprocal Tariff, Adjusted Afghanistan 15% Algeria 30% Angola 15% Bangladesh 20% Bolivia 15%...
As the Pacific grapples with dengue fever, here's what you need to know
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 4, 2025
Each morning in Samoa, fumigation teams gear up to spray schools and buildings, battling tirelessly against a dengue outbreak. Since the outbreak was declared on April 17, Samoa's Ministry of Health says more than 5,600 clinically diagnosed cases...