Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands has worked hard over the past 12 months to improve slightly its poor ranking on fighting human trafficking.

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.

Reports from the Marshall Islands say only two high school students out of nearly 600 have scored high enough in mathematics to directly enter courses at the College of the Marshall Islands.

Island countries controlling most of the Pacific's tuna fishery are being urged to increase their profits from the trade further.

A health consultant to the Marshall Islands says a mumps outbreak in Arkansas State last year could be linked to the current outbreak in the Marshalls.

A mumps outbreak in the Marshall Islands may be hitting the country much harder than reported, according to the country's Ministry of Health.

A Marshall Islands-based fishing company has indicated surprise that one of its vessels was recently arrested in Kiribati.

A number of Pacific leaders have used the UN Oceans Conference to bring global attention to nuclear contamination and World War Two wrecks that have become environment hazards.

The President of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine has described the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as disappointing and confusing for those that support US leadership.

The Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen is to visit Taiwan's six diplomatic allies in the Pacific in July according to reports from Taipei.

Tertiary education in the Marshall Islands could be strengthened by a new partnership between the University of the South Pacific and the College of Marshall Islands.

The University of the South Pacific will open its new campus in the Marshall Islands.

A former hospital administrator in the Marshall Islands has been given a plea agreement dismissing 87 of the 90 criminal charges filed against him.

A scientist says further studies are needed to find out if people in the Pacific are being harmed by high levels of mercury.

The head of the Marshall Islands Red Cross hopes to fast-track his country's membership of the over-arching international federation.

A filmmaker whose latest production documents the toxic legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall islands, says the country's political scene remains co-opted by US interests. Video