Pacific
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Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say.
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The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season formed far from land on Wednesday.
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The 2020 West Pacific typhoon season is off to a slow start. It took until May 12 for the first named storm of the year—Vongfong—to form.
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Australia will spend A$1.1 billion ($725.9 million) to upgrade an airbase in the country's tropical north, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, a development that ...
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A strong earthquake struck near the Philippine city of Davao on Sunday, killing a child, damaging buildings and causing several injuries.
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Taiwan Says China Is an 'Authoritarian' Threat in the Pacific
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Thousands of kilometres of underwater data cables connecting Australia to two of its Pacific neighbours has made land in Sydney.\
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American and Chinese officials have addressed a session at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu, just as regional leaders jetted out. The United States is not ...
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Wednesday, Aug. 14, arrive in Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific Island, to start wooing a region that Canberra fears is ...
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A Soviet-era message in a bottle cast out to sea has washed ashore 50 years later, but its recipient needed some outside help to overcome a ...
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For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the song of one of the planet's rarest whales.
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The United States and Russian navies are at odds over an apparent near collision in the Pacific on June 6. The US and Russian warships came ...
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The United States celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month each May. This year, the country’s capital is celebrating the rich culture and legacy of these peoples. ...
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SYDNEY—Australia will direct more foreign aid to develop the sport of rugby league in the Pacific, officials say, bolstering a soft power offensive against China’s growing ...
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Fijians will be allowed to work in Australia for up to three years, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Jan. 17, as Canberra expands a regional ...
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Australia’s former minister for the Pacific region, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, has questioned the centre-right Coalition government’s plans to increase investments in infrastructure in the South Pacific. The ...
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A teenager survived 49 days at sea after his fishing shack was torn from its moorings and drifted 1,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Details of ...
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SEOUL, South Korea—South Korean media report North Korea’s top diplomat says his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean to fulfill Kim Jong ...
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