RI gets US$33.3 million for coral reef management

""The commitment of funding support from several donor countries and institutions was agreed on at a senior official-level meeting of CTI in Bali last week," he said.The CTI groups Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands and Timor Leste...

PM lashes out at Air NZ criticism

"....The scrap relates to a row that began earlier this month over the airline - which is two-thirds owned by taxpayers - ferrying Australian troops bound for Iraq to Kuwait. The New Zealand government, which does not support the war, expressed disapproval over the...

Solomon Islands Chopping Down Its Own Future

The Solomon Islands seems to be fast-tracking its own economic ruin by increasing its logging rates. Unless the nation finds a better way to manage its remaining timber resources, or, perhaps more judiciously, looks to alternative industries, its whole way of life could...

Quake lifts Solomons island metres from the sea

The force of last week's Solomons earthquake has lifted an island in the South Pacific archipelago and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres, exposing surrounding reefs. The remote island of Ranongga in the western Solomon Islands used to have submerged coral reefs that...