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By Damian Kelly You know what is almost as good as an ice-cold Tusker on a 30-degree centigrade, 92 percent humidity day in Port Vila? Well… another ice-cold Tusker. But a close, third place is a fresh croissant baked to perfection, with adequate lamination, and the right amount of audible crunch.   That’s just what you will get when you step off the street and into Le Fournil de Vila (literally, the oven of Vila). The location is humble, but the food will transport you strai

Born and raised across the Pacific, Susana spent much of her childhood and teenage years in Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands, places where the beauty of island life meets the harsh realities of climate change. Over the years, she has witnessed firsthand how rising seas and environmental devastation have reshaped communities and legal frameworks.

Runway Bar sits at the end of the airfield runway on the island of South Tarawa in the Republic of Kiribati. Air traffic to this part of the world is infrequent to say the least.

In 2025 Pacific Legal Network (PLN) is proud to be celebrating twenty-five years since its establishment. This remarkable milestone is a testament to PLN’s commitment to building enduring relationships, and facilitating and developing true, regional legal collaboration. PLN now spans almost every Pacific small island state from Timor Leste in the West to American Samoa in the East, and just about every Pacific Island nation in between.

The COP31 forum, also known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, is the most important annual global climate change summit. All countries that are parties to the UNFCCC participate in each year’s summit, where negotiations about fair climate change solutions occur and progress is tracked on global climate change goals.