Nuku'alofa, Tonga: The Australian government has injected $7 million into improving the health of people in Tonga.

Sydney, Australia: Greenpeace has accused Australian supermarkets of selling unsustainable fish which have been fished in a way which harms other sealife.

Canberra, Australia: Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been allocated 650 visas for fruit picking in rural Australia as part of the beleaguered Pacific seasonal worker pilot scheme.

Canberra, Australia: The Australian Government has acknowledged some overseas students will be angry as it revamps Australia's skilled migration rules.

Sydney, Australia: Australian technology groups will install wireless access points across Papua New Guinea to connect it to an Asia Pacific research network.

Darwin, Australia: In Australia's Northern Territory, five men have been arrested after police seized up to $US45,000 worth of kava destined for remote indigenous communities.

Port Moresby, PNG: The biggest bank in Papua New Guinea has taken the unusual step of offering its own reward to help authorities recapture the country's most wanted criminal.

Canberra, Australia: Australia's Labor government should instigate international court action against the whale-hunting nation of Japan by the end of the month

Wellington, New Zealand: Air New Zealand is trialling a new direct service between Sydney and Rarotonga in the high season next year

Canberra, Australia: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday warned against the spread of a “coup culture” in the Pacific