Marshall Islands

The World Bank has approved a new project to strengthen the climate resilience, safety, and livability of urban areas of the Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands is rolling out a major intervention in an attempt to help parents improve the health of their young children. A high-rate of malnutrition and growth stunting among children has…

Fuel prices hit US$7 per gallon in Majuro this past week, a milestone for prices of imported goods that have skyrocketed since last year.

Covid-19 testing of Marshall Islanders in managed quarantine saw the largest number test positive for Covid-19 since managed repatriation started nearly two years ago.

When internet systems in the Marshall Islands went on the blink in mid-March, it wasn't immediately clear what was causing the rolling outages.

The President of the Marshall Islands David Kabua says he does not want the Micronesia area nations to pull out of the Pacific Islands Forum.

Russia's Anti-Corruption Foundation has called on Italy to seize a superyacht owned by a trust company in the Marshall Islands as part of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

A new scientific report suggests that the radioactive element strontium 90 is a more significant contamination factor in the northern Marshall Islands than has been acknowledged to date by the US…

Micronitor News and Printing Company founder Joe Murphy moved the goal posts of freedom of press and freedom of expression in the Marshall Islands by establishing an independent newspaper that today…

Three members of the United States Congress have introduced a resolution to recognise the legacy of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands is today remembering those affected by nuclear testing in their country.

The head of the Marshall Islands government's National Disaster Committee is hopeful the government will adopt a reduced quarantine policy for people coming to the Marshall Islands starting next…

The president of Palau said the pause on Micronesia's pending withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum is the last chance for leaders in the south to set things right.

The Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Henry Puna, is set to leave the post after just 18 months to try and repair a rift in the organisation.

A Marshall Islands ship registry official has pushed back at criticism a US organization lobbed its way as part of the announcement that the US government is going to launch an "open" ship registry.

The Marshall Islands and the other Freely Associated States are key to US security but there's an ongoing and remarkable disconnect in the American political world.

A total of 218 Marshall Islanders were deported from the United States in the eight years prior to the country's border lockdown when the Covid pandemic hit in early 2020.

The teenage birth rate in the Marshall Islands is the second highest in the Pacific islands and has remained virtually the same over the past five years.

The problem of illegal fishing in the Pacific is far less than a 2016 report that estimated losses of over US$600 million a year.

The remarkable spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant globally appeared to play out for the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Palau in different ways this week.