U.S. Targets Iran’s Shadow Fleet with Massive Sanctions Package

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has intensified efforts against Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical exports, announcing sanctions against more than 50 individuals, entities, and vessels involved in...

Hirono urges Interior Secretary to restore funding for environmental research and conservation program

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono. Photo courtesy US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaiʻi), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to US Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging him to reconsider the Trump...

EPA involves students in water tests

An RMI EPA team visited Rongrong Island last week to check water quality and conduct water safety awareness with the students and staff at Marshalls Christian High School. “EPA continues rigorous water quality sampling and water quality...

Poison in a bottle: India's spurious drug problem runs deeper than cough syrups

Twenty children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district are dead, 85 per cent of them under the age of five. Their parents trusted a medicine that should have eased their coughs, not ended their lives. A batch of Coldrif cough syrup is at the...

Small island nations face $476 billion climate risk by 2050, urgent $12 billion annual investment needed, says new report

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) — among the least responsible for climate change — face losses of up to $476 billion by 2050 if adaptation measures are not accelerated, a new report by the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) has warned....

Growing Fiji–Australia business relationship

THE President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Dr. Hilda Heine, delivered a strong and emotional statement at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling on the UN to finally take responsibility for decisions that harmed...

FACT-CHECK: Republicans Falsely Tie Shutdown To Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care

Credit: Screengrab / PolitiFact via KFF Health News “Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.” Vice President JD Vance in a...

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow 

By Ayurella Horn-Muller. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The rats scurried into the shed. Flinching at the sound of a horde of tiny claws scratching at the ground, Migdalia Mass Llorens...

Senator Schatz: U.S needs to ‘step up’ engagement in the Pacific Islands

In an online news conference with Pacific Islands journalists Wednesday, U.S Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i) said the United States needs to “step up” engagement in the region in order to help tackle the “catastrophic” effects of climate change,...

Are cracks appearing in the EU consensus on IMO’s NZF?

The EU presents a united face at the IMO, but the façade may be dropping as the reality of the Net Zero Framework draws closer and the fear mounts for some countries that they may not be able to exploit energy reserves. EU member states have been...

Military looks to Papua New Guinea for alternative to Red Hill facility

The U.S. military is continuing to pursue its post-Red Hill refueling strategy in the Pacific with a new facility under construction in Papua New Guinea. Adm. Samuel Paparo, the commander of the Hawaii-­based U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, visited the...

Passport people get new home

GIFF JOHNSON Marshall Islands Immigration and the RMI Passport Office have a new home that was officially opened Monday this week. And, specifically speaking, the RMI Passport Office actually has two new offices, the second of which will be opened...

Everton stadium deal paying off for Hill Dickinson

HILL Dickinson must be the best-known law firm in Britain right now, after agreeing to sponsor Premier League football team Everton’s new stadium a few months back. The cost of the deal remains undisclosed but is widely believed to run to millions...

 Pacific Islands Forum’s exclusion of great powers and its consequences

Pacific island leaders gather in Honiara, Solomon Islands for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leadership Meeting in September. Photo courtesy of the FSM government These Islands By Robert Underwood In the prelude to the September 2025 Pacific...

Nuclear victims hold global forum in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA – Victims of atomic bombings and nuclear tests gathered in Hiroshima to discuss eliminating nuclear damage, 80 years after the atomic bombings of the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The global forum, hosted by two...

WHP steps up fight against tobacco use in Western Pacific

By Pacific Island Times News Staff Governments in the Western Pacific have made progress in advancing their tobacco control laws and expanding smoke-free environments. The sale of e-cigarettes, for example, is banned in 10 countries in the region,...

BAR Technologies and Union Maritime secure double approval for dual-fuel LNG tanker duo fitted with WAPS

UK-based shipping company Union Maritime (UML) and compatriot design and engineering firm BAR Technologies have received a green light from the Marshall Islands flag for the former company’s dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker duo fitted...

Pacific Growth to Accelerate in 2025 on Resource Strength — ADB

Economic growth in the Pacific is expected to pick up next year, buoyed by strong resource output in Papua New Guinea (PNG), according to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) September 2025, released on 6 October by the Asian Development Bank...

TradeSta Becomes the First Perpetuals Exchange to Launch Equities on Avalanche

[PRESS RELEASE – Ajeltake, Marshall Islands, 25th September 2025] TradeSta, the decentralized perpetuals exchange built on Avalanche, today announced the launch of equities trading on-chain, becoming the first perpetuals platform to bring global...

Union Maritime’s new LNG dual-fueled tankers with WindWings secure SOLAS approval

Written by Nick Blenkey Union Maritime's newbuild tankers achieve regulatory milestone BAR Technologies and Union Maritime report that their proposals covering bridge visibility, navigational lights and radar line of sight for Union Maritime’s two...