The Fiji Rugby Union announced the news this afternoon.

The country's highest-ranking judge found Toelupe Poumulinuku Onesemo guilty of bribery involving a voter on the eve of last year's general election.

An estimated 2500 pro-France supporters took to the streets in downtown Nouméa, brandishing tricolour blue-white-red flags and denouncing what they described as "second-class citizens" treatment.

Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the coalition government's National Referendum Bill to amend the 2013 Constitution is "dissuading" Fijians from participating in the democratic process.

The price spike comes just two weeks after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka assured the public that there would be no rise in fuel costs.

Public utility services are slowly being restored in Vanuatu's north after a big earthquake.

Tui Kamikamica, who plays for the Melbourne Storm, is recovering in hospital following his admission early this week for what medical staff said was a suspected stroke.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters will visit the Cook Islands on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Brown.

A round-up of news from around the region, including new Green Climate Fund developments in the Pacific.

Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu has defended the government's handling of the country's HIV crisis, saying initiatives have been put in place to "get this under control".

Papua New Guineans are being urged to heed weather and marine alerts before going to sea

Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele says he will respect the outcome of a judicial review into the country's political standoff which starts at 9:30am in Honiara on Tuesday.

The resumption of direct flights between the Northern Mariana Islands and the Philippines is being framed as more than just a tourism boost.

Former South Sydney and St George Illawarra halfback Willie Peters has been given the job.

Both sides, alongside New Zealand, made up the three Oceania Football Confederation teams in action during the FIFA Series fixtures this year.

The US Geological Survey reports the 7.3 quake hit 35 kilometres northeast of Luganville, around 7:45pm Monday local time.

A University of PNG lecturer says the firearms buyback initiative "can lower immediate threats", but "it alone would not automatically address the underlying drivers of law and order issues".

The Marshall Islands has declared a 90-day state of economic emergency amid a growing fuel crisis due to the United States and Israel's war in Iran.