The China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) reported it has discovered an oilfield in the South China Sea with proven reserves exceeding 100 million tons, Chinese state media said on Monday. The ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s defense commitments to America’s Pacific territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands and that any attack on them ...

“Glaring violations” of constitutional safeguards occurred in the arrest and transfer of ex-Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court, the sister of President Ferdinand ...

Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a U.S. state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and ...

Parts of Suva harbor in Fiji resemble a ship graveyard with more than two dozen rusting and unseaworthy vessels abandoned due to financial problems by their foreign owners and enabled by policy ...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in custody after authorities in his home country arrested him on a warrant from the International Criminal Court and put him on a plane bound for the ...

More than 1,000 students in Indonesia’s restive Papua region took to the streets to protest a government-sponsored free-meal program, demanding that the government instead prioritize free education.

Papua New Guinea’s autonomous province of Bougainville lost an unlikely supporter in its bid for independence with the death last week of former prime minister Sir Julius Chan. One of the fathers of ...

The trial of impeached Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte cannot be rushed and will only begin in June, the Senate’s president said, while analysts described it as a political numbers game likely ...

Aid agencies operating in the Pacific are still scrambling to assess the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order freezing billions of dollars in foreign aid last week. The ...

Manila may resort to measures such as filing another international lawsuit like the 2016 case against Beijing to stop China’s continuing intimidating actions in the Philippines’ South China Sea waters ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...