The South Pacific is a rich collection of islands and archipelagos with a dizzying array of options for visitors. The easiest ...

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month so today we look at the Pacific Islands and the American territories there. One hundred years before Hawaii became a territory annexed by ...

The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

The Japanese government plans to begin subsidising long-term evacuation facilities in the Sakishima archipelago, at the ...

Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia were well-versed in boatbuilding and open-sea fishing. This research puts Southeast Asia ahead of Europe and Africa in ...

These islands were the first places in Remote Oceania reached by anyone, in this case inhabited for the first time by Malayo-Polynesian-speaking populations from islands in Southeast Asia.

A groundbreaking study reveals the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands, found in Guam’s Ritidian Beach Cave. It ...

Pacific island countries are disproportionately affected by global inaction. Rising seas are making some nations ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather ...