The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

Denise Tatangis and her children in Mere Sau-wia, Nguna Island. Tatangis wants to offer homestay accommodation as another source of income.SUPPLIED / Sunday-Star-Times It's early evening in Port ...

DESPERATE parents of a missing Canberra teenager have finally made contact with their daughter Zoe Marshall on Pentecost Island in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu. The 18-year-old hadn’t been heard from ...

Vanuatu is a country situated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, composed of a chain of 13 principal islands and numerous smaller ones. It lies approximately 500 miles (800 km) west of Fiji and ...

On Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, villagers perform a daring tradition called land diving - jumping headfirst from wooden towers with vines tied to their ankles.

A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, damaging buildings in the capital, Port Vila, including one housing the U.S. Embassy. A witness said bodies were seen in the city.

Translating to 'our land forever' in the local Melanesian languages, Vanuatu is a small country consisting of roughly 80 islands that stretch 1,300 kilometres, with a population of just about 300,000.

Vanuatu is an archipelago with a population of some 315,000 people spread throughout 83 islands. The country has the highest linguistic density in the world, with 138 vernacular languages.

Some relief for Vanuatu, with Cyclone Lola now a tropical low. But it has left some pretty horrific damage in its wake. The worst I've seen is to this school on the Pentecost, about 190km north of ...

An elderly man is moved to shelter on the island of Pentecost. Photo / VN News These are expected to affect the islands of Penama, Malampa and Shefa in the next 24 hours.

An elderly man is moved to shelter on the island of Pentecost, in Vanuatu. Photo / VN News. A team of eye doctors and nurses in Vanuatu have spent a harrowing night hunkering down on an island ...

The Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department has downgraded Lola to category 3. But with the communications cut off, it was hard to know what the impact had been on those islands at this ...