Eight people kidnapped in remote Papua New Guinea
In Papua New Guinea a male health worker, an elementary school teacher and their wives along with a number of school students were taken by the gang at the village of Adumari.
The Solomon Islands government has announced the establishment of a commission of inquiry to investigate millions of dollars in missing mine payments.
Oxford University has announced it will be honouring one of its alumni, the late Mākereti Papakura, with a posthumous degree.
Samoa NRL have invited an indigenous women's rugby league team from Australia to visit the Pacific nation to play rugby league and exchange cultural ties.
And, this week Rotumans in Rotuma and across the Pacific region mark the month the island was handed over to Fiji from Britain in 1881.
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