Solomon Islands News

The World Health Organization has declared a H1N1 influenza pandemic and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle against the virus.

Senior officials from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands concluded their 3rd Joint Border Committee Meeting in Buka, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea last week.

The Republic of China has releases the third payment of the 2009 Constituency and Rural Development Fund.

Government Disaster Authorities together with officials from the Ministry of Health and Solomon Islands Water Authority have held an inter-agency meeting last Friday to discuss responsive measures to counter the effects of the impending El Nino cycle on the country.

Red Cross Solomon Islands yesterday celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the International Red Cross Movement in Honiara.

Solomon Islander, Associate Professor Kabini Sanga of Victoria University of Wellington, thanked the Maori people of New Zealand for their hospitality and generosity to the thousands of Pacific Island students who have studied in New Zealand over the years.

A Solomon Islander is among six Oceania boxers to represent the Oceania Boxing Confederation in a training programme called 'Road to Milan' in Italy later this year.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 - As the world's poorer nations warn about the gravity of the global financial crisis on their fragile economies, the United Nations has exposed the hypocrisy of Western donors who cry poverty even while they raise trillions of dollars to rescue their beleaguered financial institutions.

AS they always did since 1944, the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces celebrated Infantry Day yesterday to commemorate the life of one of their war heroes, the late Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu.

Just after breakfast, Jenny Tamas' phone rings. But instead of a bell tone, there's a soothing passage of classical music.

President Barack Obama has named three more big fundraisers and contributors to his presidential campaign to ambassadorships in Sweden, Italy and Morocco.

Friday, 19 June 2009, 1:45 pm Press Release: Unknown The 1st Australia Solomon Islands Business Forum will be held in Brisbane on Friday 10 July 2009.

'Corporate doctor'.. Malcolm Turnbull has been taunted in Question Time. Video: Turnbull under fire The Government has used Question Time to target Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull over his wealth and business dealings.

Transparency Solomon Islands T-S-I will hold a lunchtime public forum tomorrow. A T-S-I statement says tomorrow's lunch time forum will again focus on issues of Party Instability and options for stability of the Government's proposed Political Party Integrity Bill.

The National development Planning Minister Steve Abana has highlighted the negative impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on small islands economies including Solomon Islands.

Medical authorities are awaiting test results from the W-H-O laboratory in Australia for final confirmation of what could be the country's first case of swine flu.

Parliament of the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Times reports the Pacific nation is to elect its next Governor-General today.

Monday, 15 June 2009, 11:29 am Press Release: Solomon Islands Government Fisheries officers from Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Indonesia and Philippines are in Honiara today to discuss options, positions and negotiation strategies for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries ...

Prime Minister Doctor Derek Sikua has wound up hearing by the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee on the review of RAMSI Prime Minister Doctor Derek Sikua has wound up hearing by the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee on the review of RAMSI.

Once reluctant to serve as a priest at his family temple, Kanko Sakitsu found his calling after learning of the many human remains left at the World War II battlefield of Guadalcanal, an island in the southern Pacific Ocean.