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Vanuatu, a South Pacific ocean nation with 83 islands, UNICEF, the Australian company Swoop Aero and the German firm Wingcopter are collaborating on a ...

Vanuatu says it's keen to learn from Timor Leste about maritime boundaries.

The motion of no confidence in Vanuatu's prime minister Charlot Salwai has been defeated.

Schools and houses on Vanuatu's southernmost island of Aneityum were damaged when a tsunami hit after yesterday's 7.5 earthquake off New Caledonia.

Vanuatu is currently trialling drones as a way to transport childhood vaccines into remote areas early next year.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says the threat of tsunami waves has passed after a strong, shallow earthquake hit off the coast of New Caledonia.

5 December 2018, Port Vila: In Vanuatu today, the Minister of Health, Norris Jack Kalmet, officially opened the drone trials for vaccine delivery to children living ...

Vanuatu has launched a three day trial for the delivery of vaccines to remote areas by drones.

Chinese officials announced they had signed new agreements with several Pacific Island nations at the APEC summit, but they refused to answer even basic ...

Vanuatu says it is desperate for financial assistance to deal with extreme weather and global warming.

Officials in the South Pacific island of Vanuatu said they are considering suing fossil fuel companies and nations that support the industry for their role in climate ...

A Vanuatu MP is accusing the opposition group of forging his signature on multiple documents which claim his support for their motion of no confidence against ...

Local chiefs have criticised the Vanuatu's government decision to send an assessment team to Ambae to determine if it's safe for people to return there after ...

OPINION: Vanuatu's Foreign Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, announced last week that the island nation's government is considering legal action against the ...

Move over Fiji, Aussies are looking to this South Pacific destination for it's crystal clear waters and five-star hospitality.

Vanuatu's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the opposition after the Speaker initially declared their motion of no confidence was not in order.

ONIONS could be the ticket to a better life for 105 people from Vanuatu, whose seasonal work in the Southern Downs will help many rise out of poverty and ...

The Acting Mayor of Vanuatu's Port Vila Eric Festa has donated 50 bags of rice to feed an increasing number of people in the capital evacuated from Ambae.

A senior government minister in Vanuatu says the grounds for a defeated motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Charlot Salwai were too light and the ...

The Supreme Court in Vanuatu is reviewing the parliamentary Speaker's dismissal of a no confidence motion in the Prime Minister.

The leader of the opposition in Vanuatu has this morning filed a motion of no confidence in the prime minister Charlot Salwai.

By Richard M. Nanua and Royson Willie in Port Vila. Vanuatu's Magistrates Court has remanded a Bangladeshi couple over what is alleged to be the biggest ...

Vanuatu's opposition leader has again played down suggestions he may soon lodge a motion of no-confidence in the prime minister Charlot Salwai. Vanuatu ...

Australia and Vanuatu have announced a new initiative to build up the Melanesian country's security capability.

The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu attaches importance to its friendship and cooperation with Vi?t Nam. That was the message from its Prime Minister ...

Vanuatu and Kiribati have joined the world policing body INTERPOL.

Ilimo Dairy, PNG's local dairy producer, welcomed Vanuatu's Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, as well as other members of his Vanuatu delegation, ...

The party of two ministers ousted from Vanuatu's government last week have defected to the opposition.

Tonga and Vanuatu have signed up to China's Belt and Road initiative.

The charity Oxfam says it's concerned about people displaced from Vanuatu's Ambae, who are living in temporary structures on neighbouring islands during the ...

A former minister ousted from Vanuatu's government is refusing to rule out voting with the opposition should a motion against the government arise. Vanuatu ...

The Speaker of Parliament in Vanuatu has dismissed a motion of no confidence against prime minister Charlot Salwai.

Oxfam in Vanuatu has launched a programme to provide displaced Ambaeans with cash to buy food, hygiene supplies and pay school fees for the next three ...

An Australian company is one of two companies that will partake in a world first, trialing drone delivery of life-saving vaccines to children in remote island ...

Three new ministers have been appointed in Vanuatu, as Prime Minister Charlot Salwai works to shore up support amid speculation of a possible motion of no ...

A former minister ousted from Vanuatu's government is refusing to rule out voting with the opposition should a motion against it arise. Matai Seremiah and ...

During the night of Friday on 22nd September 2017, the province of Penama in Vanuatu, was elevated to an Alert Level 4 'Moderate eruption state' due to ...

Fit woman from Pentecost Island at risk of losing leg and eyesight due to Type 1 diabetes.

With most of its 82 islands sitting just less than one metre above sea level, the low-lying Pacific nation of Vanuatu faces high risk of becoming inundated by the ...

PORT VILA, 30 NOVEMBER 2018 (VANUATU DAILY POST) – Vanuatu Parliament will debate the motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Charlot ...

The Vanuatu government will send a team of assessors to Ambae before permitting evacuees to return to the island.

English Situation Report on Vanuatu about Volcano; published on 14 Nov 2018 by Govt. Vanuatu.

The Republic Of Vanuatu has announced it will be legalizing medical marijuana. Vanuatu is a neighbour of Australia and will begin licensing medical marijuana ...

The Vanuatu opposition leader Ishmael Kalsakau has not ruled out filing a motion of no confidence against the government when parliament sits next Friday.

Walking time: Midwife Roslinda Narwayen, from the Vaimali Health Centre, Epi Island, on a three-hour coastal trek to deliver vaccines to a village health clinic.

“Land is the foundation of everything that's connected to food, traditional knowledge, and custom beliefs. It's the power base of society.” Aminio David Seresere.

Seventh-day Adventist Church members in Port Vila, Vanuatu are celebrating after the opening of a new multipurpose building. South Pacific Division president.

The United Nations Children's Fund in Vanuatu says it is working with the government to increase the number of midwives being trained in the country.

November 2018, Barcelona, Spain — The Lord Mayor of the capital of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Albert Sandy Daniel, and the Head of UN-Habitat's Urban Basic ...

A Vanuatu high chief, arrested last year for his unconventional appearance in court, was back in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

This Christmas, the Herald and The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ are working together to bring the Gift of Sight to the Pacific, where four out of five people who ...

Pacific Island countries will increasingly promote kava as a healthy beverage like tea. Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa are working to adhere to an international ...

Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office says it is unclear whether Ambae evacuees will be permitted to return to the island this month as planned.

Greenhouse gasses are at levels not seen in the past five million years and time is running out to save Earth from the worst effects of climate change, a United ...

A school and homes on Vanuatu's southernmost island of Aneityum are reported to have been damaged after a tsunami hit following a 7.5 earthquake ...

DENVER, Nov. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Phoenix Life Sciences International Limited (OTCMarkets: PLSI) (“Phoenix Life”), an international adaptive ...

A crew member from Vanuatu was sentenced to five years and eight months in jail on Tuesday after he was found guilty two months ago of raping a co-worker d.

Fiji Junior Tribe has booked their spot in the final of the AFL Oceania U15 cup competition after defeating favourites Nauru Stars 6-5-41 at Albert Park yesterday.

English Appeal on Vanuatu about Agriculture, Disaster Management, Children, IDPs, Tropical Cyclone, Volcano and more; published on 16 Oct 2018 by Govt.

Authorities have warned of a tsunami threat to nearby islands.

Cyclones and volcanic eruptions have hurt Vanuatu but it remains an undervalued jewel of the Pacific.

Air Vanuatu's wide-reaching call 'to explore Vanuatu' convinced Business to Business editor HELEN PERRY that the time was right to fulfil a long time ambition ...

From China's ban on foreign waste imports to Vanuatu's plan to take fossil fuel firms to court, we rounded up a list of countries that toughened national and...

The population of an entire island in Vanuatu is set to be evacuated for the second time in less than a year as increasing ash clouds from an erupting volcano ...

In Vanuatu the president of the Vaturisu Council of Chiefs on Efate, Chief Henry Manlaewia, has been re-elected unopposed.

In Vanuatu the Supreme Court has ordered the Government to pay a member of parliament, Don Ken, a sum of $US106,000 for repairs he undertook to his state ...

Handing over ceremony of power equipment tools to Vanuatu Government. The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ...

In Vanuatu the suspect in the killing of a 15-year-old secondary school student is in custody in Port Vila after being arrested in South East Malekua and flown to ...

Drones will take delicate drugs to dozens of remote villages in test that could be replicated around the world.

As the Vanuatu government prepares to move thousands of people from Ambae Island, many others on the island are expected to go, or have already gone, ...

To calm security concerns about China's growing influence in the South Pacific, Vanuatu's foreign minister shared a contract his country signed with China in ...

A POWERFUL 6.1-magnitude earthquake has hit Vanuatu, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

On the Vanuatu island of Tanna a man had three of his fingers cut off after an angry mob stormed his village in a dispute over land.

Australia will negotiate a security treaty with Vanuatu, it announced Monday, just months after a report suggesting China wanted to build a military base on the ...

While much of the world counts the cost of social media's capacity to incite violence, spread hate speech and even decide elections, Pacific nations are working ...

A Chinese company offered each of the 52 members of Vanuatu's Parliament a free laptop.

English News and Press Release on Vanuatu about Disaster Management and IDPs; published on 28 Sep 2018 by IOM.

Unofficial results from Tanna show the Leaders Party of Vanuatu candidate to be leading the count in the by-election to fill the seat vacated by former Deputy ...

Shave almost $100 off your flight when you book a stay of four or more nights.

A high school in Vanuatu that closed its doors for a week because students seemed 'possessed' by spirits has reopened this week.

Vanuatu's Prime Minister is expected to ask Australia to help fund a multi-million-dollar internet cable project when he meets Malcolm Turnbull next week.

Nineteen locally-based have been selected in the Vanuatu squad to compete at next month's Rugby League Emerging Nations World Championship.

An Australian company is awarded the world's first-ever commercial contract to deliver life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children in remote areas by drone.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, ...

News. The state authorities of Malta will assist the government of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in forming blockchain regulations, the Vanuatu Daily Post ...

A Vanuatu judge says as a result of recent court rulings, public office holders are learning that they must be accountable.

For more than a decade, this tiny island nation has leveraged regional rivalries to drive infrastructure development.

A food centre in Port Vila has run out of supplies and the local Disaster Committee is appealing for more donations to help meet the needs of Ambaeans in the ...

Port Vila: Vanuatu's Prime Minister has vowed to “fiercely oppose" any push to build a foreign military base on the Pacific island nation, while also defending his ...

You probably haven't heard of Vanuatu, the South Pacific Ocean nation, but if you want unspoiled beauty, it's the place to go.

A transport aircraft of Japan's Air Self-Defence Forces (ASDF) touched down in the Marshall Islands en route to joint exercises in the US on Friday, delivering ...

There is a call for water to be transported to North Pentecost which has been affected by several days of ash fall from the erupting volcano on Ambae. A Vanuatu ...

"We know it is going on but we don't have the power to do anything about it."

Cannabis may offer a potentially safer—and less expensive—way to treat and manage diabetes. The anecdotal success of cannabis as a treatment for diabetes ...

The Vanuatu foreign minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is intending to submit a resolution calling for West Papua to be inscribed on the United Nations de-colonisation ...

Prince Charles has been made an honorary high chief in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. The Prince of Wales said his new title was a "very great honour".

Description of the disaster. On 23 September 2017, the Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-hazards Department (VMGD) increased the alert level for Monaro Volcano ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck just north of Ambrym Island in the Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu on Wednesday, the U.S. ...

A Beijing-funded wharf in Vanuatu that is struggling to make money is big enough to allow powerful warships to dock alongside it, heightening fears the port ...