Marshall Islands

The US issued a travel ban against two members of the Marshall Islands parliament for corruption, the first-time elected leaders in this US-aligned western Pacific nation have been publicly sanctioned…

Minister John Silk says his country will not accept an outcome from COP28 that does not put the world back on track for a 1.5 degrees Celsius world.

The Marshall Islands domestic election result shows that as many as one-third of all members of parliament are likely to change when the body is sworn in during early January.

After months of back and forth negotiators from the Marshall Islands and the United States signed off on their Compact III agreement in Hawaii. Audio

It is the last country on Earth without a national football team. But for how much longer?

A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future metropolis. Audio

Scientists studying tortoise and turtle shells near the Marshall Islands have found they contain nuclear contamination.

The Marshall Islands fisheries authority has received an international award recognising its work to prevent illegal fishing.

The Marshall Islands foreign minister has criticised the Compact of Free Association memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed at the start of the year, calling it "not a dignified agreement". Audio

The United States Congress is demanding answers from the Interior Department about the status of a $US70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders displaced by American nuclear weapons testing.

Marshall Islands' parliamentary speaker says a lack of agreement on the US nuclear legacy is holding up the country's Compact Review negotiations.

The United States needs to accelerate diplomatic "catch up" with the Pacific island region in the face of Chinese competition, a US diplomat said on Friday.

The Marshall Islands is making use of a "maritime domain awareness platform" developed by a New Zealand company to identify suspected illegal fishing activity in the western Pacific.

The Marshall Islands government has been forced into making alternative air delivery options for everything from mail and medicines to fresh tuna and equipment for essential public services.

The Marshall Islands President David Kabua has issued a state of emergency declaration to overcome the problems caused by the grounding of the country's cargo airline by the US.

The European Union has placed the Marshall Islands on its tax haven blacklist, surprising government officials in Majuro.