Honolulu, Hawaii: Continental Airlines will offer new service between Honolulu and Nadi, Fiji, later this month

Suva, Fiji: US President, Barack Obama has congratulated the Fiji Government on its 39th anniversary independence, to be celebrated on 10 October.

Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaiian Airlines pilots have voted to authorise a strike, although no walkout is imminent

Houston, USA: Continental Airlines today announced new service from its Guam hub and Honolulu to Nadi, Fiji beginning 18 December 2009.

Washington, USA: The United States (U.S )  was not “ceding the Pacific” and did not see the rise of China as “a zero-sum game” which would inevitably leave America weakened

Washington, USA: The U.S. Navy said on Tuesday it decided not to send a warship on a planned humanitarian mission to the South Pacific after one crew member fell ill

Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand’s  Foreign Minister has met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington to lobby for United States' support

Washington, USA: The United States acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Glyn Davies says the relocation of 8,000 military personnel to Guam will proceed as planned.

Washington, USA: The U.S. Pacific territories will receive close to US$59 million from the U.S. Energy Department as part of the department’s share of the federal stimulus recovery package

Suva, Fiji: The United States has taken a swipe at Fiji’s troubled governance and Frank Bainimarama’s  failure to hold democratic elections more than two years after staging a coup.