Australia overtakes China as the Pacific's biggest lender, according to new Lowy Institute data.

Several Tongan women detail how they were lured into arranged marriages in China.

More than 300 foreign workers have been arrested as Timor-Leste cracks down on suspected scam centres in the capital, Dili.

Pacific leaders have condemned China's test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, just hours after Australia signed a new security treaty with Fiji.

El Nino weather system already being felt across the Pacific with predictions worse is to come.

The appointment of two Australians to senior positions in the PNG police force sparks discussion over how to improve law and order.

Locals are worried after parcels of what's believed to be cocaine wash up on remote islands in Fiji.

Coastal communities in Papua New Guinea stranded by pumice rock from an undersea volcano.

Guam might be a speck in the vast Pacific Ocean but it's geostratigic location and large US military presence has made it an attractive target for hackers.

Samoan authorities have frozen the bank accounts of a number of people it says are connected to the assassination of an Australian gang leader in Vietnam.