Marshall Islands

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.

Twenty-two fishermen and a fisheries observer escaped with only the clothes they were wearing when a purse seine vessel sank off the Marshall Islands.

Nauru Airlines has announced it is bumping up its service to weekly starting the first week of January.

Two naturalised Marshallese citizens have plead guilty to conspiring to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a multi-year scheme to bribe Marshall Islands government…

The Marshall Islands had its highest-ever sustained out-migration over the past five years, according to a statistical report released earlier this week.

Preliminary data released by the Marshall Islands government from its late 2021 national census indicates rampant poverty in the north Pacific nation.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in the Marshall Islands this week to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

We have suffered the cancer of the nuclear legacy for far too long and we need to find a way forward to a better future for our people says Marshall Islands representative to UNHRC.