Federated States Of Micronesia

The Asian Development Bank has approved a total of $36.6 million US dollars in grants to help fund the delivery of low-cost, high quality internet services in the Federated States of Micronesia…

Women in the Federated States of Micronesia could be guaranteed representation in Congress if a new bill is passed into law.

The director of Pohnpei's department of health in the Federated States of Micronesia wants the state's HIV law to be translated.

Four Nepalese refugees who were stuck on Micronesian islands for nearly three years have found a new life in Sweden.

A Taiwan purse seining vessel suspected of illegal fishing was seized this month in the Federated States of Micronesia.

A regional tourism body says it's looking forward to the development of tourism in Melanesia after an agreement signed with the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

The United States Department of the Interior has announced the payment of $US31 million to the Compact Trust Fund for the people of the Federated States of Micronesia.

The president of the Federated States of Micronesia Peter Christian says access and regional inter-airline agreements are holding back tourism.

A court in the Federated States of Micronesia has ordered the government to free four Nepalese refugees who have been detained on Pohnpei.

Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau are part of an agreement focusing on building resilience for future El Nino events.

Ambassadors from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands are seeking information about their citizens who were shot by police officers in the United States in recent weeks.

Four Nepalese refugees who'd been detained on a ramshackle boat in Pohnpei for months have been moved to a house as they wait resettlement.

A lawyer in the Federated States of Micronesia says she'll go ahead with legal action to try and set free four Nepali refugees detained in Pohnpei.

Solutions are being sought to curb the illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing by so called Vietnamese "blue boats" on remote coastal and offshore reefs in the Pacific. Audio

Illegal unregulated and unreported fishing by so called Vietnamese "blue boats" in the Pacific will be the subject of a regional meeting to be hosted by the Forum Fisheries Agency in the first or…

Blowing up, burning and sinking Vietnamese "blue boats" for illegally fishing in Pacific countries and Indonesia has not stopped them coming, a fisheries adviser says.

Three Pacific Island countries now have visa-free access to Belarus for short-term visits.

Pacific Island countries are on track to eliminate the disease filariasis from the region in the next few years says the World Health Organisation.

New research has pinpointed the date construction started on an ancient abandoned city in the Federated States of Micronesia and could eventually help shed light on other societies in the region.