HONIARA: When Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip struck metal while ploughing his field, he discovered not a rock — but one of the many unexploded World War II bombs still buried beneath the Pacific ...

Eighty years after some of World War II’s fiercest battles, unexploded bombs still endanger communities across the Solomon Islands. The HALO Trust and local authorities are racing to clear tens of ...

Japanese and Allied forces waged a savage campaign across the Solomon Islands from 1942 to 1945, in which tens of thousands were killed. They left behind bombs now buried under homes, schools, ...

Reubenson and Martin Fugui have been boating around their island village their entire lives, but they'd never seen anything like this before. The cousins were on their usual morning boat run on ...

IT IS A 20 MILE WIDE STRETCH OF WATER IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC’S SOLOMON ISLAND CHAIN, KNOWN AS IRONBOTTOM SOUND. IRONBOTTOM SOUND WAS THE SITE OF PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL NAVAL BATTLES, ACTUALLY ...

From September 8 to 12, leaders from across the Pacific Islands region gathered in Honiara, Solomon Islands, for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). This annual gathering convenes ...

All around Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands and host of a regional summit, are not-so-subtle hints of donor nations competing for hearts and minds. By Victoria Kim Victoria Kim took taxis ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - China has exported its village surveillance model to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where Chinese police are piloting fingerprint and data collection to curb social unrest, ...

A group of researchers from the University of New Hampshire uncovered sunken World War II history. The group recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the ...

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The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become ...