Pentecost Island, Vanuatu – In the slums of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, Chief Viraleo Boborenvanua awaits trial on bail. The middle-aged chief spends his days processing kava root, an ...

Vanuatu officials on Thursday ordered the complete evacuation of an island in the Pacific archipelago where a rumbling, belching volcano is threatening to blow.Boats were soon to begin ferrying ...

In 1995, I made the first of dozens of trips to the remote South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, whose name means “land eternal.” At the time, I was in search of kava, a plant used since ...

But the 14 branches of the Tari Bunia Bank, spread around the lush forests of Vanuatu's remote Pentecost Island, deal in a very special sort of currency. "I have come to make a deposit," said Vira ...