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Security Supervisor Dies in Honiara Airport Incident

Security Supervisor Dies in Honiara Airport Incident

With deep regret, it has been confirmed that Mr. Ngabdullah, an Indonesian national and Security Supervisor with China Railway Construction Engineering Group Company Limited (CRCEG), passed away on 8 July 2025 at the National Referral Hospital....

UNICEF nutrition project to transform school meals and farming practices

UNICEF nutrition project to transform school meals and farming practices

BY BEN BILUA GIZO SCHOOLS in Western and Isabel provinces are set to benefit from a comprehensive initiative under the Nutrition Improvement through School Meal Project, aimed at strengthening school infrastructure, enhancing farming techniques...

Pacific Panel Tackles Security, Peace Amid Rising Challenges

Pacific Panel Tackles Security, Peace Amid Rising Challenges

At the Pacific Regional and National Security Conference, the Ocean of Peace panel focused on forging a secure, cohesive, and resilient Blue Pacific region. Leaders from diplomacy, academia, and governance discussed collective responses to...

Solomon Islands Students Graduate from Chinese Universities

Solomon Islands Students Graduate from Chinese Universities

Eight Solomon Islands students have recently graduated from various universities across China in June 2025. On Friday, 20th June, the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Barrett Salato, attended the graduation...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister fires chief of staff over Vietnam deal

Solomon Islands Prime Minister fires chief of staff over Vietnam deal

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has sacked his chief of staff, Mack Faddean Aoraunisaka, after an "unauthorised" deal with two Vietnamese firms last week. RNZ Pacific understands that Aoraunisaka "coerced" Commerce, Industry, Labour...

Solomon Islands PM fires chief of staff over unauthorised Vietnam deal

Solomon Islands PM fires chief of staff over unauthorised Vietnam deal

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has sacked his chief of staff Mack Faddean Aoraunisaka after an "unauthorised" deal with two Vietnamese firms last week. RNZ Pacific...

Health, Education, and Infrastructure Likely to Remain Focus of future scholarships

BY INDY MAEALASIA SCHOLARSHIP focus areas in health, education, and infrastructure are expected to remain unchanged in 2027, as skills gaps in these critical sectors are not likely to be filled quickly according SITESA (Solomon Islands Tertiary...

UNICEF visits key partners in Western province

UNICEF visits key partners in Western province

BY BEN BILUA GIZO A high-level delegation led by UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Solomon Islands and Japan’s Ambassador to Solomon Islands visited key partners of the Nutrition Improvement through School Meals Project upon their arrival in Gizo...

Japanese Ambassador lauds role of communities in School Meals Project

BY BEN BILUA GIZO Japanese Ambassador to Solomon Islands, His Excellency Keiichi Higuchi has expressed his heartfelt appreciation to schools and communities involved in nutrition improvement through the School Meals Project. Speaking to the media...

I thought I had a two-day hangover but it was actually MALARIA - I fought for my life in hospital after missing a common symptom

I thought I had a two-day hangover but it was actually MALARIA - I fought for my life in hospital after missing a common symptom

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By ALEX DOYLE Published: 06:55 EDT, 9 July 2025 | Updated: 07:00 EDT, 9 July 2025 A TV star has revealed how he fought for his life in hospital after confusing malaria for a two-day hangover....

Solomon Islands Media Professionals Gain Insightful Experience Of China’s Media, Culture, And Mesmeric Growth

Solomon Islands Media Professionals Gain Insightful Experience Of China’s Media, Culture, And Mesmeric Growth

Four media professionals from the Solomon Islands (SI) successfully completed a two-week seminar on Full-Media Communication for “Belt and Road Countries” in China, describing the training program as an eye-opener as cooperation between the two...

Health Ministry confirms diarrhoeal outbreak in Honiara and Guadalcanal

Health Ministry confirms diarrhoeal outbreak in Honiara and Guadalcanal

The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) continues to actively monitor the increasing trend in diarrhoeal disease through its weekly syndromic surveillance system, and has confirmed diarrhoeal outbreaks in Honiara and Guadalcanal...

The health crisis pushed by a drug crisis 

The health crisis pushed by a drug crisis 

Six months after Fiji declared an HIV outbreak, driven largely by a growing methamphetamine crisis, UNAIDS’ Pacific adviser says other countries around the region are at risk of following suit. “It does worry me. We have all the risk factors in...

Australia provides SBD60 million to support roads upgrade in Solomon Islands

Australia provides SBD60 million to support roads upgrade in Solomon Islands

Australia is listening and responding to Solomon Islands priorities – investing in road transport infrastructure to boost economic opportunities for local businesses and create jobs for the people of Solomon Islands. Together with the Minister for...

Police Investigate Alleged Murder in Green Valley, Honiara  

Police Investigate Alleged Murder in Green Valley, Honiara  

Naha police are investigating an alleged murder incident that took place at Green Valley in Honiara on 30 June 2025. Provincial Police Commander (PPC) Honiara City, Chief Superintendent Jimson Robo, said that the deceased was allegedly accused of...

USD3M ‘School Meal Nutrition Project’ 

USD3M ‘School Meal Nutrition Project’ 

A new multi-million-dollar school meal nutrition project has been officially launched to improve student health and strengthen local agriculture in Western Province and Isabel. Funded by the Government of Japan through UNICEF, the $3 million USD...

Court seeks update on MP Marau’s medical report

BY ROMINAH FAKA The Magistrate Court has directed defence for defendant MP William Bradford Marau to provide an updated medical report at the next court mention date. At hearing yesterday, defence informed court that it had no update on the...

Urgent call for multidisciplinary action to transform Solomon Islands’ domestic agrifood systems

Urgent call for multidisciplinary action to transform Solomon Islands’ domestic agrifood systems

A bold and urgent call for multidisciplinary collaboration has set the tone for decisive collective action to transform the Solomon Islands’ domestic agrifood system. Supervising Permanent Secretary (PS) and Deputy Secretary – Corporate (DSC),...

Acting PM receives Philippines Ambassador to Solomon Islands

Acting PM receives Philippines Ambassador to Solomon Islands

Acting Prime Minister Hon. Fredrick Kologeto today received a courtesy call from the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to Solomon Islands, His Excellency Edgar Thomas Auxilian. The non-resident ambassador is based in...

Pacific leaders unite behind call for regional security and shared peace

Pacific leaders unite behind call for regional security and shared peace

Senior Pacific political leaders have called for urgent regional unity, a stronger homegrown security framework, and peace rooted in Pacific values during the first session of the 2025 Pacific Regional and National Security Conference being held...

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