“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

A powerful earthquake was reported in the Pacific Ocean early Monday morning local time, with officials issuing tsunami ...

With curators from mainland Japan, Taiwan and Okinawa, the festival was anchored by works from those three regions, with the ...

A tiny Australian island has been hit with huge tariffs by the Trump administration despite having no trading relationship with the US in a ...

A HUGE 7.1-magnitude earthquake has hit near Tonga and Niue in the Pacific Ocean and prompted a tsunami warning. The US ...

Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...

American Samoa has the highest obesity rate globally at 70%, followed by Nauru at 69%. India ranks 180th with an obesity rate ...

U.S. President Donald Trump 's wide-ranging "reciprocal" tariffs have hit a remote, disputed island hosting a key U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, although the tax appears to be a symbolic move ...

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

Aitutaki is wonderfully unspoiled compared to certain other island hotspots, and this adults-only resort takes the fantasy a ...

One of the smallest and least-visited nations in the world is hidden in the South Pacific - imagine no crowds but plenty of ...

The tiny Australian external territory of Norfolk Island has been hit with a 29 per cent tariff in Donald Trump's "liberation ...