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Over the past few months, fighting has escalated in a remote part of West Papua. Last December, the West Papua Liberation Army massacred at least 16…
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Fire season in Southeast Asia won’t reach its peak for several months. But parts of Indonesia are already being hit with forest fires and heavy…
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While politicians in the United States continue to focus on the partial government shutdown, in some parts of the world attention is shifting to upcoming…
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Internships are a way for students to gain real world experience as part of their education. But the value of an internship depends in part on a company’s…
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The government of Indonesia denounces a report that it used chemical weapons in West Papua as "baseless, not factual and totally misleading." A story in…
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Pacific News Minute: At Least 24 Killed By Rebel Group in a Sharp Escalation of Fighting in W. PapuaAt least 24 people have been killed in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in West Papua in many years. Indonesian officials described those killed as…
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Plastic and oceans are a bad combination. It’s a growing problem not only here in Hawai‘i but around the Pacific. And an event this week in Indonesia is…
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The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to help preserve a series of ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs at P?ka‘? Bay on the west side of O‘ahu. Other…
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Warnings from a UN panel this week about the pace of climate change are putting a new focus on the use of fossil fuels. When it comes to one form of…
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The United States, Mexico, and Canada aren’t the only neighbors working on Free Trade Agreements. Just a few days after taking office, Australian Prime…