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AUS think tank warns of Chinese expansionism

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), backed by two Australian government officials, warned that China’s aggressive posturing in the SCS, East China Sea, and...

Sand, dust storm sweeps across southern Peru

LIMA – Strong winds from a South Pacific anticyclone triggered a massive sand and dust storm in southern Peru on Thursday, catching residents in...

China builds new presidential palace in Pacific’s Vanuatu

The government of cash-strapped Vanuatu will soon settle into a suite of new buildings funded by China, a move likely to reignite concerns about...

Australia fears China’s latest Pacific deal

SYDNEY—Australia has urged China to release the details of a new policing pact with Solomon Islands, saying Beijing’s latest push for influence threatens to...

30 dead amid violence in Papua New Guinea island

Thirty people have been killed and several more have been injured in a wave of intercommunal violence on Papua New Guinea’s remote Trobriand Islands,...

West wary of China South Pacific plan

Honiara, Solomon Islands—Western powers sounded the alarm Thursday over leaked plans to dramatically expand China’s security and economic reach in the South Pacific, in...

China, Solomon Islands agree to controversial security pact

Honiara—The Solomon Islands on Thursday said it had inked a wide-ranging security pact with Beijing, an agreement Western allies fear will pave the way...

Peru declares ‘environmental emergency’ on coastal area hit by oil spill

Peru on Saturday declared an "environmental emergency" along a stretch of coast hit by an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic...

New Zealand shocked as policeman shot dead in rare attack

An unarmed New Zealand policeman was shot and killed on an Auckland street Friday, becoming the first officer to die on duty for more...

Fierce but friendly rivalry

The Philippine downstream oil industry has grown significantly 18 years after the passage of the landmark Oil Deregulation Law of 1998. Today, the fierce but...
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