Monthly Archives: December 2021

This will be the last post of the year and we’ll end on a positive with a global hit from the Solomon Islands!  It has a been a great pleasure to share the cultural news from around the Pacific Islands … Continue reading →

Journalist Jason Abel of the Daily Post recently reported that the The Language Service Department (LSD) based at the Prime Minister’s Office compound has officially launched its first official website in Vanuatu.  The launching of the new website by LSD … Continue reading →

Pasifika in New Zealand are being urged to take part in a survey, and share the importance and value they place on their own languages. The government launched the Leo Moana o Aotearoa Pacific Languages Survey last month – a … Continue reading →

Writer, Gordon Leua Nanau, recently wrote an interesting article for the Solomon Times about how Pacific leaders should look to Guadalcanal’s system of popo and supu diplomacy as examples of how to utilize local practices to address national problems. As … Continue reading →

Journalist Lindsay Nash wrote an article for the Pacific Daily News about a new book that was recently published… Stories have the unique ability to connect storytellers to listeners, writers to readers, people to their culture, and the present to … Continue reading →

The Samoa News reported that a strong support of women with Malu (female-specific tattoo), Laei a Samoa and their mothers from across the sea, was felt throughout the organic venue of The Tatau Festival 2021 at village Alega a few … Continue reading →